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West, DiSpirito earn Maine Campus Compact awards Bailey West, the University of Maine’s 2021 valedictorian from Stockton Springs, and Dominique DiSpirito, a junior from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, both earned the Maine Campus Compact’s 2021 Heart and Soul Student award.  The award, one of five administered by the Maine Campus Compact, recognizes six Maine undergraduate students who are actively involved in transforming their campuses and communities into environments of civic engagemen...

Methodology: How the 2021 Best Countries Were Ranked U.S. News Staff © (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) A globe with a surgical mask sits on the floor of the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, on Oct. 28, 2020, in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) Behind a countrys wealth and success are the policies that create possibilities, the people that drive the effort and the history that shapes the environment and perspective. Globalization has expanded a countrys presence ...

The University of Maine has announced this years top honors. Author: Hannah Yechivi (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 4:08 PM EDT April 8, 2021 Updated: 4:56 PM EDT April 8, 2021 MAINE, USA — The University of Maine has announced this years top honors.  Bailey West from Stockton Springs takes the top spot as the valedictorian, with the highest grade point average in her senior class.  West is studying biochemistry and has been doing research with...

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Biochemistry major Bailey West of Stockton Springs is the University of Maine 2021 valedictorian and mechanical engineering major Drew Bennett of Brewer is this year’s salutatorian. “We are very proud of these two exceptional students,” says UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy. “Both Bailey and Drew have excelled in all that they have pursued at UMaine and have made their own significant contributions as engaged students — Bailey in the laboratory as part of a team stud...

ORONO — Biochemistry major Bailey West, of Stockton Springs, is the University of Maine 2021 valedictorian and mechanical engineering major Drew Bennett, of Brewer, is this year’s salutatorian. “We are very proud of these two exceptional students,”...

Stockton Springs woman named UMaine valedictorian Mon, 04/05/2021 - 12:30pm Bailey West. (Photo courtesy University of Maine) Drew Bennett. (Photo courtesy University of Maine) ORONO — Biochemistry major Bailey West, of Stockton Springs, is the University of Maine 2021 valedictorian and mechanical engineering major Drew Bennett, of Brewer, is this year’s salutatorian. “We are very proud of these two exceptional students,” says UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, in a news rel...

Meher Babbar, a member of the William and Mary class of 2018, is also a member of the St Andrews class of 2018. Babbar earned degrees from both universities, splitting her undergraduate career between the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

Clubs and organizations: Honors/scholarships/awards: John Montgomery Scholarship for Music Merit in Vocal Performance, Lester & Dorothy Etter Scholarship, Alumni Council Scholarship and Dean’s List. Favorite book: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian and all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Favorite movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and Harry Potter and t...

Jane Lubchenco. Photo by Joy Leighton. The Annual Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture by Logan Cort 22 Jane Lubchenco, an expert on human and environmental interactions who served as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will deliver the 69th Annual Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture presented by Dickinson’s Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. “How to Use the Planet Without Using It Up” will be held on Wednesday, March 31, a...