Samantha Poll: UMaine graduate receives national recognition for STEM teaching
Samantha Poll grew up in Winterport, the same tight-knit, central Maine town where she’s now a teacher. “I know the families, and I know how it feels to be sitting […]
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Math teachers enhance instruction with support from UMaine’s RiSE Center
Derek Bizier doesn’t teach his eighth grade math students the same way he learned in middle school — primarily through lectures. Instead, his students at Leonard Middle School in Old […]
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WABI highlights Maine-SMART program
WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) highlighted a four-year initiative led by the University of Maine to bolster STEM research capacity and education from Kittery to Fort Kent and dismantle systemic […]
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Media boost collaboration between RiSE Center, Belfast teachers
WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) and WFVX (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) highlighted the collaboration between teachers in Belfast and the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education at the […]
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News Center highlights tick project from UMaine Extension
News Center Maine highlighted the 4-H Tick Project from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The program, currently underway on Swans Island — located off the coast of Mount Desert […]
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UMaine’s RiSE Center helps Belfast teachers create empowering student research experiences
For the first time in its 34-year history, students from the Belfast Community Outreach Program for Education (BCOPE) — an alternative high school program for academically at-risk students — participated […]
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Update: Astronomy Center hosting new event for Minecraft lovers June 15
The University of Maine Versant Power Astronomy Center is hosting a new family event in partnership with What-If Hypothetical Implementations in Minecraft (WHIMC). This immersive astronomy experience, scheduled for Saturday, […]
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News Center highlights UMaine engineering collaboration with John Bapst
News Center Maine highlighted the collaboration between the Maine College of Engineering and Computing at the University of Maine and John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor as part of […]
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UMaine researchers creating semiconductor curriculum for high schoolers
The National Science Foundation awarded $1.2 million to a University of Maine-led team of researchers to create a comprehensive semiconductor curriculum for high school students. Spearheaded by principal investigator Prabuddha […]
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New initiative unites Maine’s innovators to bolster STEM research and workforce
An $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a four-year initiative led by the University of Maine to bolster STEM research capacity and education from Kittery to […]
