The first speaker for the University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series will be Ernest Morrell, director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. He’ll speak March 26 about English language arts instruction.
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Callie MacQueston of Vinalhaven, a UMaine graduate student pursuing a master’s in human development, was featured in a coastal Village Soup newspaper article about her preparations for the Miss Collegiate America Pageant March 9-10 in San Antonio. MacQueston is representing the state of Vermont as an at-large contestant, according to the article. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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In a report on a recent hazing incident related to students and alumni of Youngstown State University, the Vindicator newspaper of Youngstown, Ohio, quoted UMaine education professor Mary Madden about why students participate in hazing. Madden, who along with UMaine’s Elizabeth Allan co-authored a landmark 2008 study into hazing, said students participate in hazing, theoretically, […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed two UMaine students for a feature report about their colorful courtship – a proposal made on the front page of a local newspaper supplement. Engineering major Sean Carter of Ellsworth popped the question last week to math graduate student Rachel Rier of Lubec in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor […]
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University of Maine professor of higher education and national pacesetter for hazing research Elizabeth Allan was interviewed for an in-depth article on hazing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Allan, co-author of a national study on hazing with colleague UMaine research professor Mary Madden, said hazing is so ingrained in tradition that many participants simply […]
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An editorial in Sunday’s Florida Times-Union newspaper on ways to discourage hazing at colleges and universities notes that the University of Maine has become a center for hazing prevention research. The editorial noted a groundbreaking, three-year national study on hazing by UMaine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan and colleague Mary Madden, and included comments […]
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The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Board of Trustees announced Thursday University of Maine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden have been named to the FAMU Anti-Hazing Committee, according to a news release from the Tallahassee school.
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The Maine Physical Sciences Partnership, a program that partners UMaine with nearly 50 middle and high schools, was featured in two local TV reports Thursday evening. WABI and WLBZ filmed students and a teacher at the Reeds Brook School in Hampden, where the students were studying force and motion by testing propeller-powered model cars. Both […]
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Media outlets around the country, including the Kansas City Star, reported that UMaine education professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden have been named Thursday to a newly formed anti-hazing committee at Florida A&M University, which had a hazing incident last fall which led to the death of a student band member. Allan and Madden are […]
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OLD TOWN – There is Planet Earth, which, for the sake of the discussion taking place in Ed Lindsey’s 9th-grade science class at Old Town High School, is a spherical object made of rock, watery on its surface and wrapped in a layer of air. And there is the mysterious Planet Z, identical to Earth […]
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