An opinion piece in The New York Times about campuses that have stopped investing in fossil fuel included the University of Maine. “After pressure from student groups, Stanford announced in 2014 that it would not make direct investments in publicly traded companies whose principal business is coal mining. The University of Maine followed suit in […]
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University of Maine sociology professor Steven Barkan was quoted in a recent Bangor Daily News editorial titled “With funding for gun research, safety measures should be a priority for study.” As part of a $1.4 trillion spending plan approved in December, Congress — for the first time in 20 years — approved federal funding for […]
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Linda Silka, senior fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Holidays bring gifts and good cheer — and a lot of trash.” Silka is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, […]
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The Conversation published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows.” The Alton Telegraph, MarketWatch and Salon also published the piece.
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Caroline Bicks, a professor of English at the University of Maine, co-wrote a humor column for McSweeney’s with Michelle Ephraim, an associate professor in humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The column was titled “I am Lady Macbeth, and your Facebook post about your kid’s early acceptance to Harvard really pisses me off.”
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The Ellsworth American published an opinion piece by Hugh Curran, an associate professor of education at the University of Maine. The piece was titled “Hate is not science-based.”
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East Asia Forum published Kristin Vekasi’s column titled “Weaponised interdependence and the Japanese private sector.” Vekasi is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs. “From trade barriers to financial sanctions, it’s increasingly common to see economic interdependence deployed for political goals,” she wrote. “This type of […]
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The Conversation published a piece by Sue Ishaq, an assistant professor of animal and veterinary sciences at the University of Maine, titled “Inequity takes a toll on your gut microbes too.” The Telegraph in Alton, Illinois also published the piece.
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Andrea Mercado, a doctoral student in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Childhood trauma can slow academic development. Here’s one way to fix it.” Mercado is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and its publication Maine Policy Review have created a new digital publication series titled “Maine Policy Perspectives.” The online forum consists of a roundtable discussion of pressing policy issues that are under debate by policymakers at the local, regional, national and international levels. Adhering to the […]
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