UMaine News

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A new report on the knowledge economies of 287 cities in the United States and Canada shows that Portland, Maine, is a “Thinking Region,” according to Todd Gabe, professor of economics at the University of Maine and one of the study’s co-authors. The […]

Comments from Nory Jones of the UMaine Business School faculty are included in a Monday Maine Public Radio report about broadband Internet access and its importance for Maine economic development.

Comments from UMaine economist Todd Gabe are included in a Philadelphia Inquirer story based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report he wrote in collaboration with three other economists.  The report lists Philadelphia as a “thinking city.”  The study places regions in one of 11 clusters based on the kind of knowledge that drives their workforce.

“Knowledge in Cities,” a scholarly paper by UMaine economist Todd Gabe and three collaborators is listed as one of the week’s “interesting (examples of) economics research” in the Sept. 8 issue of The Economist.

The Maine Business School’s MBS Corps was represented by a group of 13 walkers and runners at Sunday’s Susan Komen Race for the Cure breast cancer fundraiser in Bangor.  MBA student Amy Sundberg organized the effort and MBA student Cassie Vaillancourt raised the most money.  Altogether, the MBS Corps raised $2,200. Photos of the group […]

UMaine School of Economics professor Todd Gabe was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story looking at the potential impact of an Oxford County casino on the Hollywood Slots facility in Bangor.  The Maine electorate will vote in November on whether to approve a casino in that western Maine county.