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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Jack Shafer cited University of Maine media historian Michael Socolow in a Politico opinion piece titled “Tom Cotton Did Us a Favor by Exposing a Bad Law with a Bad Op-Ed.” Sen. Cotton had penned a New York Times op-ed titled “Send in the Troops” in response to protests against racism and police brutality. Readers […]
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The Bangor Daily News published Michael Socolow’s opinion piece “Caught in the Crossfire: Journalism’s ‘Objectivity’ Problem in Times of Civil Unrest” that was first a guest blog on Ralph E. Hanson’s Living in a Media World site dedicated to current news on journalism and mass communication issues. “Every attack on a working journalist is an […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column from Mitch Mason, an associate extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, titled “Refugee and asylum seekers in Maine are future volunteers.” Mason, a 4-H Youth and Family Development extension educator, is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a guest column by Lenard Kaye, a professor of social work and director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, titled “Older adults are facing dual public health emergencies.” Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the […]
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece from Michael Socolow, an associate professor in communication and journalism at the University of Maine, titled “The media must make it easier to track President Trump’s covid-19 failures.” Socolow will become the director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at UMaine in July.
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