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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Florida’s WCTV is reporting that UMaine education professor Elizabeth Allan, who in 2008 along with fellow faculty member Mary Madden authored a groundbreaking national study on hazing, will participate in a Sept. 20 town hall meeting at Florida A&M University. FAMU has been the site of recent hazing incidents. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Orlando Sentinel reported that UMaine education professor and nationally known hazing researcher Elizabeth Allan is one of the experts who is expected to attend a Sept. 20 meeting at Florida A&M University, the site of recent hazing incidents. Allan, the principal investigator for the National Study of Student Hazing in 2008, is serving on […]
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Susan Bennett Armistead, who teachers early literacy at UMaine and works with the program Raising Readers, was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Radio report on plans to increase literacy in Maine. Armistead said asking local communities to take control of their own literacy needs is a unique approach to reform. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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A USA Today College article about another hazing incident at Florida A&M University, where a student died in 2011 as a result of hazing, cited the findings of groundbreaking research on hazing by UMaine College of Education and Human Development professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden. In a national study on the frequency of hazing, […]
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From high school students to Olympians, athletes benefit from journaling about their experiences on the practice and playing fields.
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The Castine Patriot published a feature story about the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership (PSP), a collaboration of some 50 rural Maine schools, three University of Maine colleges, three Maine nonprofits with expertise in science education, and science and technology leaders at the Maine Department of Education to promote the teaching and learning of physical sciences […]
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The University of Maine campus was packed Monday, Aug. 27 with thousands of visitors from around the country for the third Summer Tour, a UMaine admissions event that gave prospective students and their guests the opportunity to ask questions about UMaine, tour the campus, get a glimpse of student life and even skate on the […]
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