Features:

• Sciences Being There Braving the North Atlantic to unlock the secrets of the spring phytoplankton bloom
• Education Why Not? Perspectives on why girls continue to be absent from the country’s STEM equation

• Arts and Humanities Mapping the Empire The 18th-century quest to map British America
• Education Sports Writers Olympians to high school athletes benefit from journaling

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Departments:

• President’s Message Meeting Maine’s needs
• Primary Source Hamlin’s values

• Scene on Campus Celebrating stone
• Alumni Focus Timing is everything

• Student Focus The race is on
• By Extension Bugs gone bad

• Insights Preparing for abrupt climate change
• University of Maine Foundation Immersion learning