Welcome to the Political Science Department
at the University of Maine
Our mission is to provide students the intellectual framework to understand the complexities of political affairs and the analytical and practical skills necessary for them to succeed in a rapidly changing world. We stress the close and complementary relationship between teaching and research, believing that students benefit from intensive training by a professionally engaged faculty. We discover and disseminate knowledge in professional and public arenas, cognizant of our obligation to serve the citizens and institutions of the state of Maine. We strive for an open and stimulating intellectual atmosphere that recognizes the necessity of free exchange of ideas and the intrinsic worth of the individual student.
News and Events
As we head to the end of the 2008-2009 academic year, our students and faculty have achieved notable accomplishments:
Professor Mark Brewer successfully earned tenure and promotion.
Professor Emeritus Kenneth Palmer has been awarded the Maine Heritage Lectureship for 2009. The Maine Heritage Project promotes engaged scholarship and fosters an examination of how Maine’s past and present bear upon its future path.
Ten POS and IA-POS majors have been selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
Sarah Flynn is the recipient of the Edward Collins Outstanding Senior Award in International Affairs/Political Science.
Laurel Michaud is the recipient of the Eugene Mawhinney Outstanding Senior Award in Political Science.
The Hon. Matthew Dunlap, Maine Secretary of State, delivered the keynote address at the Pi Sigma Alpha initiation ceremony. The Epsilon Delta branch of the national political science honor society inducted twenty students on April 15, 2009.
POS and IA students Karin Baard, Katelyn Slotnick, Matthew Swift, Caleb Rosser, Brian Beckerman, Meghan White, Tillmann Schuetz, and Ryan Campbell were named to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' “Top of the Class” of 2012, for their outstanding work in their first semester (fall 2008).
POS major Seamus McGrath was the winner of the 2008-2009 Graton Constitutional Essay Contest.
POS major Matthew LaFlamme delivered the paper “The Supreme Court and the Ninth Amendment” at the 2009 CLAS Undergraduate Research ad Creative Achievement Conference, April 18, 2009.
Political Science Department
5754 North Stevens Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5754
207.581.1871
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