Honors College

UMaine to Showcase Undergraduate Research Projects

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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Snowe Meets with Honors Students from Maine

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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UMaine Grad Stanton Delivers 2011 Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture

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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UMaine Accepted into Howard Hughes Medical Institute Initiative

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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UMaine Student Miss Collegiate America

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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UMaine Student Crowned Miss Collegiate America 2011

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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UMaine Singers Participate In Inauguration

UMaine’s Steiners singing group participated in Wednesday’s inauguration of Maine Gov. Paul LePage, the Village Soup reported. The Steiners are an all-make acapella group made up of UMaine students. House Minority Leader Emily Cain, a UMaine graduate and current doctoral student who works as an advancement coordinator in UMaine’s Honors College and represents the district […]

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Maine Today Media Profiles Cain

A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story profiled Rep. Emily Cain, who will become the Democratic House leader when Maine’s 125th legislature is sworn in this week.  In the story, Cain discusses her reasons for enrolling at UMaine, from which she earned a bachelor’s degree in 2002.  Currently […]

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Cain Elected Minority Leader

State Rep. Emily Cain, whose legislative district includes UMaine’s Orono property, has been elected minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives.  Cain, who is a UMaine graduate, is pursuing a UMaine degree and she serves as coordinator of advancement in the Honors College.  A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine […]

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Shell Hatcheries

You’ve seen plenty of bumper stickers urging people to save the whales. But what about the lobsters? In the ocean, lobster larvae have a survival rate of less than 0.1 percent in the first three months. It’s a wonder any full-grown lobsters make it to the trap, let alone the dinner table. Aquaculturists have tried […]

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