The Honors staff is excited to present our 2020 holiday card, inspired by Finding Nemo. 2020 has been a year unlike any other. Our advice? Just keep swimming! Happy holidays, from our Honors family to you and yours. We wish you a joyous holiday season and new beginnings in 2021.
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Maine EPSCoR recently published a feature on senior microbiology major and Honors student, Daniella Leal Espinal! Daniella is working with EPSCoR as a part of their Maine-eDNA research initiative, assisting with data analysis and organization for metabarcoding. Click here to read more about Daniella and her research work.
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Ashley Cray. Ashley is a first-year music education major from Readfield, Maine. Ashley noted her appreciation for the discussion-based nature of […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Aiden Ciaffaglione. Aiden is a fourth-year sociology and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies major with minors in political science and psychology. […]
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The Honors College is excited to announce our 2020-21 Honors Thesis scholarship and fellowship recipients! Rendle A. Jones ’65 and Patricia K. Jones ’65 Thesis Fellowship: One award of $2000; given to a thesis student focusing their research on exploring legal service in the public arena through the history of the law or current affairs […]
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The Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) is a National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health-supported network of thirteen Maine institutions, including the University of Maine Honors College. We are excited to announce the recipients of this year’s INBRE/Honors Thesis Fellowships and Pre-Thesis Research Fellowships. These fellowship opportunities […]
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Recent Honors College graduate Maura Philippone ’20H received a graduate-level scholarship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation). The prestigious scholarship, awarded to only two other students nationwide, is worth $5,000. The award will help support Maura’s graduate studies in speech-language pathology at George Washington University. In her time at the University of Maine, Maura studied […]
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The Honors College’s Feature Friday series highlights an Honors student every Friday and shares a little bit about their experiences in Honors and at the University of Maine. This week, our feature is on Kell Fremouw. Kell is a second-year engineering physics major with a concentration in mechanical engineering and minor in math. He is […]
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Food insecurity is all too common in Maine, even on our university campuses. Those experiencing food insecurity may experience difficulty securing other necessary resources, like personal care products. The Honors College Student Ambassadors want to address this need. The ambassadors are hosting a personal care item drive on Giving Tuesday, November 24, 2020 outside of […]
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The Honors College is excited to announce the 2020-2021 John M. Rezendes Ethics Essay Competition! All current undergraduate students at the University of Maine are invited to submit an 8- to 10-page essay that focuses on ethics, broadly construed. Papers on any topic of ethical concern are welcome, but our suggested theme this year is deconstructing systems […]
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