The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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Nationally known children’s book author and illustrator Gail Gibbons recently received the first annual Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text, a new national award created through the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development.
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Robert Milardo, professor of family relations at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Lewiston Sun Journal story about a nationwide trend in the rising numbers of unmarried mothers and decline of married mothers. Milardo estimated some 50 percent of unmarried mothers are living with a partner and some will become single mothers if […]
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Correll Professor of Early Literacy Susan Bennett-Armistead was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) report on the “Growing Up Healthy, Building Children’s World Knowledge Through Literacy” conference Saturday at UMaine. An estimated 100 educators from around Maine registered to attend. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The University of Maine will share part of a $3.5 million federal grant with two research collaborators — Worcester Polytechnic Institute and SRI International — to study the effectiveness of an online mathematics homework tutorial for students and teachers in 50 Maine schools.
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A news release that appeared in the Sacramento Bee newspaper noted that UMaine is one of three organizations or institutions to be involved in a $3.5 million grant to student the effectiveness of an online tutoring system for mathematics homework. SRI International, a nonprofit research and development organization, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute will also be […]
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The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 29 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.
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The Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center at the University of Maine recently earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The center is one of the oldest university-affiliated laboratory schools in the country, providing students in UMaine’s education and early childhood programs the opportunity to learn through teaching […]
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Janet Fairman, an associate research professor at UMaine’s Center for Research and Education and the Maine Education Policy Research Institute, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal report on proficiency-based education, a new model for education that may become mandatory for all Maine public schools. Fairman said the new model could put Maine on the path […]
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A book written by Rich Kent, a UMaine associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development, was reviewed on the National Writing Project website. The reviewer, UMaine alumna Emilie Brand Manhart, wrote that “Writing on the Bus: Using Athletic Team Notebooks and Journals to Advance Learning and Performance in Sports,” offers a balanced […]
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