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Ellen DeGeneres surprises student with a big gift
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| University of Southern Maine (USM) graduate student and Americorps advisor Ekhlas Ahmed was stunned to be featured on Ellen after sending the star a letter describing her immigration from Sudan to Maine. She was even more surprised when Ellen DeGeneres presented her with a check for $22,000, enough to erase her student loans.
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Engineers Without Borders brings change to Guatemala
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USM's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter recently spent a week in Villa Nueva, Guatemala. Eight EWB students and two professional engineering mentors completed a two-year project far ahead of schedule, installing five solar water heaters for the Hogar Rafael Ayau orphanage.
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Portland campus upgrades get green light from trustees
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USM's Board of Trustees has formally endorsed modernizations to the heart of our Portland campus, including a new dormitory, a quad and a bigger, brighter student center. "It's really about developing that sense of campus in Portland," President Glenn Cummings said.
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Professor Cassidy co-curating exhibition at The Met
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Art history professor Donna Cassidy will be co-curating an art exhibition by well-known artist and Maine native Marsden Hartley at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in March. In 2005, Cassidy authored a critically praised biography of the painter and writer, who passed away in 1943.
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Commencement speaker: NPR's Brancaccio
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USM is pleased to announce that award-winning journalist David Brancaccio will deliver the keynote address at the 2017 Commencement ceremony. Brancaccio, an Emmy and Peabody award winner and a Maine native, is the host of American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report, a regular segment on NPR.
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Sophomore student leader featured in Portland Press Herald
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19-year-old political science major Hamdia Ahmed was featured on the front page of the Portland Press Herald. The article follows Hamdia's experiences, from her birth in Somalia during a brutal civil war, to a refugee camp in nearby Kenya, to her U.S. citizenship and dream of working for the United Nations.
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Undergraduate admitted student events
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Admitted students are invited to join us for an event to start meeting future classmates and learn more about USM.
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Graduate School Information Sessions
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Learn more about graduate school and receive the help and support you need to take the next step.
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Take a tour of USM
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Visit USM to experience our close-knit communities on all three of our campuses.
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Merit scholarships
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Apply to USM by April 1, 2017 to be automatically considered for merit scholarships.
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