The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine shared a profile of Brenna Jones, junior and Honors College student at the University of Maine, who is researching trends and proposing solutions that could help reduce homelessness in Bangor and beyond after experiencing homelessness growing up. “There are more financial and emotional resources and community in […]
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The Bangor Daily News featured Brenna Jones, a University of Maine junior and McGillicuddy Humanities Center undergraduate research fellow, who is studying the housing crisis in the greater Bangor area and possible solutions. In addition to finding policy solutions to address the problem, Jones, who spent her high school years both unhoused and precariously housed, […]
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The Mount Desert Islander promoted a talk by Robert Klose, professor in the University of Maine Honors College, about his experiences as a single adoptive father attempting a second international adoption in the shadow of 9/11 on April 20 at 7 p.m. at the Jesup Memorial Library.
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The Maine Days food drive will accept donations April 17–24, with collection locations in buildings across campus. The drive will be conducted in lieu of the Maine Day Meal Packout. The food collected will be distributed to food banks across several counties in Maine, as well as to the Black Bear Exchange. Sign up for […]
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Brenna Jones of Mount Desert, Maine, spent her high school years either unhoused or precariously housed in the greater Bangor area with little to no support from adults. At times, she lived in her car, in which she kept all of her belongings; couch-surfed or slept in dorm rooms at Husson University. She kept food […]
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Twelve undergraduates have been named 2023 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Read their short biographies: Mille Baartvedt Mille Baartvedt of Oslo, Norway is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The kinesiology and physical education major is a Presidential Scholar. On campus, she has worked […]
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Elaine Thomas of Hampden, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Honors College. She is a business administration major in management with a minor in music. The Honors College student received the 2022 John M. Rezendes Ethics Award for her first-place essay: “When We Cannot Care for Ourselves: Ethics, Interdependence, and the Moral Danger […]
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Darren Ranco has spent his life determining how to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous people protect the land they inhabit. Through his work as an anthropologist and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, Ranco has studied tribal sovereignty, cultural resource protection, environmental justice and ways Native American communities can resist environmental destruction. […]
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Established in 1935, the University of Maine Honors College is one of the oldest continuously running honors programs in the U.S. Its students, who are among the top undergraduates at UMaine, explore texts, ideas, the arts and current events through an interdisciplinary lens in an academically rigorous environment. Their class sizes are small and emphasize […]
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Rob Glover, associate professor of political science, and Jordan LaBouff, associate professor of psychology, both at the University of Maine and the Honors College, will present a webinar, “Understanding Poll Workers, the Unsung Heroes of Our American Democracy” on March 31, noon–1 p.m. with Maine Conservation Voters. Glover, LaBouff and Carrie Levan, assistant professor of […]
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