The Honors College

Honors Minecraft: Defeat the Ender Dragon
2021-04-09 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Minecraft
Calling all adventurers! Join the Honors Minecraft Server Moderators & Honors Ambassadors for a battle at the end on Friday, April 9th at 8PM EST. The group will meet at Charlie’s Terrace in the server to distribute equipment and make the journey to the end together.
If you haven’t signed up for the Minecraft server but would like to join this adventure, register at bit.ly/HonorsMinecraft. All students currently enrolled in the UMaine Honors College are eligible to join. We’ll see you there!

Deadline: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship for Incoming First-Year Students
2021-04-16
The Honors College at the University of Maine invites applications for its new (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Scholarship. 5 awards are available of $1,000 each.
Scholarship applicants should be first-year, incoming students to the University of Maine Honors College with preference given to first-generation students. Successful applicants will be chosen by committee on the basis of the applicant’s work in support of diversity, equity and inclusion and/or their personal experience related to DEI. Students of all majors are encouraged to apply but must be accepted to the University of Maine’s Honors College at the time of scholarship application. Successful awardees will be notified by the Honors College prior to May 1st.
To learn more about this scholarship and to apply, visit: honors.umaine.edu/current-students/honors-fellowship-opportunities/dei-scholarship/

Rezendes Ethics Lecture: "Tribal Sovereignty, Social Justice, and Building Equity from a Maine Tribal Perspective" by Maulian Dana
2021-04-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Zoom
2021 John M. Rezendes Ethics Lecture
Maulian Dana, Penobscot Tribal Ambassador
“Tribal Sovereignty, Social Justice, and Building Equity from a Maine Tribal Perspective”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 3:30PM EST via Zoom
Zoom Webinar Link (no registration necessary, simply join the call at the time of the event):
https://maine.zoom.us/j/83868194924?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode (if needed): 03717

Maulian Dana Bio: Maulian Dana is the Tribal Ambassador for Penobscot Nation. She works to represent the Penobscot Nation and advocates for policy changes at local, state, and federal levels of government. She has an extensive background in activism in ending the use of Indian sports mascots and replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day, both of which have become Maine state laws. She is the co-chair of the state’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations; co-chair of the Maine Climate Council’s Equity Subcommittee; Board President for the Wabanaki Alliance; and serves on many other boards and organizations. She is the proud mother of two daughters.
Click here to learn more about the John M. Rezendes Ethics Initiative and past lectures in this series.

Honors Graduation Celebration 2021
2021-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
In order to keep everyone as safe as possible and in order to include all of our students, even those who are attending their senior year from afar, this year’s Honors Graduation Celebration ceremony will be held virtually on Friday, May 7th at 9AM EST. This event will recognize December 2020, May 2021, and August 2021 Honors graduates.
Zoom information has been sent via email to RSVP’d students.

2022 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics: ‘Self-Care and Radical Communion: Walking Each Other Home’
2022-04-14 15:30 - 17:00 | MCINTRE ROOM, 2 Alumni Place, ORONO, MAINE, 04469
Dr. Vaishali Mamgain (she/her) is the Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Bertha C. Ball Center for Compassion at the University of Southern Maine. Mamgain received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her past economics research has focused on the contributions of (im)migrants and refugees in the Maine economy, including the role of migrant workers in Maine’s blueberry industry. She teaches theoretical economics and classes like Economics and Happiness, the Political Economy of Food, and Practicing Nature, Deepening Compassion.
She is nationally known for her work in contemplative pedagogy, is on the board of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind) and has been faculty at the Summer Sessions organized by CMind. In her role as Director of the Center for Compassion, and as a core faculty member of the Courage of Care Coalition, she facilitates anti-oppression workshops such as the upcoming Radical Communion series that explores how we can, with all our intersecting identities, build meaningful communities of practice together. She specializes in using somatic and immersive nature practices to undo internalized oppression and the “colonization” of contemplative practices. She did a three-year retreat (2014–17) at Samten Ling Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, and now lives on an island in Maine where she can be found admiring seaweed, hiking, singing and swimming in the beautiful Maine waters.
