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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Ms. Sarah Denslow, a third-year student at the University of Maine, has been granted a Killam Fellowships-Maple Leaf Foundation Award to study at the University of Ottawa for the 2011-2012 academic year. An Honors College Sophomore, Sarah is majoring in International Affairs and French. She was awarded one of fifteen Killam Fellowships awarded to undergraduates […]
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Director Stephen Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas. […]
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TD Bank Financial Group has provided most generous sponsorship to the Canadian-American Center for an international conference on “Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast: Current Status, Future Prospects.” The conference is scheduled tentatively for fall 2011. The Center is most grateful to TD Bank for its support.
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On March 29th, The University of Maine welcomed Sheila Watt-Cloutier. Two events were on the schedule for Sheila, to which each event was a huge success. Over 80 students and faculty attended the Student Seminar at Wells Conference Center. The Q&A style session was attended by both graduate and undergraduate students. In the evening, over […]
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Stefano Tijerina, a current recipient of the Canadian-American Center Assistantship and Doctor of Philosophy in History April 15th, 8:30 – 10:30 am 48 Stodder Hall
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The Canadian-American Center is pleased to announce a new competition for Canadian Studies Course Development Awards. As a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center on Canada, the Canadian-American Center is committed to expanding the breadth and depth of teaching on Canada at the University of Maine. To fulfill that aim, the Center […]
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On March 29th, UMaine welcomes…. Sheila Watt-Cloutier Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and World Leader on Global Climate Change and Human Rights Sheila Watt-Cloutier changed the discourse on climate change; it’s a human rights issue. Sheila Watt-Cloutier is in the business of changing public opinion into public policy. Experienced in working with global decision makers for […]
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