Sandra Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Penny Bishop, dean of the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development, were interviewed by the Portland Press Herald for an article about why many teachers in Maine are not incorporating LGBTQ education in the classroom despite […]
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News Center Maine reported on a survey by the Maine Film Association and the University of Maine School of Economics professor Todd Gabe that shows Maine’s film production industry has driven an annual $64 million economic impact for the state. The survey collected data from the industry’s 2019 revenue, as well as data from the […]
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Jonathan Rubin, director of the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and professor at the School of Economics, spoke to News Center Maine about the underlying issues in relying on nuclear energy for decarbonization. “I think siting of public assets, either wind turbines or nuclear plants or wastewater treatment plants, all these things […]
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Michael Socolow, media historian and associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was a guest on the WERU 89.9 show “Talk of the Towns”, during which he and producer and host Ron Beard talked about the changing media landscape in Maine and elsewhere.
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Mark Brewer and Amy Fried, University of Maine professors of political science, for an article about Maine’s efforts to combat voting misinformation. “The Republican base, which still adamantly supports Trump, eats that stuff up and they believe it. So if you’re a Republican running for office in 2022 and you want […]
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Alan Cobo-Lewis, associate professor of psychology and director of the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, spoke to the Maine Beacon about the importance of raising direct care worker wages in order to eliminate large waitlists for various home or community-based care services. Cobo-Lewis said that even the long-sought raise to $15.94 an hour […]
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Bored Panda cited an interview with Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology at the University of Maine and the author of “Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family & Creating a New Age of Independence.” Blackstone said that the child-free lifestyle is more popular because more people are aware of it as an option than ever […]
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The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium — in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center — today announced six projects to advance social science and technology research on offshore renewable energy in the Northeast United States. This funding opportunity, first announced […]
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Brad Pitman, assistant professor of sociology, wrote an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News examining the implementation of a law requiring police agencies to have homelessness crisis response protocols in Maine. Pitman writes that the new law may be well-intentioned, but might have the unintended consequence of increasing police surveillance of the growing number of […]
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The Versant Power Astronomy Center will host a free summer camp for youth ages 10–14 through What-If Hypothetical Implementations in Minecraft (WHIMC), a National Science Foundation-funded research project and interdisciplinary collaboration dedicated to attracting young people to science through cutting-edge and impactful informal learning. Participants will use Minecraft Java Edition to explore astronomy via space […]
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