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2021 Fogler Legacy Award: The Stimpson Family, Krystal Fogler Lavigueur, Rita Stimpson, Donald Stimpson

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The Stimpson family was be honored with the Fogler Legacy Award in recognition of four generations of distinguished University of Maine graduates. Family members have had careers in veterinary medicine and higher education, law, and other fields.

2021 Distinguished Maine Professor Award, Susan Collins, Hermant Pendse

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Hemant Pendse, an internationally recognized leader in forest bioproducts research, has been named the University of Maine 2021 Distinguished Maine Professor.

2021 Suzanne Kay Hart Alumni Service Award: Barb Brown Dalton, 1981, Bill Green, Barbara Brown Dalton

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Barbara Brown Dalton ’81 was honored with the Suzanne Kay Hart Alumni Service Award (previously known as the Pine Tree Emblem Alumni Service Award). Dalton has worked on behalf of the association’s Board of Directors, and as both president and a longtime correspondent for the Class of 1981. She is a faithful fan of Black Bear Athletics, an Honorary M Club member, Maine Mentor, a loyal donor, and a dedicated supporter of the university and its alumni.

2021 Bernard Lown Humanitarian Award: Paul Plourde, Bruce Levitt, Paul Plourde

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Paul Plourde ’73, ’74G, MD was chosen to receive the Bernard Lown ’42 Humanitarian Award. Plourde began his medical career in a private endocrinology practice and then used his clinical and scientific skills to develop new pharmacological agents to help his patients. He became an industry leader in the planning and development of a large study of the treatment of breast cancer. His scholarship and commitment led to the development of novel hormonal treatment of the disease.

2021 Rising Star Award: Seth Albert, 2012, Jenny Desmond, Seth Albert

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Seth Albert ’14 is a co-recipient of the Rising Star Award. Albert, vice president for the UMaine Alumni Chapter of Southern Maine, has been a leader and volunteer, and worked to advance the mission and visibility of that group.

2021 Spirit Of Maine Achievement Award: Ernest Scheyder, 2006, Emily Cain, Ernest Scheyder

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The Spirit of Maine Achievement Award winner is Ernest Scheyder ’06, a journalist at Reuters. Scheyder’s work focuses on transportation and the energy industry. He has also covered national stories, including the 2020 Presidential campaign, Dakota Access Pipeline, Sandy Hook massacre, and Penn State abuse scandal. He began his career with the Maine Campus and the Bangor Daily News before earning a master’s at Columbia Journalism School and working for the Associated Press.

2021 Rising Star Award: Kristina Mctigue, 2012, Nate Wildes, Kristina Mctigue

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Kristina McTigue ’12 is a co-recipient of the Rising Star Award. McTigue, a first lieutenant and licensed clinical social worker in the U.S. Air Force, is vice president of her class and helped organize alumni events in Washington, D.C

2021 Champion Of Umaine: Jean Deighan, Leigh Ingalls Saufley

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Jean Deighan is the recipient of the Champion of UMaine Award. The award recognizes a non-alumnus for effective, longtime advocacy for UMaine. Deighan has been an avid proponent of the Zillman Museum of Art, and the company she founded provided free museum admission to countless visitors for several years. She has served as a member of the President’s Development Council, on the Board of Visitors, the Maine Business School Advisory Board, and volunteered in other capacities for the benefit of the university.

2021 Alumni Career Award: Hon. George Singal, 1967, Brian Naylor, George Z. Singal

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The Hon. George Singal ’67 was selected to receive the Alumni Career Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor. Singal has had a long, distinguished career in law.

Singal arrived in the U.S. as a young immigrant following World War II. He rose in his profession to become a United States District Court judge. In 2019, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Singal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court along with his District Court duties. In that role, Singal reviews and acts on government requests for electronic surveillance, physical searches, and other matters related to foreign intelligence gathering.

The 2021 Alumni Achievement Awards Recognition Ceremony, Jc Monahan

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“Common Threads” will be presented as a virtual event in a TV-broadcast style format similar to the popular television program, “CBS Sunday Morning.” Hosted by UMaine alumna J.C. Monahan, a news anchor of NBC’s Boston affiliate, WBTS-TV, each story will be narrated by prominent Black Bear alumni such as NPR’s Brian Naylor, former Maine Supreme Court Justice Leigh Ingalls Saufley, veteran broadcaster Bill Green, and Honorary Degree recipient U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins.

The event’s theme recognizes honorees’ individual accomplishments as well as their intertwined experience of attending UMaine, “the college of our hearts always!”

Floating Offshore Wind Project Webinar, University Of Maine Alumni Association, John Diamond, Habib Dagher

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Watch Dr. Habib Dagher, executive director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, for a May 2021 update on UMaine’s offshore wind program. UMaine is collaborating with New England Aqua Ventus LLC, a joint venture between Diamond Offshore Wind, a subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Corporation, and RWE Renewables, the second-largest company in offshore wind globally, to develop an 11-megawatt floating offshore demonstration project off the coast of Maine.

The New England Aqua Ventus offshore wind project is a critical milestone in the commercial realization of UMaine’s internationally recognized offshore wind technology that was developed at the Advanced Structures and Composites …