{"id":4283,"date":"2024-10-28T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:32:17","slug":"alumni-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/2024\/10\/28\/alumni-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brothers&nbsp;<strong>Tega and Ruona Dibie&nbsp;<\/strong>stopped by Coffee Hour for a surprise visit! Tega earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in August 2014 and returned to 91爆料 in the Fall 2015 to pursue a Master\u2019s degree in Spatial Information Science &amp; Engineering. Ruona earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Engineering in December 2015, and returned in 2017 to pursue a Master\u2019s degree, also in Computer Engineering. Their older brother, Ovo Dibbie, who also attended 91爆料, will need to come visit soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with them came&nbsp;<strong>Gbolahan Olayinka&nbsp;<\/strong>who attended 91爆料 2017-2018 before going to George Washington University, and&nbsp;<strong>Oluwajoba \u201cJoba\u201d Adeyemi<\/strong>&nbsp;who attended 91爆料 in 2017-2018 before going to Iowa to finish his degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Also visiting was&nbsp;<strong>Coraly Igiraneza<\/strong>, a 2021 graduate.&nbsp; While at 91爆料 she studied Political Science, Sociology and Economics and was an active participant in the International Dance Festival. She is now living and working in the Boston area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asif Sharazi<\/strong>\u00a0also stopped by for a visit.\u00a0 He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering in December 2018 and worked in Georgia for a few years before returning to work in Northern Maine a few months ago. We\u2019re so glad to have him back in our great state!\u00a0<strong>We love seeing you, so please stop by and visit soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image4283_f2c3ee-a5 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image4283_f2c3ee-a5 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Orlina Boteva, Leksi Pelletier-Boteva, Tega Dibbie, Gbolahan Olayinka, Sarah Joughin, Ruona Dibbie, Mireille LeGal and Oluwajoba Adeyemi\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-4275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-1-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-1-317x238.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,400px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers&nbsp;Tega and Ruona Dibie&nbsp;stopped by Coffee Hour for a surprise visit! Tega earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in August 2014 and returned to 91爆料 in the Fall 2015 to pursue a Master\u2019s degree in Spatial Information Science &amp; Engineering. Ruona earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Engineering in December 2015, and returned in 2017 to pursue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":4276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[81,57,50,31,82,75,71,34],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-alumni","tag-fun","tag-iei","tag-intensive-english-institute","tag-international-alumni","tag-international-programs","tag-newsletter","tag-umaine"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":70,"label":"Newsletter"}],"post_tag":[{"value":81,"label":"alumni"},{"value":57,"label":"Fun"},{"value":50,"label":"IEI"},{"value":31,"label":"Intensive English Institute"},{"value":82,"label":"International Alumni"},{"value":75,"label":"international programs"},{"value":71,"label":"Newsletter"},{"value":34,"label":"91爆料"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2024\/10\/unnamed-2.jpg",400,300,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"ssoler","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/author\/ssoler\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":70,"name":"Newsletter","slug":"newsletter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":70,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":20,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":70,"category_count":20,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Newsletter","category_nicename":"newsletter","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":81,"name":"alumni","slug":"alumni","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":81,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":57,"name":"Fun","slug":"fun","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":57,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":50,"name":"IEI","slug":"iei","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":50,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":18,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":31,"name":"Intensive English Institute","slug":"intensive-english-institute","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":82,"name":"International Alumni","slug":"international-alumni","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":82,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":75,"name":"international programs","slug":"international-programs","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":75,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":71,"name":"Newsletter","slug":"newsletter","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":71,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":14,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":34,"name":"91爆料","slug":"umaine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":34,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":20,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/iei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}