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Zechariah Hoeft stands next to a piece of laboratory equipment as he explains his work.

Student Spotlight: Zechariah Hoeft

Written by Luke O’Neil, UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research Student Administrative Aide Meet Zechariah Hoeft, a senior Mechanical Engineering student participating in a research project developing a scalable method for coating cellulose nanofibrils onto paper to create oil and grease barriers specifically for food packaging. “The goal of our research is to apply this at […]

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Emilie Casey poses at a desk bearing books and three monitors showing graphs and data.

Student Spotlight: Emilie Casey

Emilie Casey came to UMaine planning to focus on geology, but after connecting with one of their professors, glaciology is becoming a much larger part of their academic life. “I came to UMaine with a bright passion for Earth Sciences, eager to use my resources and apply myself. I think my professor picked up on […]

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