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Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 24 seconds. As CBS News has reported, “The browntail moth is a scourge in America’s most forested state, where it defoliates trees and causes a rash in humans that resembles poison ivy.” Fortunately, a Mitchell Scholar is on the front lines of finding ways to manage the white-winged menace. Sadia… Read more »

  A Warm Welcome for the 2022 Mitchell Scholars by Mitchell Institute on on Exposure

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 52 seconds. Like many college graduates ready to enter the job market in spring 2020, Noah Aube encountered an unexpected roadblock. Aube, the 2016 Mitchell Scholar from Cony High School, was on the cusp of graduating from Amherst College with a bachelor’s in computer science. His transcript featured Dean’s List… Read more »

Mitchell Institute President and CEO Jared Cash writes in the July 27, 2022, Portland Press Herald that “to fully understand the forces that are suppressing college enrollment nationwide, we need to look beyond the cost of higher education in terms of traditional expenses such as tuition, room, and board. Instead, it’s important to think more broadly about the true and sometimes invisible costs of earning a degree — and how this tally keeps higher education out of reach for too many Maine families.”

Got a question or two? A no-agenda meeting with a member of the Mitchell Institute staff could be just the thing for you. So named because any topic is welcome, no-agenda meetings provide Mitchell Scholars and Alumni with a chance to ask Institute staff a broad range of questions and learn about resources available to… Read more »