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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Comments from Mary Madden, a UMaine education faculty member who is considered a national expert on hazing at the college level, were included in an Orlando Sentinel story about a hazing incident involving Florida A&M University’s marching band. Madden told the newspaper that the school’s decision to suspend its summer band camp and temporarily bar […]
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Bangor TV station WABI reported on Sunday’s 3-on-3 basketball tournament that was a fundraiser for the Strong Minds, Strong Bodies organization headed by UMaine alumnus and former Black Bear football player Roosevelt Boone. Boone said the free program offers kids the opportunity to participate in physical activity and able to learn during the summer months […]
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Comments from UMaine education professor Elizabeth Allan, who co-authored in 2008 with fellow UMaine faculty member Mary Madden a national study on hazing, were included in an Orlando Sentinel story about hazing on college campuses. Allan said campus culture must be examined. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several media outlets covered Monday’s 16th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, which was held at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. The Bangor Daily News noted the focus of the event was on education and King’s vision for how American children should learn — regardless of race, social or economic standing. Phyllis Brazee, a UMaine […]
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The Philadelphia-based National Public Radio affiliate WHYY interviewed UMaine professor of higher education leadership Elizabeth Allan, one of the nation’s foremost experts on hazing and bullying, Jan. 5 for a live report examining hazing and bullying. As part of the program Radio Times, Allan discussed the findings from research with colleague Mary Madden into the […]
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