The University of Maine Career Center will host the 18th annual UMaine Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. More than 140 employers from Maine and around the country with job and internship opportunities are expected to exhibit at the fair. Several graduate and […]
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A chance meeting in the dairy aisle at the grocery store in summer 2013 led Jesse Kaye-Schiess to enroll in the master’s program in kinesiology and physical education at the University of Maine. He had finished his undergraduate degree in KPE at UMaine in 2012 and taught for a year in Lincoln, Maine. But like […]
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Robert Lehnhard, an education professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Maine Women article, “The new PE: Less competition, more fitness.” Lehnhard, who studies fitness involving school-aged kids, has found students who progressed through 12 years of school were “significantly less fit when they finished than when they started,” according to the […]
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Elizabeth Allan, a University of Maine professor of higher education, will lead a webinar on “Preventing Hazing on Campus” on Thursday, Dec. 17. Lauri Sidelko, director of the UMaine Student Wellness Resource Center, and UMaine alumna Diana Haney also will take part. The fourth participant will be Rasheed Ali Cromwell, president of the Harbor Institute, […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a lecture and book signing by University of Maine student Nicole Maines and her father Wayne, director of safety and environmental management at UMaine. The Maines family is the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt’s book “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation […]
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The Political Science Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in late August. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike […]
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The College of Education and Human Development and the Department of Art are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. Northeast Forest Information Source, Phi Kappa Phi — Chapter 1 and the Writing Center also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in late August. For more information […]
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Patrick Womac takes off his shoes and steps onto the huge map of Africa covering half the gym floor at Old Town’s Leonard Middle School. Womac, an assistant professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction at the University of Maine, stands on Libya as he leads a group of seventh graders in discussion. “How many people […]
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University of Maine student Nicole Maines, the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt’s book “Becoming Nicole,” will discuss her experiences as a transgender youth Tuesday, Dec. 1. Maines’ father Wayne also will speak about the family’s journey during the lecture slated for 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in 100 D.P. Corbett Business Building. […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine; Craig Mason, a UMaine professor of education; and Ami Gaspar, an advanced computing outreach specialist with IT, about a three-year, $2 million research project that will use a popular video […]
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