Honors Political Science graduate, Ben Goodman ’12, studied four major Democratic Party nominating process reform commissions over the 1970s and 1980s for his thesis. Last summer, FiveThirtyEight found Ben’s thesis online and asked to interview him about it. Through this, Ben ended up contributing to FiveThirtyEight’s “The Primaries Project” podcast series, which launched this morning. The new […]
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First-year Honors and Engineering Physics student Kell Fremouw recently qualified for the 2020 International Canoe Federation (ICF) Wildwater Canoeing World Championships and World Cup. Read more about Kell on UMaine News. Way to go, Kell! Our students do incredible things, inside and outside of the classroom!
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Congratulations to UMaine Art and Honors faculty member, Samantha Jones, and fourth-year Honors students Raegan Harrington and Brianna Ballard, on their first-place poster award at the 2019 National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Conference. Their poster, titled “Of Hand and Mind: An Artist’s Tools Applied to Honors,” explored alternatives in experiencing Honors texts through visual art. Read more […]
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Emotional Connections could be the name of the Art Exhibit currently on display in the Honors Center Colvin Hall, and it’s certainly what we want you to feel as you peruse the presentation. Our artist, Maya Silver, has told us about her work, “My work deals primarily with figure and form. It explores relationships and […]
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Congratulations to Honors students Emma Freeman and Annie Hanley-Miller for receiving the Servant Heart Scholarship through the University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism. This scholarship is intended to “benefit students who connect public service with their academic work and who apply practical solutions to real-world problems.” Emma is a senior Microbiology major […]
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Congratulations to Olivia Petersen, for her recent Dearborn Foundation Scholarship. Olivia is a second year Honors student studying Mechanical Engineering, and was recognized by the Dearborn Foundation as an outstanding engineering student. Congrats, Olivia!
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Patrick Pittis, a 2013 Honors graduate, was recently featured in UMaine News, discussing his journey towards a film career in Hollywood. Click here to read the article about Patrick, “For Pittis ’13, ‘Rubble’ could lay groundwork for Hollywood film career.” Click here to read Patrick’s 2013 Honors Thesis, “Staking Out Gender: A Poststructuralist Analysis of […]
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Third-year Honors student and marine science major, Brynn Yarbrough, was recently named a 2019 Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholar by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Click here to read more about Brynn’s UMaine experience. Congrats Brynn!
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Congratulations to Dr. Jennie Woodard, Honors Preceptor and Lecturer, whose work was published in the Spring 2019 edition of the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council for her article titled “The Power of Creation: Critical Imagination in the Honors Classroom.” Click here to read her article as she reflects upon the implications of a […]
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Christopher Gilbert ’18 recently had his Honors Thesis research published by Eagle Hill Institute. Congratulations!
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