University of Maine 2016 Commencement

Orono, Maine - The 214th Commencement at the University of Maine was held May 14 at the Harold Alfond Sports Arena on the Flagship Orono campus.

UMaine Commencement, held in two ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., was one of the largest graduation events in the state, with nearly 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students, including over 40 doctoral degree candidates.

The morning ceremony included the College of Education and Human Development, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Division of Lifelong learning, and the Maine Business School. The afternoon ceremony included the College of Engineering, and the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture.

Honorary doctorates will be awarded to two alumni: United States diplomat Pamela White, the former ambassador to Haiti and The Gambia, an Auburn native now living on Orrs Island, Maine.

Leonard Minsky, community leader and retired president of Superior Paper Products Inc., who lives in Bangor, Maine and Sanibel Island, Florida.

Ambassador Pamela White was the Commencement speaker for both ceremonies.

The 2016 valedictorian is Nicholas Fried of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, an animal and veterinary sciences major, with a minor in chemistry.

Connor Smart of Lincoln, Maine, the salutatorian, is a double major in accounting and finance, and is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Maine Business School. Both are Honors College students.

Also being honored were four faculty members in anthropology, engineering technology, marine sciences and political science.

This year’s Distinguished Maine Professor is anthropologist Paul “Jim” Roscoe, a world-renowned leader in cultural anthropology who is a professor of anthropology, and a cooperating professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and the School of Policy and International Affairs.

Howard M. “Mac” Gray, professor of construction engineering technology, will receive the 2016 Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; Neal R. Pettigrew, professor of oceanography, will receive the 2016 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award; and Amy Fried, professor of political science, will receive the 2016 Presidential Public Service Achievement Award.

School officials tell us Full video of Commencement 2016 should be available Thursday at:
https://umaine.edu/commencement/

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