Honors College Celebration
The Honors College celebration
Before commencement, all of the Honors graduates, their advisors, and guests gather to celebrate the achievements of our graduates. At the ceremony, after remarks and recognition of several special undergraduate award winners, the Dean recognizes each graduate, calling them individually to the front of the room while announcing their thesis title and a reflection from their advisor(s). Each student is then presented with their Honors Medallion, and the student is given an Honors Stein and an Honors graduation certificate.
2025 Honors College Celebration Awards
To be announced at the 2025 Honors College Graduation Celebration!
Outstanding Graduating Student in Honors
Outstanding International Graduating Student In Honors
Honors College Service award
Deans’ Award
The Honors Stein and Medallion
The Honors Stein
During the 1998-1999 academic year, at an early Student Advisory Board meeting, Molly Barker ’00 proposed that graduating Honors students should receive steins like the ones shown here. The first Honors steins were presented to Honors graduates in 1999. Since then, each graduating Honors student has been presented with a stein at the annual Honors Celebration.
They are hand-made each year by local potters and embellished with the Honors Logo, and 1935, the founding year of the Honors Program at the University of Maine.
The Honors Medallion
Medallions are presented to graduating Honors students at the Honors Celebration. The student’s thesis advisor bestows the Honors Medallion to them at the ceremony. Students wear their Honors Medallion at commencement to signify that they have completed the Honors Program.
At Commencement, the President of the University of Maine recognizes our students wearing these medallions and what they represent, instructing all students graduating from the Honors College to stand and receive congratulations from the audience and their peers.
