The Honors College

Congratulations to all of the 2020 Outstanding Graduating Students! We wanted to take a moment to recognize the two Honors graduates among the group: Grace Smith, the 2020 class salutatorian and Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and Cormac Coyle, Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts […]

Congratulations to the five Honors students among the winners and honorable mentions at the 2020 Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium! This year’s symposium was fully online, on April 23-24, 2020. Students presented posters and fielded questions all in this new online format. Click here to read more about the symposium. 1st and 2nd Year […]

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2020 CUGR summer fellowship winners, and Honors students make up eight of the sixteen awardees. Undergraduate proposals will be awarded up to a maximum of $3,300 each. Funding is provided by the UMaine Office of the Vice President for Research and Maine Space […]

The Honors College at the University of Maine is proud to announce the winner and finalists of the 2020 John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition. The annual competition invites undergraduate students to submit an 8- to 10-page essay that focuses on ethics, and this year’s theme was “ethics and food systems.” Patrick Hurley won this […]

The University of Maine has named the Class of 2020 Valedictorian as Sierra Yost and Salutatorian as Grace Smith, both students in the Honors College. A huge congratulations to both Sierra and Grace! Sierra Yost is a chemical engineering major. Her Honors thesis focuses on the application of cellulose nanofibers as an alternative to plastics […]

We wanted to say a big congratulations to two of our Honors students who recently received some amazing awards. Caleigh Charlebois ’21 received a Goldwater Scholarship! This competitive national scholarship is given to undergraduate sophomores or juniors with strong research experience who plan to continue their careers with a Ph.D. Click here to read more […]

UMaine Honors students Ivy Flessen and Bria Lamonica are two of the 2020 Spring-Fall Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center undergraduate fellows. UMaine student Leela Stockley was also awarded a fellowship. Fellows receive $4,000 a semester for two consecutive semesters while they work on their chosen humanities projects and serve as humanities ambassadors to peers, […]

Honors Student Caleigh Charlebois was recently featured by UMaine Research, talking about her summer research experience at The Jackson Laboratory. Read more about Caleigh in the UMaine Research article.