A guest column by Allison Hepler in the Portland Press Herald recognized the University of Maine Cooperative Extension for connecting Maine’s agricultural producers directly with consumers during the pandemic, when restaurant and food service orders have significantly decreased.
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Ian Mette, associate professor of educational leadership, co-wrote an opinion piece for the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Get Schooled education blog titled “A generation endured test-centric schooling? Did it help?” The piece was co-authored with Carl Glickman, professor emeritus of education at the University of Georgia. Mette and Glickman wrote that school reform efforts aimed at […]
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An opinion piece by Lenard Kaye, professor of social work and director of the Center on Aging at the University of Maine, was featured in CentralMaine.com as part of a series authored by members of the Maine Scholars Strategy Network to address public policy challenges in Maine. Kaye’s column identified the obvious and subtle impacts […]
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Talking Points Memo (TPM) published Amy Fried’s analysis of the impact of ranked-choice voting on the U.S. Senate contest. The professor and chair of the Political Science Department explained how instant runoff voting and a ballot with more than two candidates could impact the outcome of the U.S. Senate race in Maine. If no candidate […]
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The Free Press, MDI Islander,VillageSoup, Penobscot Bay Pilot and Bangor Daily News posted a media release that registration is open at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center for more than 300 undergraduate and graduate courses in the fall 2020 semester. All courses will be provided remotely. The Hutchinson Center will be open by appointment to students needing access to Wi-Fi […]
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Sociology professor Steven Barkan penned a guest column about the Affordable Care Act that ran in the Bangor Daily News and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. “The repeal of Obamacare will not make America great again,” wrote Barkan. “Instead it will once more put us at the mercy of insurance companies, and it will worsen many […]
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Melissa Maginnis, an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an editorial about Maine’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maginnis leads the UMS Scientific Advisory Board.
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The Bangor Daily News published a column by University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias President Joan Ferrini-Mundy titled “100 days in, pandemic proves payoff of public investment in UMaine research.” She wrote, “When the life-or-death importance of good hand hygiene led to a global shortage in the supply of sanitizer early in […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by Jessica Miller, a professor of philosophy and associate dean for faculty affairs and interdisciplinary programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine, about balancing individual freedoms and collective rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Especially in times like these, we have […]
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Jordan LaBouff, an associate professor of psychology and honors at the University of Maine, and Charlotte Warren co-wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “What Maine can do to reduce police violence.” LaBouff is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the […]
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