The Honors College

Congratulations to honors students Rachel Binder-Hathaway and Kayla Peard for being named 2012’s Valedictorian and Salutatorian! Rachel Binder-Hathaway, is a dual financial economics and business administration graduate, who wrote her Honors Thesis on microfinance and the alleviation of poverty. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Bangladesh helping impoverished people gain access to microloans and […]

Honors College preceptor Melissa Ladenheim is one of three faculty members across Maine recently awarded the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The Maine Campus Compact, a coalition of 18 member campuses in the state, annually selects recipients who use service-learning and/or community action as an innovative teaching tool to engage students in civic […]

Honors student Margaret Burns was recently selected as the recipient of the Edith Patch Award for the undergraduate level. The Edith Patch Award is given each year to graduate and undergraduate women in acknowledgement of distinguished work that they have done while at the University of Maine and in recognition of their promise for future […]

The Honors College is pleased to announce that the 2012 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics Lecture will be given by the award-winning film and television screenwriter, director, and producer Robert Kenner. The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 19th at 3:30pm in Hauck Auditorium located in the Memorial Union. Kenner’s talk “Food, […]

UMaine Honors Students Theo Koboski and Alex Jensen were awarded appointments to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s 2012 Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program. This scholarship consists of two separate $8,000 scholarship (one given for junior year and one given for senior year) as well as a ten week paid internship at the NOAA […]

As stated in the UMaine news: UMaine student Erin Victoria Carter has won a scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Carter, who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology, hopes to get a doctoral degree in immunology or molecular biology, and her career goal is to […]

Sixteen students, five faculty members, and five Honors College staff members attended the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference held in Phoenix, Arizona from October 19 – 23. Students, faculty, and staff members participated in general sessions, roundtable discussions, and poster sessions as well as making time for forays into Phoenix and hiking in Sedona. […]

Celeste Lozier, a third year undergraduate student, was named one of two recipients of the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship for 2011-2012. Celeste is an Honors student majoring in English, with a concentration in Technical / Professional Writing. The scholarship, named after Senator George J. Mitchell who brokered the peace accord between Northern Ireland and […]

Five University of Maine students have received early acceptance to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine Track Early Assurance program. The students are India Stewart, a biology major and Honors student from Verona Island, Maine; Erica Hidu, a microbiology major and Honors student from Hampden, Maine; Leigh Johnson, a psychology major from Yarmouth, Maine; […]