The Honors College is excited to announce our 2020-21 Honors Thesis scholarship and fellowship recipients! Rendle A. Jones ’65 and Patricia K. Jones ’65 Thesis Fellowship: One award of $2000; given to a thesis student focusing their research on exploring legal service in the public arena through the history of the law or current affairs […]
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The Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) is a National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health-supported network of thirteen Maine institutions, including the University of Maine Honors College. We are excited to announce the recipients of this year’s INBRE/Honors Thesis Fellowships and Pre-Thesis Research Fellowships. These fellowship opportunities […]
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Recent Honors College graduate Maura Philippone ’20H received a graduate-level scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation). The prestigious scholarship, awarded to only two other students nationwide, is worth $5,000. The award will help support Maura’s graduate studies in speech-language pathology at George Washington University. In her time at the University of Maine, Maura studied […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Kell Fremouw. Kell is a second-year engineering physics major with a concentration in mechanical engineering and minor in math. He is […]
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The Honors College is excited to announce the 2020-2021 John M. Rezendes Ethics Essay Competition! All current undergraduate students at the University of Maine are invited to submit an 8- to 10-page essay that focuses on ethics, broadly construed. Papers on any topic of ethical concern are welcome, but our suggested theme this year is deconstructing systems […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2020-2021 academic year CUGR fellowship winners. The fellowships include the CUGR Research and Creative Activities Fellowship, the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSCG) Fellowship, the UMaine Institute of Medicine Fellowship, and the UMaine Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellowship. The latter two fellowships were recently established […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Maija Overturf. Maija is a third-year elementary education major with a minor in Spanish. She is from Corinth, Maine. Maija expressed […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on James Greenwood. James is a second-year ecology & environmental sciences major with a concentration in environmental lab and applied sciences and […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Vanessa Bambe Cyuzuzo. Vanessa is a first-year civil engineering major and international student from Nyanza, Rwanda. Her favorite thing about Honors […]
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The votes have been tallied up — and the winners of the 2020 Honors College Talent Show competition have been chosen! Of our fifteen fantastic participants, these are the five whose entries received the most votes from the UMaine community: 1st place: Allison Ogle 2nd place: Tamra Benson 3rd place: Evelyn Zumwalt 4th place: Vinh-Nhan […]
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