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NCHC Conference
New Orleans 2004!
Our group was the second largest group at the conference and
consisted of 24 students, 5 faculty members, and 4 staff members -- we have Bill
and Betsy Leitch and their Fund for Student Travel and Research to thank for the
tremendous student cohort! [And I have a list of jealous Honors directors and
deans!]
Current and former Honors College Associates Jonathan Beever '03, Sarah Paul '02, and Jenny Saucier '04
presented Instant Credibility: Honors Associates Bridge the Gap where
they described the history and work of our Honors College Associates.
Amaranta Ruiz-Nelson '04 (business and new media) presented A Mexican in
the Classroom: A Non-Traditional Experience. Charlie Slavin, Dean, presented
on and moderated a panel of Honors administrators, Academic Bridges: Faculty
Educating Outside Their Disciplines. Jonathan Beever and Charlie
Slavin presented Digital Currents: Promise or Peril? describing the
introduction of CD-ROMs into all of our first- and second-year classes. Laura
Dowd '05 (biology), Seth Robertson '06 (microbiology), Lauren Wahl
'06 (marine science), and Alia Whitehead '06 (microbiology) presented
The Culture of Research: An Immersion where they discussed the intensive
two-week Spring Break tutorial we have offered recently at Mount Desert Island
Biological Laboratory. Four Honors faculty members, Chris Mares
(Intensive English Institute), Kathleen Ellis (English), Francois Amar
(chemistry), and Mark Haggerty (economics) presented an overview of the
curriculum development work that went into designing our four-semester
Civilizations sequence in which 25+ faculty are involved. Their title was
Bridging Cultures in Curriculum Development. Chris Mares also
presented Bridging Personal Growth and Intellectual Development where he
discussed some of his classroom techniques and philosophies. Hazel Groce
'07 (International Affairs) and Rachel Lombardi '07 (history) represented
us in the annual Student Fishbowl, the student-centered discussion of Honors
education sponsored by the Committee on Teaching and Learning. Sarah Nichols
'05 (music education) participated in the Music Master Class and the Master
Class Performance.
Several UMaine groups took part in the idea exchange on Saturday morning.
Bryan Lescord '04 (philosophy) and Julia McGuire '06 (ecology and
environmental science) discussed their participation in a Center for Teaching
Excellence learning circle focused on Exploring Undergraduate Research.
Jonathan Beever and Sarah Paul presented their work on Minerva:
A Publication of the University of Maine Honors College. Andrea Pelletier
'05 (biology) and Autumn Demaine '05 (anthropology and psychology)
gathered information from other institutions at their table entitled We're
Glad You're Here, But Can We Send You Away? A Mini-survey. Patricia Barry
'07 (French), Amber Rice '07 (ACE), Michelle Ouellette '06
(psychology), and Coordinator of Student Academic Services Barbara Ouellette
discussed the interactions of The ACE Program in the Honors College at UMaine.
Robin Arnold '06 (earth sciences), Jason Houle '05 (sociology),
Adam Jones '06 (history), and James Redstone '06 (history) discussed
their experiences choosing and using the Honors Read in Does the UMaine
Honors Read Make a Difference? Michelle Ouellette and faculty member
Randy Alford (biological sciences) explored some new initiatives in the
Honors College through Bridging the Science/Humanities Gap: The Challenge
Ahead.
Eight students presented posters:
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Laura Dowd and Lauren Wahl - The Expression of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene on a Global Scale
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Heather McLaughlin '06 (psychology) - Perceptions of Female Competency in the United States and Northern Ireland
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David Paul '05 (engineering physics) - Superconductivity, Magnetism, and the Future of Space Propulsion
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Andrea Pelletier - An Investigation into the Effects of Research Effort on Both Observed Species Richness and Observed Relative Abundance of Vertebrates: A Study of Australian Mammals
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Jonathon Chance White '07 (journalism) - The Photographic Eye: How it Changes Perspective
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Seth Robertson and Alia Whitehead - Cell Proliferation Assays and Confocal Microscopy to Determine the Effects of Various Agents on MDCK Cells
In addition to attending conference sessions, the students also had the opportunity to explore the Big Easy. The conference gala was held at Mardi Gras World, where many of the floats for the Mardi Gras are made, and our group dinner was at the 5 O'Clock Grille on Bourbon Street—great barbeque and Cajun specialties!
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THANK
YOU!!!! Once again, all of us in the Honors community wish to thank
Betsy and Bill Leitch for their wonderfully generous and gracious contributions
to Honors at UMaine which enabled us to bring these 24 students to New Orleans!!!
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