The Honors College

The Honors College is excited to announce that François Amar has been selected as the Dean of the Honors College! François, Associate Professor of Chemistry and current chair of the Chemistry Department has been a long-time member of the UMaine community and the Honors College. In chemistry, François’ research interests include structure and reaction dynamics […]

Please join us Wednesday, 24 October 2012 for the Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture on Navigating Entrepreneurship and the Humanities by Dr. Kristen Gwinn-Becker ’97. For more information please view our poster.

Congratulations to honors students Rachel Binder-Hathaway and Kayla Peard for being named 2012’s Valedictorian and Salutatorian! Rachel Binder-Hathaway, is a dual financial economics and business administration graduate, who wrote her Honors Thesis on microfinance and the alleviation of poverty. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Bangladesh helping impoverished people gain access to microloans and […]

Honors College preceptor Melissa Ladenheim is one of three faculty members across Maine recently awarded the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The Maine Campus Compact, a coalition of 18 member campuses in the state, annually selects recipients who use service-learning and/or community action as an innovative teaching tool to engage students in civic […]

Honors student Margaret Burns was recently selected as the recipient of the Edith Patch Award for the undergraduate level. The Edith Patch Award is given each year to graduate and undergraduate women in acknowledgement of distinguished work that they have done while at the University of Maine and in recognition of their promise for future […]

The Honors College is pleased to announce that the 2012 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics Lecture will be given by the award-winning film and television screenwriter, director, and producer Robert Kenner. The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 19th at 3:30pm in Hauck Auditorium located in the Memorial Union. Kenner’s talk “Food, […]

UMaine Honors Students Theo Koboski and Alex Jensen were awarded appointments to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s 2012 Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program. This scholarship consists of two separate $8,000 scholarship (one given for junior year and one given for senior year) as well as a ten week paid internship at the NOAA […]

As stated in the UMaine news: UMaine student Erin Victoria Carter has won a scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Carter, who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology, hopes to get a doctoral degree in immunology or molecular biology, and her career goal is to […]