Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center

This year on Margaret Chase Smith’s birthday, supersisters wishes her a happy birthday by including Sen. Smith in their trading card collection.

The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s Maine Government Internship Program, directed by Peggy McKee, was featured in Vol. 89 Iss. 9 (p. 23) of the Maine Municipal Association’s Journal Maine Town & City. The story covers what the program is, the learning experiences it offers, its results, and how to get involved.

In August, Piacentini graduated with a PhD in Anthropology and Environmental Policy. Before beginning his graduate studies at the University of Maine, his research investigated the ways in which conservation policies of protected areas — like national parks and wildlife management areas — impacted rural communities’ access to culturally important medicinal plants. At the University […]

Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center is pleased to share our annual report with the public. Click below to download the report.

Maine Policy Matters, the Center’s official podcast, is back for season four. This season will feature interviews with experts on timely topics relevant to the state of Maine. Episodes will include interviews with Ali Abedi, Peter Schilling, and Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh on AI in higher education and research; Rebecca Schaffner, Chris O. Yoder, Brian Kavanah, […]

TIME’s writer Melissa August cites Margaret Chase Smith’s presidential debate against Eleanor Roosevelt as “the first televised presidential debate.”

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 […]