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Canadian Studies faculty, grad students and staff presented research at ACSUS in Ottawa
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, […]
Read moreCanadian Studies outreach coordinator presented day-long workshop to Massacusetts teachers
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, […]
Read moreCanadian-American Center Associate Director Pelletier conducts French in the Woods
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 […]
Read moreCanadian Studies History student Gee receives prestigious Fulbright Award
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 […]
Read moreFaculty French Immersion in Acadia NS and NB
Canadian-American Center Associate Director, Professor Raymond Pelletier, leads another successful Faculty French Immersion. This year’s summer institute was held in Acadia.
Read moreHonors student Sarah Denslow awarded prestigious Killam Fellowship Award
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 […]
Read moreSurveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune
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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