Elizabeth Chalecki, a nonresident research fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., will give a talk titled “Environmental Security: A Guide to the Issues,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11 in 140 Little Hall on the University of Maine campus. Chalecki’s book of the same name focuses on understanding the links between international security […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Karen Keim, associate director of the Maine Educational Opportunity Center at the University of Maine, and Alan Parks, director of College Success Programs at UMaine, for an article about females outnumbering males on U.S. college campuses. Keim spoke about the importance of education during the middle school years and […]
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GlobaLinks Learning Abroad, one of the largest and most prestigious study abroad organizations in the country, recently honored Orlina Boteva, study abroad adviser at the University of Maine, with an Innovation in Education Abroad Award. Boteva was given the award for her part in developing the Student Teaching Abroad program, which allows UMaine education majors […]
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,033 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Spring 2013 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,716 are from Maine, 254 are from out of state, and 63 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2013 Spring […]
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Karen Hatch Gagne, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) at the fourth annual Positive Youth Development Institute in Bangor. The professional development conference gives Maine educators a chance to hear from students about ways to strengthen their relationships. Gagne said changes in education are really about youth voice, choice and […]
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‘Fiske Guide’ again names UMaine one of top higher education institutions in the United States, Canada, Ireland and Great Britain.
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The Bloomberg article “Mother of golf prodigy in hazing death defied by FratPAC” cited the University of Maine’s National Study on Student Hazing. The UMaine research says six states lack anti-hazing laws, and at least seven others have statutes that don’t make it a crime in the absence of injuries.
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Final group videos by student teams in the Upward Bound Math Science Summer Program will be presented from 8–11 a.m., July 26, Woolley Room, Doris Twitchell Allen Village. The high school students gained hands-on experience working with UMaine graduate students or faculty planning and designing sustainability solutions. This summer, those sustainability solutions included designing safe, […]
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The Bangor Daily News editorial “Coaches have perfect play to strike out bullying” cited the University of Maine’s National Study of Student Hazing. The study found 47 percent of respondents said they were hazed while in high school.
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William “Dee” Nichols, dean of the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Bangor Daily News about UMaine’s low rating in a national study on teacher-training programs. Nichols questioned the methodology and goal of the National Council on Teacher Quality study that ranked 1,430 education programs […]
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