Center News Archives

Center News Archives

2007-2008:

Pandiscio Attends Residency

Eric Pandiscio, Professor of Education, participated in the 17th annual Park City Mathematics Institute, a three- week residential summer session, held in July in Utah.
The institute is an outreach program of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.  The goal of the session was to further participants’ understanding of designing and delivering professional development initiatives for high school math teachers. Pandiscio was assigned to the Designing and Implementing Professional Development Team.

Congratulations!

Congratulations are in order to the following people in the MST Program for winning awards for the next academic year:

Trustee Tuition Scholarships for 2007-2008:
Katie McCann – MST
Hannah Webber – MST

Summer Awards for 2007:
Katie McCann – MST
Danielle Miniutti – MST
Elliot Rappaport – MST

Graduation 2007
Please join us in congratulating the following MST graduates who were hooded on Saturday, May 12, 2007:

Roger Feeley (May 2007)
Matthew Leland (May 2007)
Jonathan Moyer (May 2007)
David Nelson (August 2006)
Jonathan Pratt (December 2006)
Trevor Smith (May 2007)
Medea Steinman (May 2007)

Summer Graduates 2007

Glenn Colby (August 2007)
Zachary McIntyre (August 2007)
Dan Reed (August 2007)

Also, congratulations are in order to MST candidates Bhupendra Nagpure and Meghan Southworth, for completing a semester of research at the Jackson Laboratory, and to Jennifer Riefler a high school science teacher from Mount Desert High School, the Arthur Vining Davis Research Sabbatical recipient for 2007, who also completed a semester of research at the Jackson Laboratory.

2004-2005:

No Question Left Behind:

Workshop sponsored by the University of Maine Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research and The Jackson Laboratory, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Balfour Foundation.

Teaching Scientists (Found in UMaine Today, Nov/Dec. 2004 issue, “Student Focus”)

MST Student Interns at the Jackson Laboratory during Spring Semester 2004.
On Thursday, May 6th, MST candidates Robert Blaisdell, Jon Moyer (May ’07), and Jessica Odell (August ’05) presented the research that they did as student interns at the Jackson Laboratory during the spring semester. The presentations took place in the auditorium at Jackson Lab.