James Wilson, a University of Maine marine sciences professor, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Regulations have done little to boost cod in Gulf of Maine: Lobster management offers clear direction.” According to the editorial, regulators craft uniform rules to cover vast areas of the ocean; as if the ocean is a uniform […]
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Liam Riordan, a University of Maine history professor, board member of the Maine Humanities Council and director of the UMaine Humanities Center, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News. In his article, “The world needs the humanities, and UMaine is responding,” Riordan cited the UMaine Humanities Center’s third annual Downtown Bangor Public Humanities […]
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CounterPunch published an opinion piece by Doug Allen, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine, titled “Nelson Mandela: His meaning for us today.” The article includes a section about UMaine and Mandela where Allen writes about an effort that began in the 1970s to convince the University of Maine System to sell all of […]
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Sharon Tisher, a lecturer in the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Honors College, and Peter Mills, the executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority and a former state senator, wrote an opinion piece published by the Bangor Daily News titled “Bruce Poliquin has a chance to make his mark, emulate Maine’s environmental heroes.” […]
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Harold “Trey” Stewart III, a third-year University of Maine student majoring in political science and sociology, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “What I learned fighting to reclaim Maine elections for Mainers.” Stewart is the president of the General Student Senate and recently completed an internship at Maine Citizens for Clean […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the latest article in the yearlong “The People Next Door” series by Sandra Butler, a professor of social work at the University of Maine, and Luisa Deprez, a professor and department chair of sociology and women and gender studies at the University of Southern Maine. “She escaped domestic violence, but […]
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Times Higher Education recently published the column, “‘They’ has arrived at the pronoun party,” by Deborah Rogers, an English professor at the University of Maine.
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, and David Wihry, a research associate at the UMaine Center on Aging, wrote an opinion piece published by the Bangor Daily News titled “It’s time for a serious transportation policy for Maine’s older, disabled adults.” […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Without health insurance, Down East women subsist on the margins,” by Mary Shea, an assistant professor of nursing and graduate program coordinator at the University of Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News published the latest article in the yearlong “The People Next Door” series by Sandra Butler, a professor of social work at the University of Maine, and Luisa Deprez, a professor and department chair of sociology and women and gender studies at the University of Southern Maine. “Same bills, one-third of the […]
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