The Honors College

Bill McKibben, the author of the 2014 Honors Read, Eaarth, gave an inspiring call to action in the Collins Center for the Arts on October 7, 2014.  The audience of more than 800 people included about 300 UMaine Honors students and faculty along with students from colleges around the state as well as many other […]

Honors student Christine Gilbert ’14  won the 2013 National Collegiate Honors College Top Student of the Year award in the four-year school category. An international affairs major with a German minor, Gilbert was cited for her strong academics, commitment to NCHC, dedication to service, and engagement with the Honors community. A link to the NCHC […]

We are pleased to announce that the University of Maine has named the Honors College as one of seven Signature areas of research and educational excellence. The College is known for its ability to foster the research and creative work of some of UMaine’s best and brightest students while providing a rigorous approach to the […]

A strong Honors contingent represented the University of Maine’s Honors College at the joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society Association for the Study of Food and Society, & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition in Burlington, VT, June 17-21, 2014. The six faculty members and four students who attended the conference are all […]

We are excited to announce a new exchange program between UMaine’s Honors College and Tembusu College of the National University of Singapore! This program has resulted in the teaching of a May term tutorial course, Hon 319 – Fakes and Forgeries by Tembusu College faculty member, Dr. Catelijne Coopmans, which ran May 19 to June […]

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate those Honors students and faculty who received awards and recognition for their outstanding work over the Spring ’14 Semester. Honors Students: Jennifer Chalmers ’14 (History and English) was the 2014 salutatorian Ariel Bothen ’14 (International Affairs & Anthropology) was the Outstanding Student in the College of Liberal Arts […]

The Honors College would like to congratulate Jennifer Chalmers for being named the 2014 UMaine Salutatorian! Jenn was a double major in English and History and wrote her Honors thesis on “Teaching Literature in America: Demonstrating Relevance in the Early Cold War(1945-1963).”  For more on Jenn and her time at UMaine, check out the UMaine […]

CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism The Honors College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), and the Department of  Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine invite applications for a full-time, academic-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning September 1, 2014. For a full job description, please visit the official job posting.