Third-year Honors student, Allyson Eslin will work for Senator Angus King’s D.C. office from January to May of 2016, living in the heart of D.C. Eslin’s opportunity was made possible through UMaine’s Peter Madigan Congressional Internship program. For Eslin, the congressional internship represents an amazing opportunity to develop the skills she needs for her Political Science degree outside […]
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A number of Honors students were awarded fellowships and scholarships during the Fall 2015 semester. Honors students were given the Carolyn E. Reed Pre-Medical Thesis Fellowship, and Rendle A. Jones ’65 and Patricia K. Jones ’65 Honors Thesis Fellowship. Additionally, many thesis students were awarded a Charlie Slavin Thesis Research Grant. Honors students were also competitive in Center […]
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Honors thesis student, Cain Landry (music), wrote a letter to the editor, published in the Journal Tribune, about real food for the UMaine System. You can read the letter here.
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On December 10 second-year Honors students, Honors student mentors, staff, faculty, and secretaries joined together to answer the question “What’s next in Honors?” This year, the Second Year Convocation was held in Wells Conference Center, where students worked in small groups to talk about the benefits of staying in Honors, while having some of their […]
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The 2015-2016 INBRE research fellowships have been awarded to students in UMaine’s Honors College. This year 4 thesis fellowships worth $3500 each and 7 junior fellowships worth $1400 apiece were awarded for projects in biomedical and genomics research. Honors Thesis Fellowship Winners Margaret Pasquarella– Exploring the Mechanisms Involved in Paxillin Amelioration of Congenital Muscular Dystrophies in […]
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Honors Preceptor, Robert Klose was named the humor category winner in the 2015 USA Best Books Awards, for his novel Long Live Grover Cleveland. USABookNews.com, the award-granting online magazine features mainstream and independent publishing houses. On November 16, 2015 over 400 winners and finalists were announced in over 100 categories. Klose’s fifth book takes place at a ailing […]
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Honors and Political Science Student Ginger Kieffer was featured on UMaine News for her research on potato spuds. Kieffer, who was a fellow in the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative, spent her summer in Presque Isle “extracting disease-infested plants from the potato fields, counting stems and collecting samples.” She hopes to connect the […]
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Honors preceptor Stefano Tijerina will be the new leader of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, after long time leader Ilze Petersons steps down later this month. Petersons, a social activist, served as the group’s leader for two decades. Tijerina also teaches history and political science at UMaine and has been involved in local […]
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Samantha Jones’ art is featured this month at a Brooklyn, New York exhibit at the Amos Eno Gallery called “Rapture by Proxy,” through September 26. Jones is an Honors Preceptor who is fascinated by the dialogue between the urban and wild, pairing industrial and synthetic materials with a baroque temperament. The exhibit will also feature another […]
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On Saturday morning Honors residents helped pack 20,000 meals for Nigerian kids in an End Hunger New England meal-packing event. Students from Colvin, Estabrooke, Balentine and Penobscot Halls packed the meals in 76 minutes, breaking the 2014 record by one minute with fewer students than pervious years. In the event organized by the non-profit Outreach, participants work in […]
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