Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7920; Jaye Martin, Legal Services for the Elderly, (207) 621-0087 ORONO — A recent study of legal needs of aging Mainers by the University of Maine Center on Aging has confirmed that the number of older people needing legal services will outweigh available resources in the future. Up to half of […]
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UMaine business professors John Mahon and Anne Canabal were quoted in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the impact of foreign investment on Maine’s economy. The story is based on the news that at Hong Kong-based investment group is buying the pulp mill in Baileyville.
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UMaine economist Todd Gabe has an op-ed in Friday’s Portland Press Herald about his recent study in which he detailed the potential economic impact of the proposed Oxford County resort casino. Gabe addresses the issue of whether or not the casino would bring in new revenues to Maine.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which […]
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The Bangor Daily News followed U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud on Thursday as he visited two Hancock County businesses working with UMaine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance and Hugh Stevens of the UMaine School of Economics. Stevens is quoted in the story.
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Mainebiz published a report based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report co-authored by Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty. The report looks at the workforce in nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian studies and categorizes them according to 11 groups devised by the study’s authors. The study puts Portland in the “Thinking Region” […]
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Contact: Paula Burnett, (207) 262-7926 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging recently received two grants from the United Way of Eastern Maine to continue two popular programs, the Center’s RSVP organization of community volunteers over the age of 55, and the RSVP Bone Builders exercise education program. The Center on Aging RSVP […]
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Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty is quoted in a CNNMoney story about U.S. cities with the highest percentages of residents with a college degree. Gabe provided comments about the link between educational attainment and earning potential.
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Comments from Sandra Butler of the UMaine social work faculty are included in a New York Times “The New Old Age” blog post about concerns faced by older gay men and women in long-term relationships. Examples include issues related to inheritance and tax laws, along with access, as a couple, to long-term health care benefits […]
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Contact: Peter Fandel, 581-1835 ORONO — F. William Smullen, III, a 1962 UMaine graduate and director of National Security Studies at Syracuse University, will address the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 a.m. at the Bangor Public Library. The title of Smullen’s talk is “A Decade of Crisis and Correction.” According to […]
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