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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Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial “There is value in education beyond high school, no matter where you go to school.” “We need people to be lifelong learners,” said Ferrini-Mundy. The goal is for higher education “to suit a […]
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World Politics Review listed Michael Socolow’s “The Trouble with TikTok” piece in its “Top Reads on China” roundup. WPR newsletter and engagement editor Benjamin Wilhelm wrote that Socolow, a University of Maine associate professor of communication and journalism, took American journalists to task for their uncritical coverage of TikTok — and for their use of […]
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Politico published Michael Socolow’s piece “The Trouble with TikTok: Journalists should not be promoting a platform with a documented history of political censorship.” While the quirky videos may seem relatively harmless, the University of Maine associate professor wrote that TikTok “relies on its users’ ignorance of its origins and practices. How many teens, or journalists, […]
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Why boxing disappeared after the Rumble in the Jungle — and why football could, too.”
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