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Spring Fellowship Application Period Opens March 1

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 »

Bell Hits All the Right Notes at the Bowdoin International Music Festival

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 »

Twenty Additional Mitchell Scholarships to Be Awarded in 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes, 50 seconds Every April, the Mitchell Institute Scholarship selection committee faces a perennial challenge: how to select one Mitchell Scholar from each of Maine’s public high schools when there is often more than one worthy applicant from the school. “The quality of finalists is so impressive that the longstanding tradition… Read more »