Nicholas Micinski, Libra Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Maine, wrote an article for the Washington Post about the European Union granting Ukrainian refugees temporary protection in a departure from their response to past migrant crises. Micinski wrote, “The Ukraine crisis shows that the E.U. can and does cooperate […]
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Kessie Silas, Jamie Kane, Andy Bradley and Alli O’Neil, social work graduate students at the University of Maine, wrote an op-ed for the Bangor Daily News arguing that the state of Maine has the power to decrease the number of deaths from overdoses by expanding the Good Samaritan Law, which prevents a person who seeks […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a column co-written by Michelle de Leon, graduate student in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine. De Leon argues that listening to and sharing the stories of Indigenous peoples in Maine can influence change in tribal and nontribal communities.
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Michael Socolow, associate professor in the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism and director of the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, is the author of an opinion piece out this week in the Washington Post. Socolow argues that it’s not necessarily immoral or unethical to enjoy watching the Olympic Games. It is, […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Kenneth Hillas Jr., a retired senior diplomat who is an adjunct professor in the University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs. Hillas wrote that Russia’s objectives in the Ukraine crisis remain unclear, and President Vladimir Putin is keeping the West guessing.
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Erin Victor, a University of Maine doctoral student, titled “The case for a different kind of climate action.” Victor 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.
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Medical Xpress shared a news release about a new peer-reviewed editorial in the American Journal of Hypertension from University of Maine and University of Arkansas researchers. In the piece, they argued that using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure and may be especially useful in the management […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Paul Fink, a graduate research assistant with the VEMI Lab at the University of Maine, titled “Self-driving vehicles are our future. UMaine is showing how.” The op-ed highlights the potential benefits of autonomous vehicles and VEMI Lab’s research. Fink is a member of the Maine chapter of […]
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A column published in the Portland Press Herald highlighted Charles Scontras, renowned educator, author and labor historian who taught at the University of Maine for 36 years before passing away last year, and a bill that, if passed into law, would support the creation of a labor education center at the University of Southern Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed by Ian Mette, an associate professor of education leadership at the University of Maine, titled “Why education cannot be ahistorical.”
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