Andrea Mercado, a doctoral student at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Childhood trauma can slow academic development. Here’s one way to fix it.”
Read more
Over 80 percent of teachers in the U.S. are white, despite an increasingly diverse PK-12 student population. This demographic imperative has prompted teacher education to respond in two diverging ways.
Read more
The Penobscot Times reported that University of Maine student Julia Van Steenberghe of Old Town was crowned Miss Maine USA on Nov. 10 in South Portland.
Read more
Daniel Puhlman, assistant professor of family studies, spoke to Maine Public about the launch of the Parenting Relationships Research Lab at University of Maine.
Read more
WABI (Channel 5) attended the opening of the Parenting Relationships Research Lab created by Daniel Puhlman, assistant professor of family studies.
Read more
The Sun Journal announced the University of Maine Early College Program is offering an outdoor leadership pathway program for western Maine high school students to earn UMaine college credits tuition-free.
Read more
Preservice teacher candidates from the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development will put some of what they are learning in their literacy methods courses into practice 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at literacy night at Old Town Elementary School.
Read more
KUNC in Colorado quoted Kathleen Gillon, an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Maine, for a report on Theta Pi Sigma, a new Greek letter organization at the University of Colorado Boulder that is open to members of any gender and sexual identity.
Read more
William Davis, a University of Maine professor of education for 38 years, passed away Sept. 9.
Read more
The Ellsworth American published a University of Maine news release announcing a special education collaboration between UMaine and the University of Maine at Machias.
Read more