Sam is an entrepreneur and organic farmer in Milbridge, Maine who has recently created an organic fertilizer called The Green Kraken. Home Town: Langdon, NH Graduation Year: 2003 Major: Conservation Biology and Management Please tell us a little about what you are doing now. I produce an organic fertilizer made from invasive European green crabs. […]
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Home Town: Jonesboro, ME Graduation Year: 2022 Degree: Biology with a Wildlife concentration Job Position: Naturalist, Denali Park, Alaska Please tell us a little bit about what you are doing now. After I graduated from UMM in December of 2022 and completed my last interview out of the 15 jobs I applied for, I was […]
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This month our spotlight shines on Heather (Crouthamel) McCollum from Virginia. Since her graduation from UMM’s biology program in 1993, McCollum worked in drug development for fourteen years before finally realizing and following her dream in writing full time. Now Heather is a successful published author with 22 novels she has published to date. Heather […]
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This month our Alumni Spotlight shines on Olivia Streit of Lancaster, New York. Streit graduated in 2018 with a double major in biology and marine biology, and went on to earn a master’s degree in marine biology at University of North Carolina (UNC) Wilmington. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now. […]
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This Alumni Spotlight shines this week on Joe Overlock from Warren, Maine, who graduated from the University of Maine at Machias in 2006 with a major in Biology. He is currently working as a Fisheries Management Supervisor for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Tell us a little bit about what you […]
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UMM’s Alumni Spotlight shines this week on Aaron Whitman of Kittery, who graduated from UMM in 2011 with a double major in Marine Biology and Biology. Aaron is now a research technician at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now: Right now I am […]
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This week’s UMM Alumni Spotlight shines on Kimberly Bastille, Class of 2014, with a degree in Biology with a concentration in Fisheries and a minor in Marine Biology. Kim, is originally from Saco but is now living and working at Chipemba Village, Luwingu District, Northern Province, Zambia, where she is a Peace Corps Rural Aquaculture […]
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The Alumni Spotlight this week shines on Tyler Ham of Cape Girardeau, Missouri – formerly of East Millinocket – who graduated in 2014 with a degree in biology. Tyler is now a Fisheries Research Technician with the Missouri Dept. of Conservation. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now: Right now, I […]
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Today’s Alumni Spotlight shines on Sarah Castor. Formerly of East Machias and now living in Trenton, Sarah graduated in 2013 with a degree in biology. She is currently an advanced genotyping technician at Jackson Laboratory. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now: Currently I work at the Jackson laboratory, specifically working […]
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This week’s Alumni Spotlight is Steven Paul Tomajer of Howell, New Jersey, who graduated from UMM in 2012, from the Environmental Science/Wildlife Biology Program. He is currently a wildlife biologist for a private company in NJ. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now: I work for a private company in the […]
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