UMaine education major Megan Nichols of Wiscasset will leave Maine on Feb. 24 for student teaching in New Zealand. As Monday’s Bangor Daily News reports, she is one of the first UMaine students to take advantage of a new partnership between UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development and AustraLearn, an organization that places students […]
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The findings of a national hazing study conducted by UMaine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden were mentioned in a Reuters story about incidents that took place last at a high school in Blackfoot, Idaho, involving college football players from Boise State, Idaho State, and Carroll College in Montana. The study found 47 percent of […]
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Contact: Pam Kimball, (207) 581-2456 ORONO — University of Maine education students now have a new student-teaching option — in Australia and New Zealand classrooms. The College of Education and Human Development recently formalized a partnership with AustraLearn, an Australian nonprofit that places students in schools in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The […]
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Ashley Kerekes, a recent UMaine graduate from the College of Education and Human Development, has become a celebrity of sorts in the world of cricket. Her Twitter handle @theashes matches the name of a popular Australian cricket tournament, “The Ashes.” During the tournament, fans began communicating with Kerekes through Twitter, assuming she was affiliated with […]
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UMaine hazing researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden have done several news interviews since the recent Associated Press story updating their extensive research relative to hazing behaviors at U.S. educational institutions. Allan was a Wednesday guest on the WZON radio (103.1FM and AM620) morning program. Madden appeared on “College Connection,” an Oklahoma radio program about […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine education commissioner J. Duke Albanese will visit UMaine on Monday Dec. 6, as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Albanese currently serves as senior policy adviser in Maine’s Great Schools Partnership. Albanese will spend the day at UMaine, […]
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Bob Lehnhard of the UMaine kinesiology and physical education faculty will be interviewed live on CNN television Wednesday Dec. 1 at approximately 1:45 p.m. CNN became interested in UMaine exercise science research activity as the result of a Monday WABI television report highlighting an innovative project that measures the impact of certain exercises on athletic […]
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Contact: Amie Dick, (201) 415-0933 or amie.dick@umit.maine.edu The Bangor-based “Adventure Girls” program for girls in grades 2-6, created by the nonprofit advocacy group Hardy Girls Healthy Women (HGHW) in Waterville, is accepting registrations for one of its upcoming activities to be held in Deering Hall at UMaine on Jan. 15 from 1-3 p.m., a presentation […]
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A Wednesday Inside Higher Ed story reports on the continuing hazing research project headed up by UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden. Building on extensive survey research from 2007 and 2008, Allan and Madden have now created a “National Agenda for Hazing Prevention in Education,” to inform efforts aimed at preventing hazing on college campuses […]
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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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