Attorney General Rowe at UMaine Feb. 26
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Maine Attorney General G. Steven Rowe will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Feb. 26 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program.
Rowe will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members.
The Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows Program, which began in the spring of 2006, 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.
A former Speaker of the Maine House, Rowe has been the state’s attorney general since January, 2001. He is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law.
News coverage possibilities exist during the 1-4:15 p.m. time frame, when Rowe will visit several UMaine facilities: the Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research in Norman Smith Hall (1-2 p.m.); the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (2:15-3 p.m.); the Forest Bioproducts Refinery Initiative in Jenness Hall (3:10-3:50 p.m.); the Foster Student Innovation Center (4-4:20 p.m.)