NBC4 Los Angeles included research from a 2008 University of Maine study in a report about a woman’s vow to change college culture 12 years after her son died in a fraternity hazing ritual in Chico, California.
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Deborah Rooks-Ellis, director of the Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about the largest research project to be conducted on autism.
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Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the editorial, “A worthwhile step toward ending fraternity hazing, once and for all.”
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Maine Public for the report, “As tax bases erode, rural schools struggle to meet students’ basic needs.”
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A team from the University of Maine recently released a beta virtual reality program that allows students to learn geometry in a virtual 3-D space.
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Mary Ellin Logue, an associate professor of early childhood education at the University of Maine, was cited in a Morning Sentinel/Kennebec Journal article about a proposed $1.8 million budget cut that would have would have eliminated 83 slots statewide in the Early Head Start program.
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Reading Eagle included research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about newly proposed federal legislation that would require colleges to track and report hazing incidents.
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WABI (Channel 5) covered the Virtual Reality Immersive Expo hosted by the Maine Department of Education and Maine State Library in Augusta.
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Mary Ellin Logue, an associate professor in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, was interviewed by the Morning Sentinel for an article about the state’s Early Head Start programs and potential budget cuts.
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By nature, new curriculum standards such as Common Core or the Next Generation Science Standards have the appearance of being well established ideas for education. Often, however, standards are more visionary, projecting past what is now achievable to what could be achieved in future.
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