College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The Department of Psychology at the University of Maine is pleased to announce the establishment of the Glickman Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, made possible by a major gift from the Albert B. Glickman Family Foundation, with additional support from the University of Maine Graduate School. Developed in recognition of the fact that the health and […]

June 5, 2020 The killing of George Floyd has again made obvious the racism that pervades American society. His death revives the pain of so many other such killings. It occurs in the context of global crises — from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change — that are doing the greatest damage in communities of […]

While the COVID-19 pandemic has upended summer plans for many across the state and country, CLAS students and faculty are still finding innovative ways to gain valuable experience, put their expertise to work, and give back to their communities. For two graduating seniors in the Department of Political Science, that has meant taking their scheduled […]

Every spring, departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences meet to award scholarships to their students. Among the many scholarships offered each year are those named in honor of retired faculty. These awards honor the hard work and talents of UMaine students while serving as a lasting tribute to those faculty members’ contribution […]

University of Maine students Nolan Altvater, Hailey Cedor, Nola Prevost and Katherine Reardon have been named the fall 2020–spring 2021 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) undergraduate fellows.  Fellows receive $4,000 a semester for two consecutive semesters while they work on their chosen humanities projects and serve as humanities ambassadors to peers, the campus […]

The College of Liberal Arts honors the hard work and dedication of its rising seniors each year with the James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior Award. Named for James Stevens, a professor of physics and the first dean of the UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (then named the College of Arts and Sciences), the […]

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to recognize the accomplishments of its senior departmental award winners for 2020—those students whose names were put forward for consideration as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduating Senior, which was awarded this year to Cormac Coyle (Lebanon, NH). Brittany Kucera (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a […]

UMaine CLAS faculty from the Departments of History, Communications and Journalism, Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics and Statistics have been announced as 2019-2020 winners of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards. The awards, presented this year to Liam Riordan, Bridie McGreavy, Sam Hess, and Paula Drewniany, were established to honor faculty contributions in […]