The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Michael Haedicke, a University of Maine associate professor of sociology and faculty fellow with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about Question 3 on the Nov. 2 election referendum ballot. Haedicke is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, titled “Ignoring violence of far-right extremists has serious consequences for Maine and the nation.” Sporer serves as a principal investigator for the Department of Homeland Security’s National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology and Education Center and is a member […]
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Seacoastonline cited a report on Maine’s climate future authored by University of Maine climate scientists in a column highlighting the many impacts of severe drought, which the author describes as a natural disaster.
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A Portland Press Herald column advocating for inclusive pedagogies and describing the role of higher education in advancing women of color cited a 2019 report by Robert Dana, the University of Maine vice president of student life and inclusive excellence. The report, which was updated in 2020, indicated that 76% of UMaine faculty and staff […]
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A column about biomass published in The Bethel Citizen and The Franklin Journal cited research from the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests at the University of Maine. According to the center, as cited in the opinion piece, “the total stored biomass is roughly constant, thus maintaining the forest-based economic sector of Maine.”
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In a Centralmaine.com op-ed, University of Maine associate professors Jacquelyn Gill and Robert Glover, who are part of the Scholars Strategy Network, advocate for requiring vaccines and masks when staff and students return to UMaine this fall. The pair called on the Chancellor Dannel Malloy to protect staff and students and the communities surrounding the […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Jared Entwistle, a University of Maine graduate student studying ecology and environmental sciences and business administration, titled “Pandemic, patrons and packaging: Thoughts on our role in takeout culture.”
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Alan Berry, a Ph.D. student in communication and journalism at the University of Maine, advocates for digital equity in a Bangor Daily News op-ed that identifies a new, third-level digital divide. Berry notes that media literacy is key to ensuring digital equity.
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed by University of Maine graduate student Jules Hathaway titled “I’ve signed on to the Poor People’s Campaign. Here’s why.”
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A Bangor Daily News editorial titled “‘I’m just happy to be here’ should be the outlook for all generations’ referenced an earlier ceremony for the unveiling of a new plaque honoring World War II veterans in the University of Maine’s WWII Memorial Garden. A number of Maine’s WWII veterans participated.
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