The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “What could make a great nation greater: Medicare for all,” by Steven Barkan, a sociology professor at the University of Maine. Barkan is the author of “Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical Sociology,” published in August 2016. He also is a member of the Maine […]
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Darren Ranco, an anthropology professor and director of Native American Research at the University of Maine, was quoted in an Environmental Health News article about health violations at tribal water treatment plants. A new analysis conducted by Texas A&M University found tribal drinking water utilities and wastewater treatment plants are far less likely to be […]
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The National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) and Google.org have awarded the University of Maine $3,000 to establish a student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery-Women in Computing (ACM-W). UMaine is one of seven institutions to receive a 2016 NCWIT seed grant to develop a new a chapter of the ACM-W. The funding […]
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The Kennebec Journal spoke with Mark Brewer for a story about how communities across the state are preparing for Election Day. The University of Maine political science professor, who studies presidential campaigns, told the newspaper the 2016 race is one of the worst he has seen. “It’s one of the top five,” he said. “2016 […]
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The Portland Press Herald carried an Associated Press story, quoting University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer, on the Maine Democratic Party’s loss of millions of dollars in campaign donations from hedge fund manager and philanthropist S. Donald Sussman. “Any time you lose a donor of that magnitude, it’s a big deal, especially in […]
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The Christian Science Monitor quoted Mark Brewer in an article about Maine’s ranked-choice voting ballot initiative. If the initiative passes, it would enable voters to rank all the candidates in a race. If no one gets a majority, the votes of the last-place candidate would be apportioned out to the higher finishers according to second-place […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for the report, “Signs point to record-setting election turnout in Maine.” By the deadline, nearly 258,000 Maine voters had requested absentee ballots, and more than 218,000 had filled them out, according to the report. Brewer said those figures signal a […]
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Steve Evans, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, will be the closing speaker, and Jennifer Moxley, professor of English at UMaine, will be a featured poet at the bilingual conference, “Les archives sonores de la poésie: Production, conservation, utilisation (Recording in Progress: Producing, Preserving, and Using Recorded Poetry),” Nov. 24–25 in Paris. […]
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Tomorrow’s election will be a real-time learning laboratory for University of Maine students in an Introduction to Journalism class. The class, led by assistant professor and CLAS-preceptor journalism Joshua Roiland, is putting out the UMaine Telegraph, an online publication that will cover voting and election results in local, state and national races. Roiland’s 29 students […]
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Laura Cowan, chair of the University of Maine English Department and professor of English, will present Wednesday, Nov. 16 as part of Fogler Library’s “Books in My Life: Reading that Transforms” series. Cowan will speak at 7 p.m. in the Fogler Library Classroom. The event is open to any UMaine students, faculty or staff. In […]
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