Sarah Nelson, a researcher in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was interviewed last week for a segment on WERU radio’s “Talk of the Town” program. Along with representatives of Old Town High School and the Schoodic Education Research Center Institute, she discussed a collaborate project in mercury ecosystem science.
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Contact: Paul Myer, 581- 1992; Nory Jones, 581-1971; Harold Daniel, 581-1933 ORONO — Three University of Maine business school faculty members are available to discuss the implications of the potential cessation of telephone directory distribution in Maine, as is being done in a growing number of states, as consumers continue shifting to the Internet for […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — As the holiday shopping season jump-starts in the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 26 with bargain-hungry consumers expected to jam the aisles possibly in record numbers, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon is available to discuss trends, traditions and the economic importance of […]
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Comments from Deb Neuman, director of UMaine’s Target Technology Incubator, are included in a front-page Thursday Bangor Daily News story about Wednesday’s Invention to Venture conference. The UMaine technology incubator organized the conference, held in Orono. Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos spoke at the conference, lauding Maine and its people for the “can-do attitude” […]
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Contact: Jim Settele, 581-1835 “The Promise & Problems of Transparency” is the title of the William S. Cohen Papers Forum 2010 on Friday, Nov. 12, featuring a panel of journalists, government representatives and academics discussing an issue of importance to Maine’s former U.S. Representative, Senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, a Bangor native. […]
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Contact: Jim Settele, (207) 581-1835 The UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs will host Ambassador John K. Veroneau, former Deputy United States Trade Representative and a University of Maine alumnus, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. in the D.P. Corbett Business Building for a discussion on the law and politics of a global economy. He […]
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John Mahon of the UMaine business faculty provided live election analysis, looking at results from a business perspective, on Portland ABC affiliate WMTW Wednesday morning.
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Sandy Butler, professor of social work, and graduate assistant Alison Ashley will present information from their research on Tuesday, Nov. 2 into the worsening shortage of home health care aides at a time when needs are growing. They have interviewed women who work in these challenging, low-paying jobs to see why they stay and why […]
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Contact: Jim Settele, 581-1835 ORONO – The presidents of the University of Maine and Dickinson College, a top liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, have signed an articulation agreement to formalize academic collaboration in areas of mutual strength and interest. The new arrangement will facilitate priority admission of Dickinson students into the UMaine Master of Arts […]
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A Portland Press Herald opinion piece about the cost of welfare in Maine, written by Envision Maine President Alan Caron, cites research by UMaine economist Philip Trostel. Caron, who argues welfare spending is higher than stated in previous stories published in the Press Herald, included statistics that came from a report by Trostel.
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