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.
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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.
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The Parenting Relationships Research Lab was created by assistant professor of family studies Daniel Puhlman, whose research explores co-parenting and fathering. The lab will focus on all relationships involved in parenting, especially parents’ relationship with their children and parents’ relationships with each other, but also grandparents, extended family members, teachers and other caregivers.
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Augmented reality tools have the potential to help students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) improve their ability to read and understand texts, according to a new paper by three University of Maine scholars.
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Mary Gresham, interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development, is being recognized Nov. 7 for her service and leadership by a Buffalo, New York-based agency that helps families, schools and communities raise successful children.
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A paper co-authored by University of Maine assistant professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle won the Howard A. Dawson Best Research Paper Award at the recent National Rural Education Association annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
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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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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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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.
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