Last fall, Elizabeth Spiller was in a first grade classroom at Earl C. McGraw School in Hampden, where she’s a student teacher, when the guidance counselor taught a lesson that struck a chord and reminded her why she decided to pursue a career in education.
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When he came to Maine in 2015, Ming-Tso Chien was a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant in the University of Maine Department of Modern Languages and Classics, where he taught classes in Mandarin Chinese.
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Sherry Pineau Brown has received awards from the Linda N. Lancaster Professional Development Fund three times as a doctoral student in the PreK-12 Education program’s prevention and intervention studies concentration.
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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.
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When Stephanie Mulligan was a sophomore at University of Maine, she started writing a poem about her experience working on the Lucky Catch, a lobster fishing tour boat out of Casco Bay.
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Rachael Kellogg is a two-time recipient of funds from the Linda N. Lancaster Professional Development Fund. The Ph.D. student in literacy education is a first grade teacher in Steuben, and her doctoral research is focused on humor in kindergarten through second grade classrooms, and how it relates to literacy.
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Rachel Hobbs and J. Andrew Cormier spent their summers as interns at the Challenger Learning Center of Maine in Bangor, working with youth in STEM-focused summer camp programs with the hope of encouraging campers to aspire to higher education and careers in these fields. Hobbs, of Presque Isle, Maine, is a fifth-year secondary education major […]
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Hadley White of Goffstown, New Hampshire, spent her summer in Presque Isle working as a resident director and French instructor for Upward Bound, a program that helps first-generation and low-income college-bound high school students succeed in higher education.
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Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts spent part of her summer immersed in activism and volunteering with youth.
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Andrew Vernon is on a mission to reverse a staggering statistic about military veterans: On average, 20 veterans commit suicide every day in the United States. It’s a number that has held steady for a decade, and Vernon says it’s time to do something about it.
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