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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Comments from Mary Ellin Logue of the UMaine education faculty are included in a story posted on the MSNBC Web site, looking at issues related to aggressive play among boys and the ways in which teachers respond to it.
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MPBN reports the Lewiston School Department will use part of its $2 million share of federal funding for professional development through the University of Maine.
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Contact: Dave Boardman, (207) 649-9863; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 OAKLAND, Maine — When two students with disabilities at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Maine, wanted to raise awareness about the lack of accessibility in their school, they made a video. Within 24 hours, hundreds of students, teachers and even the school board had seen it. […]
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Contact: Susan Bennett-Armistead, 581-2418 ORONO — The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has awarded Susan Bennett-Armistead the Correll Professorship in Early Literacy. Bennett-Armistead is an assistant professor of literacy area programs and an authority on early literacy and young children’s language and literacy acquisition. Her appointment was made possible the generosity […]
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