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		<title>Study Away Reflections: Melody LaPlante ’10 (Sevilla, Spain)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Spring 2009 semester, Business Administration major Melody LaPlante studied abroad in Sevilla, Spain. Here she recounts her semester of cultural experiences, horseback riding in the Spanish countryside and provides advice for other travelers.]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/12/03/study-away-reflections-melody-laplante-%e2%80%9910-sevilla-spain/</link>
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		<title>Honors Students Gain Early Admission to Tufts Medical School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This article appeared on the UMaine News Blog, 24 November 2009.)
Contact: Kristen Andresen at (207) 581-3742
Two UMaine Students Gain Early Admission to Tufts Medical School
ORONO  — Applying to medical school can be a full-time job. But for two University of Maine juniors, the job has become a lot easier.
Microbiology major Jonathan Pelletier of Falmouth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/12/03/pelletier-11-perreault-11-gain-early-admission-to-tufts-medical-school/</link>
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		<title>NCHC Conference 2009: Washington, DC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 November. Trip highlights? Here are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/11/20/nchc-conference-2009/</link>
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		<title>Study Away Reflections: Julie Herbert ’11 (National Archives, Washington, DC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie Herbert, third-year history major, spent a summer at the National Archives packed with adventure!]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/11/12/study-away-reflections-julie-herbert-%e2%80%9911-national-archives-washington-dc-summer-2009/</link>
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		<title>Study Away Reflections: Rachel Hathaway ’11 (Grameen Bank, Bangladesh)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During summer 2009, Financial Economics  and Business Administration major Rachel Hathaway ′11 interned at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The Grameen&#8217;s mission &#8220;is to extend opportunities, not handouts, to the struggling yet hardworking masses.&#8221; Rae&#8217;s interest in the Grameen bank stemmed from Professor Muhammad Yunus&#8217;s book, Banker to the Poor , &#8220;Grameen’s story opened my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/10/20/study-away-reflections-rachel-hathaway-11-grameen-bank-bangladesh/</link>
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		<title>Study Away Reflections: Yin Chiu ’10 (Galway, Ireland)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 cottages. I suspected the Irish to be very sociable people with charming personalities who love their tea, beer and potatoes. I imagined myself in a small town wearing lamb wool sweaters and spending my evenings in the local pub enjoying a pint of Guinness and traditional Irish music.]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/10/07/study-away-reflections-yin-chiu-10-galway-ireland/</link>
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		<title>MINERVA Wins NCHC Newsletter Contest!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news in the Honors inbox today:
&#8220;Congratulations! Your honors newsletter won 1st place in this year&#8217;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 1-2:15pm in Arlington..&#8221;
This award applies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/09/25/minerva-wins-nchc-newsletter-contest/</link>
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		<title>Honors College Awards First INBRE Fellowships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honors College Awards First INBRE Fellowships
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 research.
The students, all members of the class of 2010, will receive fellowships of $2,500, and their thesis advisors will receive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/09/16/honors-college-awards-first-inbre-fellowships/</link>
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		<title>Bettina Boxall ’74 receives Pulitzer Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honors Program alumna Bettina Boxall&#8217;s thesis, written in 1974, is entitled, Some Notes on the Completion of an Honors Project
On Fire
From UMaine Today&#8211; 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 series, “Big Burn,” exploring the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/08/26/bettina-boxall-74-receives-pulitzer/</link>
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		<title>Ben Freedman ’09 receives Tau Beta Pi Fellowship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Engineering Society Names Fellow
UMaine News
ORONO &#8212; Benjamin Gordon Freedman of Caribou has been awarded a 2009-2010 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the world&#8217;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 Tech, focusing on the research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webwpmu.ume.maine.edu/honors/blog/2009/05/11/2009-graduate-named-tau-beta-pi-fellow/</link>
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