Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, co-wrote an opinion piece with Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. The piece, titled “Affordable Care Act — Women’s history in the making,” was published by Huffington Post.
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The Bangor Daily News carried an op-ed coauthored by University of Maine student Samantha Perez. She and other members of Divest UMaine have encouraged the Investment Committee of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to stop investing endowment funds in the fossil fuel industry.
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The Portland Press Herald published a book review of “Sturge: A Memoir.” The book focuses on the life of Sturgis (Sturge) Haskins, a pioneer for gay rights who co-founded the University of Maine’s Wilde-Stein Club in 1974.
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The University of Maine’s on-campus housing policy was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News editorial on the need for the University of Maine System to offer more housing and decrease lightly used space. To accommodate a larger freshman class and to keep more sophomores on campus, recently UMaine announced it will give sophomores — as […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the sixth article in a yearlong 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. “First a parent, then a scholar: How this Maine […]
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Pamela Simpkins, a licensed social worker who is currently enrolled at the University of Maine in the master of social work program, wrote an analysis for the Sun Journal titled “We can make a difference in a child’s life.”
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The Bangor Daily News published the fifth article in a yearlong 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. “Going back to college at 50, and why it’s […]
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Boston.com, Seacoast Online, Winnipeg Free Press and WLBZ (Channel 2) carried an Associated Press report on the performance of an offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed last summer off Castine. Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, said the 65-foot-tall turbine has performed as engineers expected even as […]
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The Times Higher Education (London) published a weekly “From Where I Sit” column by Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine. The article, titled “Demonisation and hatred,” focuses on the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israel.
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Boston.com, WLBZ (Channel 2), WGME (Channel 13), San Antonio Express-News and News OK carried an Associated Press report about the University of Maine’s plans to deliver an update on the performance of its offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed last summer off Castine. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is […]
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