<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/samantha-alaimo-marine-biology.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/25/2019</pubDate><title>Marine Biology Major Hopes to Foster Connection Between Commercial Fishing Industry and Policymakers</title><description>For Samantha Alaimo ’21, her lifelong passion for marine biology has taken her all the way from a small lake in Pennsylvania to a leading laboratory for marine science education, an opportunity made possible by devoted University of New Haven benefactors.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 25, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/arts-sciences/news/blog/2019/samantha-alaimo-boat.jpg" alt="Image of Adam Caress, MBA"/></image><image-caption>Samantha Alaimo ’21 took a two-week course at the Shoals Marine Laboratory in Maine over the summer.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>