Justin Martin, the UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, has a column on the Inside Higher Ed website about how college life is more like real life than we believe. Martin argues students’ college years can be liberating and exciting, but students also experience “a myriad of deadlines, limited self-efficacy […]
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The Weekly has a series of briefs about several upcoming UMaine projects and events, including a student poster session next Tuesday at John Bapst High School in Bangor to highlight local high school students’ research on mercury in watersheds. The students have been working with researcher Sarah Nelson of UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center […]
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ORONO — An art auction and sale by the estate of late artist and former University of Maine designer and illustrator Arlene Thomson is being held Friday, May 20 and Saturday May 21 to benefit the UMaine Honors College.
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The University of Maine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced winners of this year’s second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase held last week. Nine awards were made after consideration of more than 50 research projects presented as end-of-the year capstone exhibits or displays. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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Contact: Nancy Hall, (207) 581-2404 University of Maine undergraduate students will present more than 50 research projects all day on Wednesday, April 13 at the Wells Conference Center for the second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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News release from the office of U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) yesterday met with a group of students from across Maine with the Honors College at the University of Maine, in Orono. The students spoke to Senator Snowe about the academics and opportunities provided at her alma […]
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Bruce A. Stanton, a 1974 UMaine graduate who is the Andrew C. Vail Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of the Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School, will present a Wednesday Feb. 23 lecture at his alma mater. Stanton’s presentation, “Arsenic, a Global Public Health Crisis: How Safe is our Water and Food?,” […]
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, (207) 581-3262 or slavin@honors.umaine.edu; Keith Hutchison, (207) 581-2827 or keithh@maine.edu The University of Maine has been selected to take part this year in the Science Education Alliance, a national program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that seeks to develop resources for undergraduate science educators to present innovative courses and programs. First-year […]
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Shannon Folsom, a UMaine sophomore from Saco, was crowned Miss Collegiate America earlier this month at a pageant in Texas. Comments from Folsom, an Honors College student studying kinesiology, are included in a Bangor Daily News feature story published on Monday.
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Contact: Shannon Folsom, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine dean’s list student from Saco has been crowned Miss Collegiate America 2011. Shannon Folsom, 20, an Honors College sophomore majoring in kinesiology and fulfilling pre-med requirements, was crowned Saturday, Jan. 8 at the Miss Collegiate America Pageant in San Antonio, Texas. Folsom […]
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