The Friends of Dr. Edith M. Patch honored SOE Students Michaela Murray, Kaitlyn Raffer, Emma Fox, and Afton Hupper at the 14th annual Earth Day Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Edith Marion Patch. EES Undergraduate and Honors student (and Econ Minor) Michaela Murray received one of two Undergraduate Edith Patch Awards and […]
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Faculty, staff, donors, friends and family honored outstanding undergraduate students in the School of Economics at the 2019 Awards Ceremony for Undergraduate Students (held on April 17, 2019). Interim Director Todd Gabe presided over the ceremony, assisted by Undergraduate Coordinator Travis Blackmer and Administrative Assistant Karen Moffett. The following undergraduate student awards were presented thanks […]
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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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SOE graduate student Angela Hallowell presented joint work with Dr. Crawley examining gender differences in business ownership at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association in Washington, DC SOE graduate student Angela Hallowell presented her paper co-authored with Assistant Professor Andrew Crawley “Gender Space or Place: What Drives Business Ownership in US […]
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SOE graduate student Sarah Welch presented joint work with Dr. Crawley assessing state labor markets at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association in Washington, DC SOE graduate student Sarah Welch presented her paper co-authored with Assistant Professor Andrew Crawley “How do economic cycles affect state-level labor matching efficiencies?” at the58th Annual […]
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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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Olga Bredikhina, a SOE graduate student, is studying consumer preferences for, and acceptance of aquaculture in Maine. Her research explores consumer preferences for seafood attributes, as well as citizens’ preferences for the proximity of residential property to different types of coastal usages. Olga is collaborating with co-advisors, Dr. Caroline Noblet and Dr. Keith Evans, on […]
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Avery Cole, a SOE graduate student, is studying how large-scale changes in marine aquaculture will impact other coastal resource markets including the housing market. Using housing market data, he and collaborators are looking at what home buyers were willing to pay for properties in communities with aquaculture leases and compared those values to homes in […]
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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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