A strong Honors contingent represented the University of Maine’s Honors College at the joint Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society Association for the Study of Food and Society, & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition in Burlington, VT, June 17-21, 2014. The six faculty members and four students who attended the conference are all […]

We are excited to announce a new exchange program between UMaine’s Honors College and Tembusu College of the National University of Singapore! This program has resulted in the teaching of a May term tutorial course, Hon 319 – Fakes and Forgeries by Tembusu College faculty member, Dr. Catelijne Coopmans, which ran May 19 to June […]

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate those Honors students and faculty who received awards and recognition for their outstanding work over the Spring ’14 Semester. Honors Students: Jennifer Chalmers ’14 (History and English) was the 2014 salutatorian Ariel Bothen ’14 (International Affairs & Anthropology) was the Outstanding Student in the College of Liberal Arts […]

The Honors College would like to congratulate Jennifer Chalmers for being named the 2014 UMaine Salutatorian! Jenn was a double major in English and History and wrote her Honors thesis on “Teaching Literature in America: Demonstrating Relevance in the Early Cold War(1945-1963).”  For more on Jenn and her time at UMaine, check out the UMaine […]

CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism The Honors College, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), and the Department of  Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine invite applications for a full-time, academic-year, tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning September 1, 2014. For a full job description, please visit the official job posting.

The Honors College is excited to announce that François Amar has been selected as the Dean of the Honors College! François, Associate Professor of Chemistry and current chair of the Chemistry Department has been a long-time member of the UMaine community and the Honors College. In chemistry, François’ research interests include structure and reaction dynamics […]

Please join us Wednesday, 24 October 2012 for the Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture on Navigating Entrepreneurship and the Humanities by Dr. Kristen Gwinn-Becker ’97. For more information please view our poster.