Susan Gardner, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Rising Tide Center at the University of Maine; and Samantha Saucier, an undergraduate student and co-director of the Women’s Resource Center at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Misogynist banners normalize campus rape culture. There’s nothing funny […]
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The Washington Post published the opinion piece “Gawker has been gone for a year. We’ve never needed it more than now,” by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine.
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The Portland Press Herald published the opinion piece “Let the Stars and Bars stay forever furled in favor of the flag of the free,” by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine.
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Allyson Eslin, who is pursuing a dual master’s in economics and global policy at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “When women lead, everyone prospers.” In her piece, Eslin cited Maine NEW Leadership, a weeklong, intensive leadership program offered in June at the University of Maine for […]
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The Boston Globe published the opinion piece “Liberals, cut your cable cords,” by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine.
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Jerome Nadelhaft, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “The long, dark history of violence against women.”
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, wrote a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter titled, “It’s O.J. Simpson’s world; we’re just living in it.” CNN cited the column in the article, “O.J. Simpson hearing: A blast from media past.”
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece about the Paris climate agreement by Michael Howard, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine. Howard is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges and their policy implications. Members’ columns […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an opinion piece by Charles Scontras, a historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, titled “We should elevate the status of work in the modern economy.”
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The Portland Press Herald editorial, “More needy children in Maine deserve quality early care,” cited a study by Philip Trostel, a University of Maine economist. Trostel’s study, “Path to a Better Future: The Fiscal Payoff of Investment in Early Childhood in Maine,” recommends full-time education for children from birth to age 5, estimating that it […]
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