Honors student Jill Pelto, was the feature of a Bangor Daily News article about her thesis research. Pelto’s thesis explores effective ways to communicate science through art. Her main goal was to illustrate significant environmental issues while engaging people emotionally and intellectually. To gain inspiration and ideas, she researched and discussed a wide range of artists, past and […]
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CLAS—Honors Preceptor of Political Science, Rob Glover was named an Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) Faculty Fellow by International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University. The new program aims to create a nationwide network of university professors and researchers who directly involve their students in state politics and policy. Professor […]
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Third-year Honors student Isaiah Mansour was recently awarded a Maine Space Consortium Grant from NASA’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The grant will help fund Mansour’s marine science research on the respiratory protein of Abalone (a species of sea snail) blood, which exhibits many useful pharmaceutical qualities. Mansour will conduct his research through […]
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Each year, Honors students partake in a variety of off-campus learning opportunities, ranging from internships, to traveling abroad, and research. The Honors College gives these students an opportunity to fulfill certain graduation requirements through an Honors Tutorial Alternative course. This year, 18 students completed the course, sharing their experience through submission of photographs and reflective essays, […]
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Third-year Honors student, Allyson Eslin will work for Senator Angus King’s D.C. office from January to May of 2016, living in the heart of D.C. Eslin’s opportunity was made possible through UMaine’s Peter Madigan Congressional Internship program. For Eslin, the congressional internship represents an amazing opportunity to develop the skills she needs for her Political Science degree outside […]
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A number of Honors students were awarded fellowships and scholarships during the Fall 2015 semester. Honors students were given the Carolyn E. Reed Pre-Medical Thesis Fellowship, and Rendle A. Jones ’65 and Patricia K. Jones ’65 Honors Thesis Fellowship. Additionally, many thesis students were awarded a Charlie Slavin Thesis Research Grant. Honors students were also competitive in Center […]
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Honors thesis student, Cain Landry (music), wrote a letter to the editor, published in the Journal Tribune, about real food for the UMaine System. You can read the letter here.
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The 2015-2016 INBRE research fellowships have been awarded to students in UMaine’s Honors College. This year 4 thesis fellowships worth $3500 each and 7 junior fellowships worth $1400 apiece were awarded for projects in biomedical and genomics research. Honors Thesis Fellowship Winners Margaret Pasquarella– Exploring the Mechanisms Involved in Paxillin Amelioration of Congenital Muscular Dystrophies in […]
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Honors Preceptor, Robert Klose was named the humor category winner in the 2015 USA Best Books Awards, for his novel Long Live Grover Cleveland. USABookNews.com, the award-granting online magazine features mainstream and independent publishing houses. On November 16, 2015 over 400 winners and finalists were announced in over 100 categories. Klose’s fifth book takes place at a ailing […]
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Honors and Political Science Student Ginger Kieffer was featured on UMaine News for her research on potato spuds. Kieffer, who was a fellow in the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative, spent her summer in Presque Isle “extracting disease-infested plants from the potato fields, counting stems and collecting samples.” She hopes to connect the […]
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