Students in the Spotlight

  • UMaine Grad Student Featured in Rolling Stone Glacier Story

    Posted September 23, 2010

    UMaine Climate Change Institute graduate students Leigh Stearns is featured along with her advisor, glaciologist Gordon Hamilton, in a Rolling Stone Magazine story about the accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.  Writer Ben Wallace-Wells spent time with Stearns, Hamilton and their colleagues during an expedition to Greenland.

  • Tim Garrity, Master of Arts in History Student Named Executive Director of MDI Historical Society

    Posted August 31, 2010

    Tim Garrity, a Master of Arts in History student whose focus is Maine history, has been named executive director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Garrity, who lives in Somesville, served as president and CEO of Blue Hill Memorial Hospital from 2002-2008. To see the full story in the Mount Desert Islander of Garrity's accomplishment, please click here.

  • Bess Koffman, Doctoral Student in Earth Sciences Featured in Bangor Daily News

    Posted July 23, 2010

    Doctoral student, Bess Koffman was featured in the Bangor Daily News for her research which focuses on studying ice cores from the  West Antarctic Ice Sheet.  The ice cores are 2,000 years old, and Koffman is searching  for evidence of volcanic dust within them.  For more information, please see the full story here.

  • SOREN HANSEN NAMED TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

    Posted July 7, 2010

    The Technology Association of Maine (Tech Maine) has selected UMaine Ph.D. candidate in marine sciences Soren Hansen as the 2010 “Technology Innovator of the Year” winner for his accomplishments as co-founder of Sea & Reef Aquaculture LLC, an Orono tropical fish company that seeks to increase the number of ornamental fish raised commercially as opposed to being caught in the wild. The award honors an outstanding technology professional who, beyond offering a specific innovation or achievement, contributes significantly to Maine’s reputation for maintaining a cutting-edge technology community. Hansen has worked with or received assistance from the UMaine Foster Center for Student Innovation, Target Technology Center and the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center in Orono. A recent UMaine Today magazine article discusses Hansen’s work. Additional information is available on the Tech Maine website.

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