The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by Lenard Kaye, University of Maine professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging, highlighting a lack of knowledge about hospice and end of life care services among the public and medical providers in the Bangor area. Kaye is a founding member of the […]
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Kimberley Miner co-wrote the opinion piece “Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up” in Scientific American. The assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute writes that in Siberia and northern Canada, the abrupt thaw has created sunken landforms, or thermokarst — where the oldest and deepest permafrost is exposed to the warm air for the […]
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The Bangor Daily News printed an opinion by Quinn Galletta, a fourth-year journalism and political science student at the University of Maine, lauding the University of Maine System’s handling of the pandemic and praising fellow students for maintaining a safe learning environment while sustaining campus spirit.
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The Bangor Daily News published a column by Michael Delorge and Julia Whinston, University of Maine undergraduate students and UMaine UVote ambassadors, about youth voting. In a column invited by the Scholars Strategy Network, the pair argued that young voters have the motivation and the numbers to elevate issues such as college debt, climate change […]
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Forbes highilighted the $240 million allocation from the Harold Alfond Foundation to the University of Maine System in an opinion piece about a new trend in gifts to higher education institutions. The Alfond investment in the University of Maine System is the largest ever to a public institution of higher education in New England and […]
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In advance of national media literacy week Oct. 26–30, a Bangor Daily News opinion piece by Alan Berry, University of Maine instructor and member of the Maine chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, promoted media literacy and advanced the virtual news literacy challenge sponsored by UMaine’s Fogler Library.
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Ryan LaRochelle, University of Maine lecturer at the Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service, Rob Glover, associate professor of political science, and Brieanne Berry, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology contributed to an opinion published by Centralmaine.com. In the column, “What’s at Stake in the November Election,” LaRochelle and Glover expressed perspectives from the Scholar Strategies […]
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Tora Johnson, who chairs the Division of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the University of Maine at Machias, spoke with The Maine Monitor about addressing equity issues in storm preparedness as climate change intensifies storms and flooding. Johnson, also director of the Geographic Information Systems Laboratory and Service Center and associate professor of GIS at […]
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Stephen Shaler, director of the School of Forest Resources and associate director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, spoke with The Maine Monitor about comparing the carbon footprint of wood to other building materials. Shaler, also a professor of wood sciences, was featured in a “Sea Change” commentary piece […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Farm and Seafood Products Directory was highlighted in a recent guest column published in the Portland Press Herald. UMaine Extension worked with Allison Lakin, owner of East Forty Farm and Dairy, and Lakin’s Gorges Cheese in Waldoboro, to develop the database of Maine farmers’ creative distribution strategies implemented […]
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