A Portland Press Herald editorial criticizing the European Union ban on imports of live Maine lobster cited Robert Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute. “I think what they’re saying, for the most part, is incorrect,” Bayer was quoted as saying in reference to claims by Swedish factions that American lobsters will […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Have a Maine problem? A UMaine student researcher can work on a solution,” by Jack McLachlan, a master’s student in ecology and environmental sciences and the vice president of the Graduate Student Government at UMaine. McLachlan researches the tidal freshwater wetlands of Merrymeeting Bay in the Kennebec […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Bioenergy from working forests is carbon-friendly, with many other benefits to Maine,” by Stephen Shaler, director of the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine; and Robert Wagner, the Henry W. Saunders Distinguished Professor in Forestry at UMaine. Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “Tax day, Monopoly and the American nightmare,” by Steve Barkan, a sociology professor at the University of Maine. Barkan also is a member of the Maine Regional Network, part of the Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges and their […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Here’s my big hope: One day, being born a female won’t be a curse,” by Reza Jalali, coordinator the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at the University of Southern Maine. Jalali is the author of “The Poets and the Assassin,” a play about women in Iran and […]
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The Boston Globe published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine, titled “Trump is trapped in the moment.”
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The Ellsworth American published the opinion piece, “The return of the ‘Know-Nothings?’” by Hugh Curran, who teaches courses in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the University of Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “The one day set aside for everyone to be Irish,” by Hugh Curran, who teaches courses in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at the University of Maine. Curran was born in Donegal, Ireland, and immigrated to Canada with his parents before moving to Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “What the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature will bring to UMaine,” by Laura Cowan, an associate professor and chair of the English department at the University of Maine; and Gregory Howard, assistant professor and graduate coordinator of the master’s program in English at UMaine. “The million […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Maine reinvents research to tackle ‘wicked problems,’” by Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Silka wrote that researchers working with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center are focusing on sustainable and complex collaborative research, which […]
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