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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 engagement. According to the organization, these students have developed positive community and campus change...

Students have new options to study abroad Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash In March and April, Georgia State’s Study Abroad Program offers multiple virtual advising sessions for students, which inform them about many related points such as exchange programs, scholarships, affordability and alumni opportunities. In the spring 2021 semester, the big initiative for studying abroad focuses on the “free passport initiative,” enabling Georgia State students who have never held a U.S. passport to get their first passport.   Laura Boudon, director of Study Abroad Programs, said: “This help...

The University of Maine has announced this year's 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 year's 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 toxicologists at UMaine, Jackson Labs, and Maine Medical Center.  She has been working on a rese...

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 studying a harmful toxicant, and Drew in the Advanced Manufacturing Center involved in 3D modeling and m...

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,”...