Honors Program

On Friday, April 19 more than 200 University of Southern Maine students presented a wide variety of research projects as well as TED Talk-style presentations, "Lightning Talks" at the 2019 "Thinking Matters" at the Abromson Center, on the Portland Campus.

Honors Student, Shaelan Donovan, shares her Iceland Internship Experience!

Melissa, a recent Honors Program graduate, is dedicated to caring for people who are poor, homeless, dealing with addiction or coping with mental illness.

A feature documentary film that goes inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans + a special one-time concert and Q&A with the film director!

A deeper walk through Portland history

"One student's journey to a small piece of state history of Malaga Island"

A new five-act play, “The Poet and the Assassin,” written by Reza Jalali of the University of Southern Maine’s Honors Program offers historic and contemporary insight into the situation of women in Iran, a society shrouded in mystery.

Reza Jalali, a USM Honors lecturer and author, spoke at a Farmington ceremony honoring Martin Luther King Jr. "Build bridges rather than walls," said Jalali in the address covered by the Livermore Falls Advertiser and the Sun Journal.

USM will host the 2nd Annual W. E. B. Du Bois lecture on Race and Democracy examining "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Race and Participatory Democracy North of the Mason Dixon Line" with speaker Brian Purnell.

Students from the University of Southern Maine’s Honors program “Cinema in Iran” course, along with their instructor, professor Reza Jalali, will present the 2017 Iranian Film Festival—a first of its kind in Maine—in Portland beginning on October 20.