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The Mitchell Fellowship Program supports Mitchell Scholars and Alumni who are pursuing opportunities for professional and personal development. The purpose of the program is to ensure that Scholars and Alumni don’t have to decline or forgo special opportunities just because of a lack of money. The Institute annually awards approximately 50 Fellowships to Scholars and Alumni,… Read more »

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes, 10 seconds Grace Bell, director of admissions and operations at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, says she loves, “helping the next generation of young classical musicians in their artistic journeys and bringing people with a shared passion together to experience music.” Every summer, the population of Brunswick swells by more than… Read more »

Amidst all of the celebration at Fall Gala 2022 was a more solemn announcement: the formation of a special Mitchell Institute alumni giving society named in honor of Truc Huynh, a remarkably gifted and altruistic Scholar, who passed away at the age of 40 in mid-June of 2022. “At the time of his passing, Truc… Read more »

In the first episode of 2023, host Michele Martin, the 1999 Mitchell Scholar from Scarborough High School, catches up with Amarinda Keys, the 2010 Scholar from Noble High School, Executive Director of the Children’s Discovery Museum of Central Maine — and, at the time of her appointment — the youngest executive director of a children’s… Read more »

In the latest episode of the Scholars Speak podcast, host Michele Martin, the 1999 Mitchell Scholar from Scarborough High School, catches up with Sean Findlen, the 1995 Scholar from Fort Fairfield Middle/High School and now AVP and Head of Enterprise Communications at Unum. Listen up as Findlen, who graduated from Bates College with a degree… Read more »