CASTINE, Maine—Maine Maritime Academy Professor of Marine Transportation Daniel Parrott, of Blue Hill, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to work at the University of Costa Rica’s new School of Nautical Engineering and Maritime Transport (Ingeniería Náutica y Transporte Marítimo) in Limón, Costa Rica. Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—Maine Maritime Academy was founded by Act of the 90th Maine Legislature on March 21, 1941. To kick off their 75th anniversary year, the Academy will celebrate Founders Day at the State House in Augusta on Wednesday, March 23, 2016.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—Master and educator, Emma Hathaway, has accepted the position of Bowdoin Captain at Maine Maritime Academy. Hathaway has had ties to midcoast Maine since she was a teen. She fell in love with sailing at the age of14 while on a three-day sail out of Rockport on the schooner Timberwind.  For the next two summers, she worked on the vessel as an assistant cook, and over the following 15 years, she would serve as a crew member on the Pride of Baltimore II, Spirit of Massachusetts and Niagara.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine – Maine Maritime Academy recently named 375 students to their Dean’s List for outstanding academic achievement in the first semester of the 2015-2016 academic year. Students named to the Dean’s List earn a grade point average of 3.3 or above on a 4.0 scale.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine – Maine Maritime Academy students, officers, and crew will depart Castine on Saturday, January 2 at approximately 10:30 a.m. on the Training Ship State of Maine (TSSOM) for a two-week training evolution to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The ship is due to arrive on January 8.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—Maine Maritime Academy’s annual Academic Achievement Awards banquet was held on Thursday evening, November 5th, to honor the scholarly accomplishments of students and the service of faculty.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—The Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum has awarded $5,000 in funding to Maine Maritime Academy to facilitate student involvement in replacing the deck of the schooner Bowdoin. The grant will provide Maine Maritime Academy students with the opportunity to learn and benefit from the hands-on experience of being actively involved in the deck replacement process.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—Caroline McNally has accepted the position of Varsity Sailing Coach at Maine Maritime Academy. Ms. McNally is a seventh-generation Castine summer resident and previous director, head instructor, and coach at the Castine Yacht Club.Read More…

CASTINE, Maine—The Maine Maritime Academy Board of Trustees will hold a regular quarterly meeting on Friday, November 6, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. in the Holmes Heritage Room, located at the Harold Alfond Student Center on the campus in Castine.Read More…

Castine, Maine—Maine Maritime Academy ranked #8 overall on MONEY magazine’s list of Best Colleges in America for Your Money released yesterday. The rankings are, according to MONEY, “…a value ranking that evaluates colleges on measures of educational quality, affordability, and career earnings to help families find great schools that are truly worth the investment.”

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