Kathleen Mundell of the Maine Arts Commission discusses the effort to foster creativity in older Mainers in an interview with MPBN and in the latest issue of Maine Policy Review. Listen to the interview: http://news.mpbn.net/post/artists-join-effort-cultivate-creativity-aging-mainers#stream/0 Read Mundell’s article in MPR: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol24/iss2/18/
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Patricia Oh, coordinator of older adult services in Bowdoinham, spoke as part of a month-long series that focuses on the challenges faced by Maine’s increasing population of older adults and how public policy is addressing them. Oh and other guests in the series contributed to the Maine Policy Review’s “Special Issue on Aging,” produced by […]
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The first in a series of interviews with authors from the special issue on aging of Maine Policy Review is available. Interviews will be broadcast on Mondays throughout the month. This week Irwin Gratz of MPBN spoke with Julie Fralich, whose article “Shaping the Health and Long-Term-Care Infrastructure Serving Older Adults: Historical Trends and Future Directions” appeared […]
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MPBN’s radio series concludes with Irwin Gratz’ interview of Patty Counihan, former director of the University of Maine’s Career Center. Counihan’s essay for the Maine Policy Review issue on the humanities, entitled “What Are You Going to Do with ‘That’ Major?” discusses this key question for students. Listen to the MPBN interview here: http://news.mpbn.net/post/humanities-what-good-major Find Counihan’s MPR essay […]
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In part two of a radio series on the issue, MPBN Morning Edition host Irwing Gratz talks with Anna Sims Bartel about the role of the humanities in public policy. Bartel is associate director of Cornell University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Research and an author in the humanities issue of Maine Policy Review. See the article at MPBN: http://news.mpbn.net/post/humanities-how-they-can-help-shape-public-policy […]
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Interviews with authors of the most recent issue of MPR will be featured over the next few weeks on MPBN’s Morning Edition radio show with host Irwin Gratz. The current issue of MPR examines the role of the humanities in our lives. On this morning’s show Gratz spoke with Kirsten Jacobson, an associate professor of philosophy at the University […]
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Sylvia Most, one of the authors from the most recent issue of the Maine Policy Review (MPR), was interviewed by Irwin Gratz on MPBN’s Morning Edition. In response to a previous article suggesting that Maine college graduates lack science and technical skills, Most suggests that those skills could result from providing better technical education in high school. The interview aired […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed John Piotti, president and CEO of Maine Farmland Trust, about his article found in the the most recent Maine Policy Review. In the interview, Piotti noted what he discussed in the article: farmers in Maine will have to rely on experimentation and innovation to survive and thrive. The MPBN interview […]
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