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 […]
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Honors Dean François Amar recently shared his experience at the first Earth Day in 1970 with the Office of Sustainability for their Spring newsletter. While demonstrations took place all over the country on that day, Dr. Amar was present in Philadelphia where the celebrations expanded into a full Earth Week, with speakers ranging from politicians […]
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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 […]
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Congratulations to Melissa Garand ’19H as she was recently awarded a Boren Fellowship, and to current Honors student Marco D’Amato ’22 who has been chosen as an alternate for a Boren scholarship! The Boren Awards are highly competitive national scholarships that fund the intensive study of language and culture abroad by U.S. undergraduate or graduate […]
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Each year the Honors College Student Advisory Board at the University of Maine hosts the Maine Day Meal Packout (MDMP). This year’s event, which was slated to pack 75,000 meals, had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When The Outreach Program, the Massachusetts-based organization that supplies the food and runs the packout, offered […]
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Recent Honors graduate Kyle Lima ’19H had a version of his Honors thesis published on The Condor this past week. The Condor: Ornithological Applications is a peer-reviewed journal from the American Ornithological Society that focuses on the conservation and management of birds. The work as published is titled “Environmental conditions and call-broadcast influence detection of […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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On Friday, March 13, University of Maine students banded together to throw their own commencement, as they learned their commencement likely wouldn’t be possible due to the impact of COVID-19. They dubbed the event “Coronamencement” and it was covered in both the New York Times and the Bangor Daily News. The event was initiated by […]
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