Kristin Vekasi, associate professor at the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine, testified in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission on her research about rare earth policies on June 9, 2022. A copy of her testimony can be found online. Vekasi testified that […]
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News Center Maine reported that Margaret Chase Smith, a groundbreaking politician who represented Maine in the United States Congress for more than 30 years, now has her own room in the U.S. Capitol. Smith was the first woman to serve in both chambers of the Congress, and was the first woman to represent Maine in […]
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Lynn Dwelley from Lincoln, Maine is a double major in psychology with a concentration in abnormal/social psychology, and in sociology, and a minor in mental health and rehabilitation. Dwelley has received the Maine Top Scholar award and is a James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior. Last year, Dwelley was a research assistant in the Peer Relations […]
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The Dublin Inquirer cited a book by Timothy Reagan, professor of foreign language education at the University of Maine, in a report about South African citizens being refused passage without a visa on the airline Ryanair because they are not able to complete a quiz in Afrikaans. Reagan’s 2019 book “Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice” […]
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Emily Dunlap from Old Town, Maine is a rising fourth-year music education major with an instrumental concentration. She is also in the Honors College. Dunlap has received the Thomas E. Lynch Honors Fellowship, been recognized as a James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior and is an alumni member of the 2021 Macy’s Great American Alumni Marching […]
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In an article listing the quintessential books from every state, NPR highlighted “‘Still They Remember Me’: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1” co-authored by Margo Lukens, University of Maine professor of English. The collection features 13 traditional Penobscot tales presented in the Penobscot language alongside their English translations, originally told by storyteller Newell Lyon to anthropologist […]
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Cynthia Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, was interviewed by the Maine Monitor about emissions that are often overlooked in accounting greenhouse gasses. Isenhour explained that oversights in emissions accounting can lead to an unjust form of “global burden shifting.” She said that it’s essential to understand “not […]
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The University of Maine is leading an innovative new research project to collaborate with Maine’s lobster industry to explore the potential to use data owned by commercial lobstermen to map fishing effort. These data may be used to minimize conflict from potential future offshore wind development. The state of Maine has set an aggressive goal […]
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Amy Blackstone, professor in sociology at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine and author of Childfree by Choice, was interviewed by Refinery29 in an article about doctors refusing to provide women with endometriosis proper treatment if it might compromise their fertility. “What’s shocking to me about this is how many […]
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Robert Glover, associate professor of political science and honors at the University of Maine, wrote an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News about the prevalence of gun violence in Maine. “Gun violence is here. It is costly. It is devastating. There is no cultural or social protective bubble rendering us immune from the grisly murder […]
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