Sharon Klein, University of Maine associate professor of economics, contributed to Paul Hockenos’ opinion piece on CNN titled “The Green New Deal doesn’t require a tsunami of government funding.” While prices of solar power, wind power and batteries are low, “renewable energy should be spreading like wildfire across the United States. But although many states […]
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The Bangor Daily News published Rob Glover’s op-ed “Look to Portugal to address the opioid crisis.” He advised the United States and Maine could learn from Portugal’s approach to its nightmarish situation in the 1990s, when roughly 1 in 10 individuals was using heroin. “Portugal’s prisons brimmed with those convicted of drug-related crime. High-risk behaviors […]
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The Portland Press Herald mentioned the University of Maine in its editorial about Northern Light Health’s initiative to research Alzheimer’s, dementia and other cognitive diseases related to aging. “In the oldest state in the nation, finding a cure has never been more important,” the editorial board wrote. “Maine is a good location for such research, […]
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University of Maine historian Anne Knowles was one of more than 140 Holocaust scholars, historians and genocide experts who signed an open letter urging the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to retract its “Statement Regarding the Museum’s Position on Holocaust Analogies” that condemned the use of Holocaust analogies. The letter ran in The New York […]
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Amy Blackstone, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Maine leads on reproductive freedom.” Blackstone is a member of the of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by Amanda Bertana, an environmental sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maine, titled “Think globally, act locally: Mainers are changing the world.” Bertana is the postdoctoral fellow for the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to […]
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Jordan LaBouff, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Integrating immigrants into Maine’s workforce benefits us all.” LaBouff is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges […]
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Jon Bomar, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Confronting the graduate student mental health crisis.” Bomar is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges […]
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University of Maine alumna Jessica Muhlin, an associate professor of marine biology at Maine Maritime Academy, and Susan Brawley, a UMaine professor of plant biology and marine sciences, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Science should be heeded: Rockweed is not a plant.”
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The New York Times published a letter to the editor by Steven Barkan, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine. In the letter, Barkan responded to a Times article about the politics surrounding the death penalty.
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