Abstract submissions for the 2017 University of Maine Student Symposium on April 24 are now being accepted. The UMaine Student Symposium, a campuswide celebration of achievement in student research and creative activity, will be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor from 8 a.m.–6 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the […]
Read more
Brady Davis, a University of Maine senior in the Maine Business School and Honors College, was awarded a Mitchell Scholarship upon graduating from Freeport High School in 2013. At UMaine, Davis became involved with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions by way of the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative project, […]
Read more
The University of Maine recognized 2,298 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,714 are from Maine, 523 are from 31 other states and 61 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
Read more
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., members of the University of Maine community will pack an estimated 40,000 meals for distribution to local food pantries on Jan. 21. The project is a partnership among the UMaine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, Honors College and Office of Multicultural Student Life, as well as the […]
Read more
WABI (Channel 5) reported on a presentation made to the Bangor City Council by University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault. For her honors thesis, Thibault studied the city’s ongoing outreach efforts and assess how residents access information from the government. Working with the city, the political science major from Lisbon developed a survey […]
Read more
Effective communication with residents is crucial for many municipal governments, including the city of Bangor. Yet with many new tools such as social media and web-based communications, as well as more traditional methods, it can often be difficult to know what is working. This year, University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault worked with […]
Read more
VillageSoup reported Kathleen Ellis, who teaches English in the Honors College at the University of Maine, will lead a poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. The Triggering New Poems workshop is set from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 13–17 at the downtown museum. Participants will expand their range of poetry writing […]
Read more
Josh Roiland, a journalism professor and Honors preceptor at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. Roiland spoke about journalism, the presidential election and the recent surge of “fake news” articles that circulated on social media.
Read more
WVII (Channel 7) aired a story last month about a University of Maine journalism class and its efforts to cover the November election. Nearly 30 students in Joshua Roiland’s Introduction to Journalism course set up a newsroom and covered local, state and national election stories. Roiland is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication […]
Read more
Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News, titled “Here’s what Trump’s electoral ‘upset’ means for our major political parties.”
Read more