Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Hakkola, Dyer research about building diverse faculty cited in Open Campus

Open Campus featured research by Leah Hakkola, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Maine, and Sarah Dyer, a doctoral student of higher education at UMaine and a diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Husson University, about implicit bias and hiring in higher education. Hakkola and Dyer found that faculty who chaired the […]

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Caron speaks with Adotas about ‘friends with benefits’

Sandra Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, spoke with Adotas about the impacts of casual sex on friendship. “It may sound great in the beginning, but sex often complicates things in ways you don’t expect,” Caron said. “It’s almost like a plane. The plane has to move […]

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Republican Journal highlights Hartmann Award winner

The Republican Journal highlighted the achievements of Stockton Springs resident Bonnie-Jean Brooks. The Maryann Hartman Awards are awarded annually by UMaine to honor Maine women’s achievements in the arts, politics, business, education and community service. Brooks founded Opportunity Housing Inc., now called OHI, in 1979, and has spent the past four decades consulting for public […]

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2022 Hartman Awards to be presented April 1

The 2022 Maryann Hartman Awards recognizing the inspirational achievements of Maine women will be presented to community leader and certified nursing assistant ZamZam Mohamud of Lewiston; recently retired Opportunity Housing, Inc., founding president and CEO Bonnie-Jean Brooks of Stockton Springs; and long-time senior executive and UMaine alumna Susan Bell of Hallowell, former director of the […]

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CUGR names 2022–2024 Research Faculty Fellows

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2022–2024 Research Faculty Fellows. CUGR Research Faculty Fellows are a cohort of faculty members who were nominated by their respective deans and selected by the center. The program is designed to support faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to […]

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Ann Schonberger passes away

Editor’s note: The family of Ann Schonberger has arranged a memorial gathering to celebrate her life on Saturday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall.  A memorial service will be held in Bangor later this year to honor the life and legacy of Ann Schonberger, retired director of the University of Maine Women […]

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NPR talks with Blackstone about declining birth rate in the U.S.

Amy Blackstone, a University of Maine professor of sociology, appeared on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition to discuss the declining birth rate in the U.S., suggesting that a number of factors impact birth rates including a lack of support for working mothers and a trend toward having children later in life.

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Miranda Snyder

Miranda Snyder: Outstanding Graduating Student

Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The secondary education major with a concentration in English received highest honors for her thesis completed in December, “How Alumnae of a Middle and High School Feminist Organizations Perceive Their Involvement Related to Their Academic Self-Concept.” Snyder […]

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Online collection documents activism by women’s organizations in Maine

A new digital collection from the University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library chronicles the activism and public discourse of women in Maine from the late 1800s to the present.  The Maine Women’s History Collection documents the efforts of women’s organizations to address a variety of social and political issues including women’s suffrage, the Equal […]

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