Honors graduate, Jennifer MacDowell ’13 was featured along with another UMaine graduate, Valerie Smith ’13, in a Boothbay Register article about their experience with Maine Medical Center – Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track Program. An excerpt from the article written by Alan Crowell: Valerie Smith’s journey to medical school began in an ambulance at […]
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On Feb. 1, 2016 the UMaine Athletic Depart celebrated the 27th annual Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony. Since 1989, Scholar-Athlete Awards have been given annually to student-athletes who have earned a 3.0 or better GPA in the previous spring and fall semesters and/or have maintained a 3.0 or better accumulative GPA. 2015 Rising Stars were presented […]
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Honors student, Antonia Carroll wins Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize for her poem, Still Stirring. She was presented the award by Sarah Marx, director of the Wilson Center at the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration that was held on Monday, January 19 in Wells Commons. Her powerful reading of the poem, […]
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Going viral: First-year students get hands-on experience in phage genomics course Excerpt from UMaine News, Jan. 29, 2016 There is a long list of learning objectives for the HON 150/155 phage genomics course, in which first-year undergraduates conduct hands-on research. They learn how to purify and isolate novel bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacterial hosts — […]
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Many Honors students volunteered this weekend as part of an MLK Service Day food packing event. The students and other local volunteers packed 23,000 meals for local homeless shelters. Thier efforts were featured on WABI.
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Honors student Jill Pelto, was the feature of a Bangor Daily News article about her thesis research. Pelto’s thesis explores effective ways to communicate science through art. Her main goal was to illustrate significant environmental issues while engaging people emotionally and intellectually. To gain inspiration and ideas, she researched and discussed a wide range of artists, past and […]
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CLAS—Honors Preceptor of Political Science, Rob Glover was named an Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) Faculty Fellow by International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University. The new program aims to create a nationwide network of university professors and researchers who directly involve their students in state politics and policy. Professor […]
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Third-year Honors student Isaiah Mansour was recently awarded a Maine Space Consortium Grant from NASA’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The grant will help fund Mansour’s marine science research on the respiratory protein of Abalone (a species of sea snail) blood, which exhibits many useful pharmaceutical qualities. Mansour will conduct his research through […]
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Each year, Honors students partake in a variety of off-campus learning opportunities, ranging from internships, to traveling abroad, and research. The Honors College gives these students an opportunity to fulfill certain graduation requirements through an Honors Tutorial Alternative course. This year, 18 students completed the course, sharing their experience through submission of photographs and reflective essays, […]
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