A Tuesday Portland Press Herald editorial praises UMaine hazing researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden for developing a “National Agenda for Hazing Prevention in Education,” a follow-up to their 2008 report documenting hazing behaviors at colleges and universities around the U.S. The editorial follows a recent Associated Press story on this effort, published in Tuesday’s […]
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An Associated Press story details a new stage in the extensive hazing research project being conducted by Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden of the UMaine education faculty. Following their 2008 survey that provided the most extensive information ever collected on the subject as it relates to U.S. colleges and universities, Allan and Madden have launched […]
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Contact: Theresa McMannus, 581-2441 The College of Education and Human Development, in collaboration with the University Bookstore and the Old Town-Orono Kiwanis Club, has begun accepting books for its annual children’s holiday book drive, now in its 33rd year. New books for toddlers through teens can be dropped off unwrapped at the office of college […]
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Contact: Lu Zeph, (207) 581-1207; Sandra Horne, (207) 581-1236 ORONO – The University of Maine has received $1.2 million in grant funding to begin preparing more and better-qualified early intervention special education teachers to serve increasing numbers of children with disabilities in Maine. The four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced Thursday’s candlelight vigil at UMaine, which will focus on victims of bullying, including those who have committed suicide because of bullying. The rally starts at 6 p.m. on the university mall in front of Fogler Library. Rebecca Hickman, a UMaine graduate student who is studying mental health with a concentration […]
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Contact: Alan Majka, (207) 622-7546 WATERVILLE — At Waterville Junior High School, health teacher Jane Dean is teaching sixth-graders how to see through deceptive junk food marketing, improve activity levels and make healthier snack choices. At the Mitchell Elementary School in Waterville, Wendy Lagasse of MaineGeneral Health System’s Prevention Center is presenting a program to […]
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Mary Ellin Logue, a faculty member and researcher in the College of Education and Human Development, provided perspectives on questions about the significance of rough play by boys for a recent MSNBC article on the topic. Logue also was featured in an extensive Radio Health Journal program interview on the same subject. The program was […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which […]
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Contact: Mary Rosser, 581-2445; Anne Pooler, 581-2441 ORONO — The University of Maine Reading Recovery initiative is part of a national network of 16 colleges and universities receiving $45.6 million to help improve literacy skills for an estimated 500,000 first-graders struggling with reading and writing. UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development is receiving $2.9 […]
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An article about Purdue University’s Hazing Prevention Week in the online version of the Journal and Courier of Lafayette, Indiana, cites the research of UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden in the National Study on Student Hazing. Allan and Madden found 55 percent of college students involved in clubs, teams, and organizations experience hazing […]
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