http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors Just another UMaine Web site. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:13:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though the leaves in Maine had already changed, we drove 14 hours south and were able to experience the colors of autumn all over again in our nation’s capital! Twenty-one students, five faculty members, and 5 staff members attended the NCHC conference in Washington, DC from 28 October through 1 ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/11/20/nchc-conference-2009/ Third-year history major and studio art minor, Julie Herbert, was fortunate to spend the past summer interning at the National Archives – every history major’s dream job! [caption id="attachment_3265" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="National Archives, Washington, DC"][/caption] Where to begin? This past summer has been one of the best I have ever had! ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/11/12/study-away-reflections-julie-herbert-%e2%80%9911-national-archives-washington-dc-summer-2009/ During summer 2009, Financial Economics  and Business Administration major Rachel Hathaway ′11 interned at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The Grameen's mission "is to extend opportunities, not handouts, to the struggling yet hardworking masses." Rae's interest in the Grameen bank stemmed from Professor Muhammad Yunus's book, Banker to the Poor ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/10/20/study-away-reflections-rachel-hathaway-11-grameen-bank-bangladesh/ During the Spring 2009 semester, Yin Chiu ’10 studied at the National University of Ireland in Galway. Here's her reflection on that experience: Before my experience abroad in Ireland, I pictured a beautiful landscape of green fields stretching for miles, checkered with dry stone walls and spotted with sheep and thatched-roof ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/10/07/study-away-reflections-yin-chiu-10-galway-ireland/ Great news in the Honors inbox today: "Congratulations! Your honors newsletter won 1st place in this year's Faculty, Administrator, Student Published NCHC Newsletter Contest, sponsored by the Publications Board! We want to invite you to speak at our session, “How To Put Together A Winning Newsletter,” on Saturday, October 31, from ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/09/25/minerva-wins-nchc-newsletter-contest/ Honors College Awards First INBRE Fellowships [caption id="attachment_2477" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Erin Brunk, Chris Demers, Ankita Chowdhury, Ryan Whipkey, Becca Dyer, Katie Nadeau"][/caption] ORONO, Maine – Six University of Maine Honors College students recently were awarded the first round of Maine IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) fellowships to support their thesis ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/09/16/honors-college-awards-first-inbre-fellowships/ Honors Program alumna Bettina Boxall's thesis, written in 1974, is entitled, Some Notes on the Completion of an Honors Project On Fire From UMaine Today-- Alumni Today, Fall 2009 The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners in explanatory reporting are UMaine alumna Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart of the Los Angeles Times for their five-part ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/08/26/bettina-boxall-74-receives-pulitzer/ Engineering Society Names Fellow UMaine News ORONO -- Benjamin Gordon Freedman of Caribou has been awarded a 2009-2010 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the world's largest engineering honor society. Freedman, the son of Dale Gordon of Caribou and Jon Freedman of Bangor, will pursue a doctoral program in bioprocess engineering at Virginia ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/05/11/2009-graduate-named-tau-beta-pi-fellow/ Class of 2009 Commencement Ceremonies Held at UMaine UMaine News More information about UMaine commencement, including the text of the commencement speech and details about the honorary degree recipients, the valedictorian and the salutatorian, is online at http://www.umaine.edu/commencement09/. ORONO -- Encouraging graduates to embrace America's entrepreneurial spirit and to approach ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/05/09/alexandra-albert-09-named-salutatorian/ Two UMaine Students Receive Prestigious Hollings Scholarships UMaine News ORONO — Two University of Maine sophomores have received the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship. Samantha Bond, a marine science major, zoology minor and honors student from Temple, N.H., and Jeremy Bender, a marine science major and honors student ... http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/04/29/bender-bond-11-hollings-scholars/