RiSE— Maine Center for Research in STEM Education

Mission Statement

To advance the research and practice of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the STEM disciplines.

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In The News

RiSE Center researchers publish article in Science

"Anatomy of STEM Teaching in North American Universities" including UMaine discipline-based education researchers - Michelle Smith, MacKenzie Stetzer, and Erin Vinson - as co-authors.

The application for Fall 2018 Maine Learning Assistants is now open!

Maine Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who are hired to assist instructors in STEM courses on campus.

MST Student publishes article in Frontiers

Master of Science in Teaching student, Kenneth Akiha, publishes article with collaborators at the University of Maine and the University of Nebraska Lincoln in Frontiers!

UMaine System faculty collaborate to publish teaching activity

RiSE Center faculty and staff, faculty from University of Maine System campuses, Master of Science in Teaching graduate students, and the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership collaborated to design and publish an active-learning lesson in the peer-reviewed journal, CourseSource.