While understanding that trauma has significant consequences, it is equally important to remember that recovery is possible and that students can achieve successful and productive lives. School climate plays a significant role in helping all students to develop adaptively, including those who have faced trauma.
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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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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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The Susan Hathaway Glines Scholarship will provide financial aid to one full- or part-time master’s candidate in the College of Education and Human Development, who lives in Oxford County.
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William Davis, a University of Maine professor of education for 38 years, passed away Sept. 9.
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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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The Ellsworth American published a University of Maine news release announcing a special education collaboration between UMaine and the University of Maine at Machias.
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Lori Taylor, a Reading Recovery trainer with the College of Education and Human Development’s University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Comprehensive Literacy, has been elected to a seat on the Reading Recovery Council of North America (RRCNA) Board of Directors.
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Asli Sezen-Barrie, assistant professor of science and engineering education, is profiled in the latest UMaine Research newsletter. In the article, Sezen-Barrie, who received a 2019 Summer Faculty Research Award, discusses her work to build stronger pre-service programs that include the engineering education for future educators in Maine by focusing on teachers.
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Starting this fall, undergraduate students majoring in education at the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias will be able count certain 400-level courses toward a master’s degree in special education.
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