Laurie Lachance at UMaine Wednesday
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Laurie Lachance, president and CEO of the Maine Development Foundation, will visit the University of Maine on Wednesday, April 30 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program.
Lachance 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.
Lachance has been in her current role since 2004. She served as the Maine state economist for eleven years, and spent ten years working as a Central Maine Power economist. Lachance is a Dover-Foxcroft native who earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Thomas College.
News coverage possibilities include a presentation on tidal energy at the Aquaculture Center wave tank (9:30-10 a.m.), a tour of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (10:15-10:45 a.m.), a presentation on forest bioproducts energy research in Jenness Hall (11-11:45 a.m.) and a tour of UMaine’s Foster Student Innovation Center (1:30-2 p.m.).