Research conducted last year by a group of graduate students in the University of Maine’s social work program was mentioned in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “One way to address Maine’s drug epidemic: Maximize treatment access we already have.” The students reached out to the physicians in Maine who are listed by the U.S. Substance […]
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A Portland Press Herald editorial lauded the University of Maine’s Flagship Match program that allows academically qualified students from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to attend UMaine for the same price they would pay to go to their home state’s flagship university. “Used strategically, tuition decreases for attractive students from other […]
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The Boston Globe published the editorial, “What UMaine can teach UMass,” about the University of Maine’s Flagship Match, a competitive scholarship program that guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and fee rate as their home state’s flagship institution. According to the editorial, some Massachusetts students could save about […]
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Sharon Tisher, a lecturer in the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Honors College, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “How Collins, King, Pingree, Poliquin scored on climate change in 2015.” Tisher is a member of the Maine chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Why we should be hopeful about the Paris climate pact.” The climate accord reached this month in Paris sets an international goal of limiting the increase of the global average temperature, but the accord […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “We’ve viewed nature as something to dominate. Now, we live with consequences,” by Doug Allen, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine.
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News, titled “Leadership should guide American response to refugee crisis.” Glover is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Now is the time for Maine communities to step up, become age-friendly.” Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy […]
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Stefano Tijerina, an adjunct assistant professor in history and political science at the University of Maine; and Howard Cody, a professor emeritus of political science and Canadian studies at UMaine, co-wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Under Trudeau, will nationalism or business as usual reign in Canada?”
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The Portland Press Herald published the opinion piece “Is a graduation speaker’s wisdom really worth an outlandish fee?” by Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine.
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