Nicholas Fried of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, is the 2016 University of Maine valedictorian.
Fried majored in animal and veterinary sciences, with a minor in chemistry. This fall, he will be an MD/Ph.D. student at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies in New Orleans. He plans to become a primary care physician in a medically underserved community and conduct research in zoonotic epidemiology.
Fried’s numerous academic honors include a J. Franklin Witter Undergraduate Research Grant from UMaine, the Helen Louise Stinchfield ’18 Memorial Scholarship from the University of Maine Foundation, and the Inez Boyd Environmental Research Award from the Penobscot Valley Chapter of Maine Audubon.
