Maine Center for Research in STEM Education

John Thompson, chair of the University of Maine Department of Physics and Astronomy, was named a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society. Thompson was elected as a fellow “for performing seminal research on student use of mathematics in physics and the learning and teaching of thermal physics, for leading interdisciplinary collaborations and conferences, and […]

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In Masking Inequality with Good Intentions, Heather M. Falconer examines the impact of systemic bias on disciplinary discourse acquisition and identity development by asking “How do the norms and expectations of higher education and STEM, specifically, impact the development of scientific identity and discursive skill?” and “What role do societal markers like race and gender play […]

Janet Fairman, co-director of the Maine Education Research Policy Institute, said there are three main questions that need to be answered before solutions to the teacher workforce shortage can be determined. She agreed with the DOE that there needs to be more information about open positions, as well as more research on why teachers have […]

Kristen Thompson, a second year master’s student in the Master of Science and Teaching Program at the University of Maine, is working with the Maine-eDNA grant on creating 4-H toolkits for third through fifth graders regarding Harmful and Shifting Species, one of Maine-eDNA’s thematic research goals. Read full Maine-eDNA Spotlight article here: Kristen Thompson’s work on […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a “wicked problem” for higher education, argue researchers from the University of Maine who recently published a study exploring how the first year of the pandemic affected research activities at the institution. Read full UMaine News article here: Study explores ‘wicked problem’ of COVID-19’s impact on research and scholarship in […]

An interactive sculpture that harnesses the rays of the sun to help users explore multiplication and division was unveiled Friday in Orono’s Webster Park, the product of a unique partnership between the University of Maine and the Town of Orono. Read full UMaine News article here: Maine has a new outdoor math learning lab with […]

Through a partnership with the RiSE Center, INSPIRES has created a teaching training program involving middle and high school teachers from across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Read about one of these teachers here: INSPIRES High School Teacher Spotlight: Amy Sidell

Maine EPSCoR INSPIRES shined a spotlight on graduate student, Anupam Raj, a third-year graduate student, as well as a research assistant in the Master of Science in Teaching program through the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education at the University of Maine. After Raj graduates in August 2022, he will teach at Excel High School, […]

The University of Maine Graduate School is waiving application fees for Maine nurses and educators seeking to enroll in a graduate program with the School of Nursing, and College of Education and Human Development, respectively. Fee waivers are available until June 30 for any upcoming term. Read full UMaine News article here: Graduate School waives […]