New Issue of Maine Policy Review, MPR 26(1)
The latest issue of Maine Policy Review is now available for download on Digital Commons. To see a list of article titles and brief abstracts for MPR Volume 26, number 1, click here.
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New Issue of Maine Policy Review
The latest issue of Maine Policy Review is now available for download on Digital Commons. MPR Volume 25, number 2, features an essay from Maine Sen. Angus King on climate change and articles on topics of healthcare, bond referenda, international trade, and municipal waste reduction. Commentaries address the Arctic Council, the presidential election, and financial literacy. This […]
Read moreNew Issue of Maine Policy Review
The latest issue of Maine Policy Review is now available on Digital Commons. Volume 25, number 1, features articles and commentaries on topics of waste management in Maine, immigration and demographic changes, drug-induced mortality in the state, the proposed park in Maine’s north woods, and community development. This issue also includes the 2015 Margaret Chase Smith Library high school essay contest […]
Read moreAuthor from Maine Policy Review issue on aging is interviewed on MPBN’s Morning Edition
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/
Read moreMPBN airs latest in series focusing on aging, Maine Policy Review
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 […]
Read moreMaine’s Aging Population
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 […]
Read moreNew Issue of Maine Policy Review
A new issue of Maine Policy Review is now available for download. Read the press release here. Volume 24, Issue 2 (2015) Aging is available for download from Digital Commons.
Read moreHumanities, Careers, and MPR on the Radio
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 […]
Read moreHumanities and Public Policy on MPBN radio
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 […]
Read moreMaine Policy Review in the News
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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