The Bangor Daily News reported on comments made Wednesday by Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen who met on campus with UMaine education students. Speaking about new directions in teaching that Maine’s future and working teachers should consider as they go forward in their careers, Bowen told the UMaine students, who are in an intensive one-year […]
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The Athletic Business magazine has posted on its website a Bangor Daily News article about University of Maine men’s hockey players participating in a research project with exercise science students to determine the cardiovascular effects and energy expenditure of an underwater treadmill being used for rehabilitating injured athletes. The research established for the first time […]
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A New England Cable News (NECN.com) interview about keeping kids safe from bullying and hazing at summer sports camps cited groundbreaking research by University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty members Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden that showed 47 percent of more than 11,000 students surveyed on 53 campuses nationwide reported they […]
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Comments from Mary Ellin Logue, a UMaine associate professor of child development and family relations, were included in a Bangor Daily News report about the death of a 2-year-old who had been roughhousing with his older brother. Logue said the incident shouldn’t be cause for people to stop playing or roughhousing with their children, but […]
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The Bangor Daily News health website highlighted a UMaine news release about researchers who have been comparing athletes’ performance on an underwater treadmill versus a traditional treadmill. The group, which included graduate students Philip Watson and Travis Bouchard and undergraduate Cassandra Mendonca, who received degrees in May 2012, along with professor Robert Lehnhard, had found […]
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Initiative aimed at fostering the professional development of UMaine female faculty members in engineering, mathematics, technology, and the physical, biological and social-behavioral sciences.
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University of Maine graduate and undergraduate students in exercise science have established in recent research that an underwater treadmill also can provide effective low-impact rehabilitation and cardiovascular conditioning.
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In a Bangor Daily News report about Ed Lindsey, a UMaine alumnus and Old Town High School teacher who is one of 18 teachers in the nation to have won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators, Lindsey credited the Acadia Learning Project, in which UMaine is involved, for helping him win the award. Lindsey’s […]
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The University of Maine has committed $1,000 in scholarships for 17 students who win a drawing during the 9th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Student Conference Thursday at UMaine. Ten scholarships are bring offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, five from the School of Computing and Information Science, and two from […]
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William Dee Nichols has been named Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, effective July 1. Nichols, who is nationally recognized for his work in the field of literacy, will replace Anne Pooler, who is retiring after 36 years at UMaine. Nichols was recommended following a national search. […]
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