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Dr. Rita Colwell
Dr. Rita Colwell is distinguihed University Professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus, Canon US Life Sciences Inc., and President and CEO of CosmosID, Inc. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water.
Dr. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government, nonprofit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She is a nationally-respected scientist and educator, and has authored or co-authored 17 books and more than 700 scientific publications. She produced the award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.
Previous Commencement Speakers:
| 2008 | John McKernan Former Governor of Maine | |
| 2007 |
Robert Shetterly | |
| 2006 |
Joan Benoit Samuelson | |
| 2005 |
Olympia J. Snowe | |
| 2004 | Leigh I. Saufley Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court | |
| 2003 | Henry L. P. Schmelzer President and CEO Maine Community Foundation | |
| 2002 | Daniel Wathen Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court | |
| 2001 | Congressman Tom Allen U.S. Congressman, Maine | |
| 2000 | Robert McAfee Former President of the American Medical Association, UNE Board of Trustees member | |
| 1999 | Susan Collins U.S. Senator, Maine | |
| 1998 | Richard MacPherson | |
| 1997 | Marvin Wachman, Ph.D. | |
| 1996 |
Olympia Snowe | |
| 1995 | Judith Isaacson | |
| 1994 | Rev. John Brooks | |
| 1993 | Thomas Andrews | |
| 1992 | Dorothy Cotton | |
| 1991 | Marie Gadsden, Ph.D. | |
| 1990 | George Mitchell | |
| 1989 | Andrew McGuire | |
| 1988 | Dr. David Matthews | |
| 1987 | Dodge Morgan | |
| 1986 | Douglas Edwards | |
| 1985 | Assoc. Justice Caroline D. Glassman Maine Supreme Judicial Court | |
| 1984 | Joseph E. Brennan Governor of Maine | |
| 1983 | Arthur Elliott Levine, Ph.D. President, Bradford College (Bradford, MA) | |
| 1982 | James Russell Wiggins Editor and Publisher, Ellsworth American | |
| 1981 | Honorable William S. Cohen U.S. Senator, Maine | |
| 1980 | William J. Caldwell columnist, Portland Press Herald & Maine Sunday Telegram | |
| 1979 | F. Stephen Larrabee, Ph.D. National Security Council | |
| 1978 | Benjamin M. Ziegler, Ph.D. educator, Amherst College | |
| 1977 | Honorable Sherry Huber | |
| 1976 | Dr. Elsa M. Meder | |
| 1975 | Dr. Scott Nearing economist, farmer, and author | |
| 1974 | Reverend Paul C. Reinert President, St. Louis University | |
| 1973 | Dr. Kenneth E. Eble | |
| 1972 | Dr. Richard Weigle, President Saint John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland) | |
| 1971 | The Honorable Kenneth M. Curtis | |
| 1970 | The Honorable James L. Farmer, A.B., B.D. Assistant Secretrary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare | |
| 1969 | The Honorable Frank Licht A.B., and L.L.D. Governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation | |
| 1968 | Mr. Edwin D. Canham Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor | |
| 1967 | Dr. Donald M. MacKenzie President, Park College (Parkville, Missouri) | |
| 1966 | Rev. Bernard Haring Department of Religious Studies, Brown University | |
| 1965 | His Excellency The Most Reverand Ernest Primeau, Bishop of Manchester | |
| 1964 | Dr. John W. McDeVitt Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus | |
| 1963 | Dr. Philip Lambert | |
| 1962 | Father Juvenal Lawlor | |
| 1961 | Rev. Edward V. Stanford | |
| 1960 | Reverend Msgr. Robert J. White | |
| 1959 | Mr. William B. Mahoney | |
| 1958 | Reverend Mark Franck | |
| 1957 | Dr. Harry Doyle | |
| 1956 | Reverend Kevin Kidd | |
| 1955 | Reverend Fernand Porter | |
| 1954 | His Excellency The Most Reverend Daniel J. Feeney |
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