Noah Loveless, Sarah Penney and Matthew Ryckman are the 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at the University of Maine. Fellows serve as ambassadors of humanities for their peers, the campus and beyond. They each will receive $4,000 for two consecutive semesters while they work on their respective research projects. Loveless, from […]

The American Association of State and Local History has given the 2018 issue of Chebacco, the magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, its prestigious Award of Excellence for 2019. Many members of the University of Maine community contributed to this publication. The magazine’s three editors, copy editor, ten members of the editorial review board, and […]

We are happy to announce the selection of the spring 2019 cohort of Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows. The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows program offers junior and senior humanities students the support needed to concentrate on their coursework and develop research projects, work collaboratively with a select group of peers, participate […]

Our MHC Fellow Kim Crowley organized a panel discussion around her fellowship project, “The Personal is Poetic.” She invited professors Jennifer Moxley and Danielle Pafunda to participate on a discussion of the therapeutic usages of poetry. From Kim: “‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.’ ― Robert […]

For the second year in a row, the Mitchell Center has funding to support an interdisciplinary team of students (each with a faculty advisor) to work on food sustainability, and particularly, the problem of food waste. Last year’s team included students from Anthropology, Nursing, Food Science, Economics, and Environmental Engineering. This year, they are very […]

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the humanities with us at Bangor Humanities Day, 2019. If you missed it this year, not to fear! We have you covered with video footage on our YouTube channel. Thank you to our partners and performers–Bangor Public Library, the University of Maine Museum of Modern Art, […]

Have you heard the news? The McGillicuddy Humanities Center now has a YouTube channel. Subscribe and never miss a moment of select lectures, performances, and other Humanities-related content. Thank you for supporting the MHC!

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the 2018–2019 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is proud to help provide funding for the following fellowships, developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-mentored research. Each fellowship provides a $1,100 award for the student to […]

All University of Maine System students are welcome to submit their poems to the annual Terry Plunkett Poetry Contest. The festival takes place on Friday, April 5, 2019, where winners will be invited to read their work. The first place winner will receive $100; second place, $75; and third place, $50. Each student may submit […]