Mallory Lavoie, a junior majoring in Journalism and French and recent Killam Fellowship awardee, has received a prestigious $5000 Killam Community Action Initiative Award to fund a project she envisions – a French immersion summer camp. Mallory was one of three UMaine students awarded a 2011 Killam Fellowship Program award, and she spent the Spring […]
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Canadian-American Center’s Canadian Studies outreach coordinator Betsy Arntzen, collaborated with two other outreach coordinators to provide an impressive amount of Canadian content workshop and poster sessions at the 91st annual teachers conference of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), held in Washington, DC December 1-4, 2011. This year’s Canadian presence at the NCSS […]
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Canadian Studies professors of History, Economics and Political Science, and adjunct faculty of History with two Department of History graduate students and one Canadian-American Center staff presented their research at the 21st biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) conference November 16-20, 2011 in Ottawa. The Canadian Studies professors, […]
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Primary Source, a K-12 professional development center for Massachusetts teachers invited Canadian Studies specialist Betsy Arntzen to present the one day workshop “Canada and its Diversity”, October 20, 2011. Primary Source promotes history and humanities education by connecting educators with people and cultures throughout the world. Betsy’s program was especially for educators in grades K-7, […]
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Professor of French Raymond Pelletier collaborated with the Penobscot School to offer a French in the Woods French immersion language weekend, September 16-18, 2011, titled Français au bord de la Mer. The 52 participants included members of the general public and UMaine undergraduate students. The Penobscot School is a non-profit center for language learning and […]
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University of Maine Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled “Tangled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.” As a Fulbright student, Gee will study the marine resource areas […]
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Canadian-American Center Associate Director, Professor Raymond Pelletier, leads another successful Faculty French Immersion. This year’s summer institute was held in Acadia.
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