Several news organizations, including the Bangor Daily News and Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on the misplacement and recovery of scallop innards collected for marine research at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole. A scallop diver delivering the scallop parts to a university researcher mistakenly placed the package in the wrong vehicle with […]
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UMaine students and employees step up to help others in need this holiday season.
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A UMaine analysis finds obese youth could cost Maine $1.2 billion in the next 20 years.
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A symposium scheduled Friday, Nov. 9 at the Buchanan Alumni House is being organized by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development and the Office of the Vice President for Enrollment Management to bring together Maine teachers and school administrators to discuss and share ideas about recruiting international students. Nearly 60 participants in addition […]
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On Monday, Oct. 29, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will hold Community Conversation 2.0, his second annual discussion with the UMaine community. The President’s Community Conversation 2.0 will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Wells Conference Center. This year, the President’s Community Conversation is being combined with the annual Employee Breakfast. […]
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An article in the Alaska Dispatch, originally published in the Christian Science Monitor, about hazing at secondary schools and universities becoming more frequent and more harmful than traditional pranks cited a 2008 study led by University of Maine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden on behalf of the National Collaborative for Hazing Research and Prevention. […]
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UMaine has been recognized again this year in multiple national college rankings for its outstanding academics and programs.
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A 2008 University of Maine study about hazing among post-secondary students was noted in a Christian Science Monitor report about a hazing incident involving a California high school soccer team. The report cited statistics from the study that 47 percent of students surveyed had experienced hazing before coming to college and 55 percent of students […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program is presenting the first event in its Fall Visiting Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 2. All of the presentations begin at 7 p.m. in Lord Hall and are free and open to the public. On Oct. 2, Jae Rhim Lee, a research fellow in the MIT Program in […]
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University of Maine College of Education and Human Development professor Elizabeth Allan was interviewed for National Public Radio report on a hazing town hall meeting at Florida A&M University, where a student died after a hazing incident last year. Allan, a leading national researcher on the topic of hazing and member of a select Texas […]
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