Thanks to the generous donation of Beau and Dennis Rezendes, each year an honors student has the opportunity to attend the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) in Boulder, Colorado. This year, Jill Hein (International Affairs) represented UMaine at the conference. From Jill: “For me, CWA was an opportunity to learn about issues in international affairs […]
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Honors and Business Management Student, Brady Davis, recently attended the Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference in Cambridge, MA. Numerous colleges and universities around the region came together to present research and engage in discussion about pressing topics and issues around the globe. Davis presented on research he conducted with the Honors College’s Sustainable Food System Research […]
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Congratulations to Honors students Nicholas Fried and Connor Smart who were named the Valedictorian and Salutatorian, respectively, of UMaine’s graduating class of 2016. Read more here.
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Journey to Lesvos: Migrants, Volunteers, and the Unfolding of a Human Tragedy On Friday, February 12, Dr. Irwin Novak and Mary Snell presented a talk on the refugee crisis on Lesvos, Greece: Journey to Lesvos: Migrants, Volunteers and the Unfolding of a Human Tragedy. Speaking in Colvin 107, they recounted their experience on Lesvos this […]
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Honors graduate, Jennifer MacDowell ’13 was featured along with another UMaine graduate, Valerie Smith ’13, in a Boothbay Register article about their experience with Maine Medical Center – Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track Program. An excerpt from the article written by Alan Crowell: Valerie Smith’s journey to medical school began in an ambulance at […]
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On Feb. 1, 2016 the UMaine Athletic Depart celebrated the 27th annual Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony. Since 1989, Scholar-Athlete Awards have been given annually to student-athletes who have earned a 3.0 or better GPA in the previous spring and fall semesters and/or have maintained a 3.0 or better accumulative GPA. 2015 Rising Stars were presented […]
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Honors student, Antonia Carroll wins Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize for her poem, Still Stirring. She was presented the award by Sarah Marx, director of the Wilson Center at the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration that was held on Monday, January 19 in Wells Commons. Her powerful reading of the poem, […]
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Going viral: First-year students get hands-on experience in phage genomics course Excerpt from UMaine News, Jan. 29, 2016 There is a long list of learning objectives for the HON 150/155 phage genomics course, in which first-year undergraduates conduct hands-on research. They learn how to purify and isolate novel bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacterial hosts — […]
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Many Honors students volunteered this weekend as part of an MLK Service Day food packing event. The students and other local volunteers packed 23,000 meals for local homeless shelters. Thier efforts were featured on WABI.
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