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SOE alum and cooperating faculty member, Ewa Kleczyk, has two new articles

Improving Accuracy in Rare Disease Patient Identification Using Pattern Recognition Ensembles Tim Hare, Sr. Manager, CE-Analytics, Symphony Health Solutions; Pratibha Sharan, Senior Consultant, Commercial Effectiveness Team, Symphony Health Solutions; Ewa J. Kleczyk, PhD, Vice President of Client Analytics, Symphony Health Solutions; Derek Evans, Sr. Vice President & General Manager, Symphony Health Solutions  Clinical In-Market Leading […]

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Maine Public interviews Rubin about reducing road salt use

Maine Public spoke with Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and professor of resource economics and policy at the University of Maine, for a report about reducing road salt use in the state. “The key is to be smarter about this and use less by better management,” said Rubin, who was the […]

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Sustaining Cooperation in the Local Food Economy

Dr. Waring and his research team presented their ongoing work on local food systems and cooperation at the Mitchell Center for Sustianbility Solutions on November 20th. Master’s student Afton Hupper, PhD Student Taylor Lange, and Stakeholder Jeremy Bloom of Buying Club Software  presented their new work together. Seminar Abstract Sustainable solutions are not always win-win. […]

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Dr. Waring gives lecture on The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems

Professor Waring presented his research on the evolution of social-ecological systems at the SEANET speaker series this week. His lecture, “The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems” explains how human cooperation dynamics often determine if and how people manage the environmental resources sustainably. Seminar Abstract To solve the modern environmental predicament we must understand how humans created […]

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Professor Waring’s New Theory of Sustainability

Professor Tim Waring has unveiled a new theory he and collaborators have spent the last five years developing. Waring is an associate professor of social-ecological systems modeling in the School of Economics and the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine – it’s literally his job to build and test sustainability theory. […]

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Kofi Britwum, Postdoctoral Research Associate, published

Kofi Britwum is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Economics and just recently had his research published. The paper titled “A field experiment on consumer willingness to accept milk that may have come from cloned cows” can be found online.

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SOE Faculty and Students Take Lead in Helping Mainers Save on Energy Costs

A video and article by WABI 5 highlights the work that students and faculty in the School of Economics put into their communities. In partnership with Window Dressers, a Non-Profit located in Rockland, students are learning how to build window inserts that Mainers will use to save money on heating this upcoming winter. Watch the video to see […]

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