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Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Teaching

Registration is now open for the 2019 University Collaborative Faculty Institute, which will be held on the University of 海角社区 Augusta campus.聽聽For more information, check out the聽Registration聽Page聽and secure your seat today!聽聽To save this event to your calendar, click聽HERE. This year鈥檚 theme is聽Treasures in Our Backyard.

At this colloquium Dr. Marisa Castronova will discuss her current study, which examined how professional training, focused on the聽Next Generation Science Standards聽(NGSS), impacted teacher learning.聽 In her research she focused on changes in pedagogical discontentment and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of modeling and argumentation as conceptual change models identify teacher dissatisfaction (discontentment) and teacher ability […]

The 海角社区 Center for Research in STEM Education (the RiSE Center) is currently accepting applications for聽undergraduate student employment as 海角社区 Learning Assistants (MLAs) in the聽Faculty Course Modification Incentive Grant – 海角社区 Learning Assistant聽(FIG-MLA) Program聽for Fall 2019. MLAs serve as peer instructors, facilitating group work and assisting faculty as they transform their course to incorporate more […]

The University of 海角社区 is preparing to play host to a unique weekend of problem solving. U海角社区 is the site for America East Hackathon 2019. Known as Hack AE, the event takes place March 2-3 on the University of 海角社区 Campus in Orono. Scores of students from all over the country will be landing in […]

The 3rd annual America East hackathon, Hack AE, will take place on Saturday, March 2 鈥� Sunday, March 3, 2019 at the University of 海角社区. Hack AE is a 24-hour civic hackathon designed to bring America East students together to build software and hardware projects that address real-world challenges facing our neighborhoods, cities, states and […]

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Faculty, staff and teaching assistants are invited to submit proposals to present at the University Collaborative Faculty Institute on May 16th聽on the UMA campus. The focus of this year鈥檚 Institute聽 鈥淚nnovative Teaching and Learning with What we Have鈥� 鈥� focusing on creative ways that faculty have used tools like Zoom, Blackboard, Kaltura, Google Apps for […]

Friday, November 2 @ 3:00 pm聽–聽5:00 pm At the Hackerspace in the Memorial Union The聽U海角社区 Hackerspace聽is exciting to showcase the connection between the Internet of Thing (IoT) and small agriculture in a 2 hour showcase.聽 Low cost remote agricultural sensors, database management solutions, and apps are beginning to make an impact on small farms. Come […]

FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) will be performing a TEST of the Wireless Emergency Alerts System (WEA) in the form of a cell phone alert message at 2:18 PM this afternoon. Please be aware that this is ONLY a test. FEMA will also make a test of the better-known Emergency Alert System (EAS) over […]