State Sen. Raye at UMaine Thursday
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — State Sen. Kevin Raye (R-Perry) will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Oct.12 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program.
Raye will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members.
The Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows program, which began last spring, brings Maine elected officials and senior policymakers to UMaine for intensive one-day programs through which they can learn more about UMaine, the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the work of the university’s faculty members and students. It is also intended to provide opportunities for UMaine students to have access to high-level public officials, through whom they can learn more about government and the development of public policy.
Raye, a former chief of staff in the Washington office of Sen. Olympia Snowe, represents all of Washington County, along with parts of Hancock and Penobscot counties.
News coverage possibilities include a lunch meeting with UMaine faculty members and student leaders from 12:10-1 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Totman Room. He will also visit food science testing and research facilities (Hitchner Hall, 11 a.m.-12 noon), UMaine’s Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (3-3:30 p.m.) and UMaine’s Student Innovation Center (3:30-3:45 p.m.).