SOE faculty member Dr. Keith Evans received a 2019 GSG Graduate Faculty Mentor Award at today’s Faculty Mentor Appreciation Ceremony. The GSG Graduate Faculty Mentoring Awards are given each year to outstanding mentors of graduate students in each of the University of Maine’s five colleges. Dr. Evans was this year’s outstanding mentor from the College […]
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Congratulations to SOE students Ari Castonguay, Afton Hupper, Eric Miller, Jonathan Gendron, Muntasir Rahman, George Voigt, Thi Nguyen and Dominic Gayton for doing an outstanding job presenting their research at the 7th Annual Maine Economics Conference which was held at Bates College in Lewiston on April 27, 2019. SOE Graduate Student Muntasir Rahman’s presentation was […]
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SOE is thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Sharon Klein is the 2019 recipient of the Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence is Maine Campus Compact’s most prestigious faculty award. The Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence recognizes faculty who integrate community or […]
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Students from the School of Economics excelled at the 2019 UMaine Student Symposium. We proudly acknowledge the research accomplishments of these students (and their faculty advisors). SOE undergraduate students presenting their research at the symposium included: Dominic Gayton (Dr. Angela Daley); Betsy Spear (Dr. Andrew Crawley); Quinn Jones (Dr. Caroline Noblet); Erin Brown (Dr. Caroline Noblet); and Nick Alvarez […]
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On Tuesday April 4, 2019, Dr. Tim Waring will deliver a seminar at the Lorenz Institute for the Advanced Study of Complex Natural Systems in Vienna, Austria. The seminar, entitled “The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems” is provides a deep-time, evolutionary perspective on the anthropogenic sustainability crisis, and derives lessons from human evolution to help us […]
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The Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence is Maine Campus Compact’s most prestigious faculty award. The Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence recognizes faculty who integrate community or public service into the curriculum and work to institutionalize service-learning. Recipients of the award show clear evidence of reflection, community benefit, and reciprocity with community […]
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Professor Kathleen Bell presented joint work Assistant Professor Caroline Noblet “Environmental change and recreation demand: Assessing interactions between beach width and beach recreation demand” at the W4133 (Costs and Benefits of Natural Resources on Public and Private Lands) Annual Meeting, in Santa Fe, New Mexico February 20-22, 2019. Bell and Noblet collaborated with Maine’s Coastal […]
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Professor Jonathan Rubin organized and presided over the session “Connected and Automated Vehicle Energy and Emissions Implications,” at the Transportation Research Board, 98th Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC January 13–17, 2019. The Transportation Research Board is one of seven program units of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which provides independent, objective analysis and advice […]
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The Future of Dams team was just published in PNAS, found here, co-authored by Dr. Klein. The Future of Dams project supported in part by a $6 million, 4-year National Science Foundation EPSCoR grant, is a multistate, interdisciplinary research initiative focused on developing a methodology for making these important decisions about the future of dams.
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Dr. Sharon Klein, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics, co-authored a recently published article in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews: Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions from dams in the United States of America, which is a critical review of existing hydropower life cycle assessments and reservoir emission studies that compares the greenhouse gas emissions of different dam types based […]
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