SOE Graduate Students Kathryn Bowen and Elinor Hunt recently presented their research at the Southern Regional Science Meetings in Washington, DC. Kathryn Bowen presented her research paper, A Reinvestigation of Biotechnology and Regional Labor Markets: Have industrial shifts altered labor demand. Elinor Hunt presented her research paper, How has AI impacted the manufacturing sector in […]

SOE Undergraduate Student Adeline Stone recently presented research at the 2024 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Stone presented research done in collaboration with students and faculty from the University of Maine, Bowdoin College, and University of Southern Maine. The poster, Communicating Resilience: Innovative rural municipal digital communication, summarized research Stone has done as an undergraduate […]

SOE Undergraduate Student Mel Godin recently presented her senior capstone research at the 2024 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Godin’s poster, Trust in Science and Institutions in Maine, summarized her independent capstone research with Dr. Caroline Noblet. Congratulations Mel Godin!

The School of Economics (SOE) congratulates M.S. student Ana María Ospina Tobar on her successful completion of graduate studies in Resource Economics and Policy. Ana María engaged in multiple activities during her time at UMaine. She excelled academically, participated in extracurricular activities with UMaine’s International Programs, and attended multiple seminars and talks organized by the […]

Ana Ospina Tobar successfully defended her M.S. thesis. In her thesis research, The influence of framing and recent experience on farmer choices in experimental games depicting risk-reducing agricultural technologies, she innovatively integrated insights from microeconomics, experimental economics, and behavioral economics to better understand farmer decision-making and assess the effectiveness of games as public education tools. In […]