Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center

JSTOR Daily, an online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship, featured an annotated version of Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience.”

The Maine Monitor spoke to Daniel Soucier, a research associate at the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, about the benefit of having medication like naloxone that rapidly counteracts drug overdoses available in schools. ”In a lot of ways it’s like having a fire extinguisher on site or say a life preserver on a […]

The University of Maine Center on Aging and the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute have formed a new policy partnership in association with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center to focus exclusively on aging-related policy issues in Maine. The new Consortium for Aging Policy Research and Analysis (CAPRA) will provide a “go-to” entity […]

Jim Melcher is a professor of Political Science at the University of Maine at Farmington. Every September for Constitution Day at UMF, he reviews Supreme Court cases from the previous term. Because he spoke at the Library in May this year, he was able to cover four cases from the previous term and three from […]

Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s official podcast, Maine Policy Matters, is set to launch Season 4 at the end of August 2023. Season 4 will feature panels with specialists and community members on topics like moose and ticks, the Clean Water Act, AI in higher education, and investing in teachers. Meanwhile, the collection of MPM episodes can […]

Maine Policy Review is pleased to announce the release of a special section titled “50 Years of the Clean Water Act.” This section commemorates the significant milestone of half a century since the enactment of the Clean Water Act and highlights Maine’s efforts to improve water quality and the need to maintain and strengthen water […]

Maine Policy Review’s special issue examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maine is now available in both print and on MPR’s Digital Commons site. A brief look at this issue is available on MPR’s website. The articles in MPR, Vol. 30, No. 2, fall into three broad categories. Several articles examine the measurable […]