KPE major Smith earns America East Player of the Year, All-Academic Team honors
Adrianna (Adi) Smith, a kinesiology and physical education major, has been named America East Women’s Basketball Player of the Year, the league announced this week.
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Katherine McCarthy: Finding and building community at UMaine
Katherine McCarthy of Greenville, North Carolina is a University of Maine graduate student pursuing her M.Ed in student development in higher education.
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Education connection: Student teacher reunites with elementary school principal at UMaine
Back in 2006 and 2007, Maria Low was in kindergarten at Capri Street School in Brewer, Maine. Joan Staffiere was the school’s principal. Low is now a college senior majoring in elementary education at the University of Maine, where Staffiere — who retired from a distinguished career as a public school teacher and administrator in 2008 — is now an adjunct instructor and student teaching supervisor.
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COEHD alumna Kelsey Stoyanova to keynote UMaine Student Symposium
University of Maine College of Education and Human Development alumna and 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year Kelsey Stoyanova will give the keynote talk at the annual UMaine Student Symposium (UMSS), a celebration of student research and creative work, April 14 at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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‘Teaching is my calling’: Heather Anderson, UMaine alumna and Aroostook County Teacher of the Year
Things have come full circle for Heather Anderson.
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UMaine senior recognized at Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association convention
University of Maine senior athletic training student Emily Davison took home a pair of honors at the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association (EATA) convention held Jan. 6-9 in Boston.
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Emily Albee: 2022 Penobscot County Teacher of the Year found a passion for education and social justice at UMaine
Emily Albee (’06, ’09G, ’12G) says her high school students are often surprised to learn that she wasn’t entirely prepared for college when she started attending the University of Maine.
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Media report on UMaine alum’s Milken Educator Award
Sarah Collins (’08, ’14G), a fourth-grade science teacher at Patricia A. Duran School in Hermon, will get a $25,000 unrestricted cash prize from the Milken Family Foundation, which hands out the awards — sometimes called the Oscars of Teaching — to educators who inspire and uplift, and make a profound difference for students, colleagues and communities.
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MEOC alum featured in video highlighting 50 years of educational opportunity centers
Myles Oulette, an alum of the Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC), was selected by the Council for Opportunity in Education to represent educational opportunity center students nationwide in a video celebrating the 50th anniversary of EOCs in the U.S.
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UMaine alum named state’s history teacher of the year, Bangor Daily News reports
University of Maine alumnus Geoffrey Wingard has been named Maine’s 2022 State History Teacher of the Year, the Bangor Daily News reported.
