Two Honors students have been named as finalists in the Maine Talent Showcase, an online talent show hosted by the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA)! The CCA received more than 100 entries for this competition. Now, the showcase has narrowed to ten finalists and the public will be able to vote for the winners! […]
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As the Spring 2020 semester has finally come to a close, we are pleased to announce our group of Academic Year 2019-2020 Honors graduates! Normally we would’ve had the opportunity to celebrate each of these graduates at the annual Honors Celebration event but, unfortunately, this year’s global pandemic prevented that event from happening as planned. […]
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Ferda Farms LLC, a business founded by UMaine students including Honors student Max Burtis ’22, was named a finalist in this year’s College Edition of Greenlight Maine. Greenlight Maine is a state-wide entrepreneurial pitch competition where the winners are awarded $25,000 to put towards their growing business. The ultimate goal of the program is to […]
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The Honors College staff is proud to announce Lauren Ryan ’20H as the recipient of the 2020 Honors College Service Award. The award recognizes a graduating senior in the Honors College for their outstanding commitment and contributions to the University of Maine Honors community. During her time at the University of Maine, Lauren studied biomedical […]
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The Honors staff recently caught up with Nicole McGrath, ’19H, who was a biology major at UMaine and is currently a fellow for the National Cancer Institute (NCI). She is the first author on the article “Targeting cancer stem cells in cholangiocarcinoma (Review),” recently published in the International Journal of Oncology. Can you describe your […]
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Congratulations to rising senior Honors and secondary education major, Tom Adams, for receiving the 2020-2021 George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship! The scholarship brings one Maine college student abroad each year to study at the beautiful University College Cork in Cork City, Ireland. While abroad, Tom plans to “pursue his passion for music and soak up […]
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The Honors students in charge of the Maine Day Meal Packout have successfully set up another delivery of meals from the Outreach Program to four Maine food pantries; these deliveries took place on Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22 with help from Honors friends, Sherrie and Dave Wight, and the Blue Knights Maine Chapter […]
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Honor Preceptor Bob Klose was one of a group of UMaine faculty and community members who have produced a new book all about the Orono Bog Boardwalk. The book is titled The Bog Walker’s Companion: A Guide to the Orono Bog Boardwalk. It contains a collection of 22 essays about the boardwalk, and Bob is […]
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UMaine News recently featured Honors student Betelhem Abay in an article where she discusses her important research to combat kidney failure and cancer. She studies biomedical engineering and is currently in the process of finishing up her Honors thesis on a related topic. Among Betelhem’s many accomplishments, this past fall the Honors College awarded her […]
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Katie Quirk, one of our Honors Preceptors, recently wrote an article that was published in the Washington Post about an exciting public art project her family started in her Orono neighborhood. Back in March, Katie and her family built a wooden sculpture to display and bring some joy to a bluff near their home. Within […]
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