Student Center

Welcome to our new page just for students! Here you will find things such as student events, department events, classes that may interest you, clubs(round table), and student newsletters. You will also have the Academic calendar so you can keep up with enrollments, add/drop, and if you need to change/add a major or minor.

CLAS Departmental Senior Recognition Award (2024)

WGS is excited to recognize Aileen Campbell, both for her strong work as a student and also for her leadership role in the UMaine branch of TRIOTA, the national honor society for WGS. Through her involvement in a variety of projects, including advocacy and outreach to high school students about WGS studies, Aileen has exhibited her passion for WGS studies while helping to make TRIOTA far more than a credential for a resume. Instructors who have worked with Aileen also uniformly speak to her strengths as a student. Aileen is a math and WGS double-major and many of her instructors spoke to her combined skills in math and WGS methods and perspectives. A highlight in Aileen’s career at UMaine was her work in her internship in fall 2023 with the Penobscot Nation. As an intern, Aileen helped to develop a survey and interpret the data on their youth services program, all the while not losing sight of the human beings behind the data.

The WGS Program announces the Constance “Connie” Fournier Student Travel Award

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program has established a new travel award, thanks to a generous bequest by a donor.

The Constance “Connie” Fournier Student Travel Award will be available to all UMaine undergraduate or graduate students whose research, scholarship, or creative/professional work incorporates feminist methods or perspectives or addresses issues of equity and justice. This award program is funded by a donation from the late Constance “Connie” Fournier, a world traveler and educator with a passion for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

The award provides up to 600 dollars in travel expenses for conferences or other professional events to be attended this spring or summer.

You can find more information here.

Past Recipients of the Constance “Connie” Fournier Student Travel Award

TRAVEL DATES: MAY 11-29, 2025

FOR AN APPLICATION

CONTACT

Sandra L. Caron, Ph.D

Professor of Family Relations/Human Sexuality scaron@maine.edu – 207-581-3138

ABOUT THIS TRAVEL COURSE

This three week travel study program provides students with a broad international perspective on how other cultures deal with sexual and reproductive health issues.

We will visit sites in London, England, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Stolkholm, Sweden and compare how these countries deal with issues such as teen pregnancy, contraception, abortion, sexuality education, and public policy issues related to HIV/AIDS, sexual oreintation, and prostitution.

Special lectures, field trips and on-site briefings will provide the opportunity for students to question assumptions about culture and sexuality, and to learn from societies that have different solutions to similar problems.