18 students travel to Ecuador on medical mission through UNE's IMM(UNE) Club

Eighteen students, along with UNE adjunct faculty member Amy Maureen Peterson and nurse practitioner Mary Shepherd Rafter, traveled to Quito, Ecuador, May 13-22, 2013 through UNE's IMM(UNE) Club, taking part in a medically focused mission trip through United Planet.

When the students were not volunteering in clinics, they spent some time with children at a local school. Participants included: Sarah Elizabeth Hoover, Stephanie Anne Beeckel, Nathan Michael Elmore, Kristina Marie Michaud, Samantha Jo Frederickson, Hannah Jaclyn Pelkey, Brendan Michael Harvey, Teegan Nadine Baillargeon, Andrew Robert Emery, Timothy Allen Newell, Sara Marie Capobianco, Christina Jean Fields, Cecelia Ann French, Rachel Ann McGahie, Kaylee Michelle Pobocik, Robert Grant Belanger, Crystal Nicole Annis, and Tyler Jay Meunier.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.