Honors College

Cameron Spicer

Cameron Spicer: Outstanding Graduating Student

Cameron Spicer of Erie, Colorado is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Maine Business School. He will receive two bachelor’s degrees in financial economics and in business administration in finance. Spicer is a defenseman on the men’s ice hockey team. The Eagle Scout and Presidential Scholar received a Lavery Scholarship and Dale Lick Academic Achievement […]

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Iaryna Iasenytska

Iaryna Iasenytska: Outstanding Graduating International Student

Iaryna Iasenytska of Kyiv, Ukraine is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the Honors College. She is an international affairs major with a concentration in international security, with minors in Spanish and in legal studies. Her honors thesis is “One-Eyed Man and the Wicked Boar.” Last year, Iasenytska was a research assistant with the Marine […]

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Miranda Snyder

Miranda Snyder: Outstanding Graduating Student

Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The secondary education major with a concentration in English received highest honors for her thesis completed in December, “How Alumnae of a Middle and High School Feminist Organizations Perceive Their Involvement Related to Their Academic Self-Concept.” Snyder […]

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Caroline Strolic

Caroline Strolic: Outstanding Graduating Student

Caroline Strolic of Phoenix, Arizona is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is an honors student majoring in art history with a minor in history. A member of the women’s swimming and diving team, Strolic has been team captain for the past two years, and a member of […]

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Honors student’s art installation documents pandemic

An art installation mounted in the trees between the Memorial Union and Raymond H. Fogler Library documents life in the pandemic and highlights the way our lives have changed over the last year.  University of Maine Honors student Emily Kontio gathered photos and quotes from more than 50 individuals around the globe in an effort […]

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News Center interviews 2021 Valedictorian, Salutatorian

News Center Maine interviewed University of Maine 2021 Valedictorian Bailey West and Salutatorian Drew Bennett. “So this summer, I’ll be at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor for their summer student program, conducting research and then in the fall I’ll be attending the John Hopkins University School of Medicine for their Ph.D. program in pathobiology,” […]

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WVII speaks with Abedi in promoting Maine Impact Week

WVII (Channel 7) talked with Ali Abedi, University of Maine associate vice president for research, in a report about Maine Impact Week activities at UMaine. More information about those activities, which highlight the research, outreach and scholarly impact of UMaine faculty, staff and students, is online. The Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal, Centralmaine.com and the Penobscot […]

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Bailey West

Bailey West: UMaine 2021 Valedictorian and Outstanding Graduating Student

Bailey West of Stockton Springs is the 2021 Valedictorian and the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and in the Honors College. The biochemistry major and honors student is a Maine Top Scholar.  Her numerous honors include the 2021 Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Research Award and the George J. […]

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