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News & Events
April 3, 2008: Charles
Colgan and Samuel Merrill, Muskie School of Public Service, and Jonathan
Rubin, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center deliver a white paper
for today's Governor's Energy Efficiency Summit entitled Energy
Efficiency, Business Competitiveness, and Untapped Economic
Potential in Maine.
(Download PDF, 577KB)
Media: Forbes.com
Jan-March, 2008: 2008
Legislative Mini-Forums: Bridging Research & Policy in Maine.
Under the auspices of the Legislative Council, these mini-forums are
designed specifically for legislators to discuss critical issues
with each other and researchers in an open, participatory
environment (updated Mar 17, 2008).
February 26, 2008:
Attorney General Steven Rowe at UMaine as part of the Margaret Chase
Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program
(more
information)
January 23, 2008. Mary
Cathcart OpEd piece in the Bangor
Daily News on the importance of science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) education to Maine's economic future.
Cathcart, a former four-term State Senator, also serves as chair of the New England Board of Higher Education
January 5, 2008. Marcella
Sorg reports on Maine Drug-Related Deaths and the rise of
cocaine-related deaths in Maine. Bangor
Daily News, Boston
Globe,
November
11-13, 2007. Jonathan Rubin spoke at the recent Northeast Sun
Grant regional Feedstock Summit, entitled "Maine
Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative and Green Chemistry:
Opportunities for Bioproducts"
October 26, 2007: Jonathan
Rubin presented information on Potatoes to Plastic at a USM summit
on green chemistry and bio-based manufacturing in Maine. Green
Ideas Go Under Microscope; Bangor
Daily News.
September 19, 2007: Conference
to Focus on Improving University-Community Engagement (The
University of Maine).
September
26, 2007: Strengthening Universities & Community
Through Engagement. (registration
materials and more information)
University
of Maine|Bangor
Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC)
Visit our new website
Potatoes
to Plastic: Kate
Dickerson and Jonathan Rubin
participated
in a June 5, 2007 press conference regarding
an analysis to produce bio-based fabrics from Maine grown potatoes. The event was covered
locally by Bangor
Daily News, Portland
Press Herald, and WLBZ2/WCSH6
and included two WBZ Boston radio
interviews: Don Flannery, Executive Director of the Maine Potato
Board, and Kate Dickerson, MSCPC. The Boston
Herald article was picked up by AP news sources across the
country including Discovery Channel, MSNBC, CBS News, Newsday,
Washington Post, Forbes, FOX News. News articles appeared in
Virginia, Arizona, Wyoming, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska -- as well as Australia.
Susan
Gendron, Maine education
commissioner, will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, April
19 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished
Maine Policy Fellows Program. read
more 4/17/07
Glenn
Beamer,
a former Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, author and political
science professor at Rutgers University, recently was named
director of the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith
Policy Center. Glenn took over from Interim Director Charles
Morris in January... read
more. 4/06/07.
In
February, some
of Maine's leading experts on environmental policy participated in a
conference on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
RGGI aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity
sector by ten percent below 2009 levels by 2019.
More information about the conference, news, and presentations
are available
online. (February 2007)
Mary Cathcart wins 2006 Maryann Hartman Award. story.
(November 2006)
Media
Ann Acheson.
WERZ radio
interview Common Health: Inequality and Health audiolink
(.mp3) 57:53 minutes, 12/20/06
Ann
Acheson. quoted in "Rural Maine Scrambles in Midst of a Propane Shortage"
New York Times. 11/24/07.
Philip
Trostel. OpEd.
Inmate,
student spending surprise. Bangor Daily News, 11/18/06
Ann
Acheson. 2006 Poverty in Maine quoted in The
Lincoln County News. Vol 122(14). October 18, 2006.
Philip
Trostel Interviews
Maine's
State- and Local-Government Payroll and Expenditure
October 2006 (pdf, 427KB);
MPBN
"Maine
Things Considered - 10/05/06"
(Windows
media player)
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April 2008 issue is in now
online.
Energy
Efficiency, Business Competitiveness, and Untapped Economic
Potential in Maine. (April
2008) Muskie School of Public Service, USM; Margaret
Chase Smith Policy Center, UMaine.
(download PDF,
577KB)
March 2008. Snapshots
of Maine's Arts & Cultural Sector. Results of a survey of artists, nonprofit organizations and businesses in Maine's creative economy conducted in the summer of 2007 with support from the Maine Arts Commission.
(download PDF,
436KB)
COPC Spring
2008 e-News is now online.
Poverty in Maine
Update, Volume 1, Issue 1. February 2008, This first issue
focuses on two basic areas of survival -- heat and food.
(Download
PDF 1.8MB)
RSAP
website. An information
clearinghouse for federal and Rural Substance Abuse Partnership (RSAP)
state resources around substance use & abuse in general.
This site focuses on substance abuse indicators for twenty rural
states nationally and Maine in particular. Substance use related
data includes: state demographics, use & abuse, youth,
treatment, trafficking & arrests, and injury & death. Downloadable
GIS maps available.
Biomass and Biofuels
in Maine: Estimating Supplies for Expanding the Forest Products
Industry (November 2007). Full
Report (pdf. 85KB) Contact info: Kate
Dickerson
Maine
Policy Review, Volume 16 Number 1 (Summer 2007) is
available online.
Potatoes to Plastic
(June 2007). Executive
Summary (.pdf 23KB);
Full Report (.pdf
68KB). Contact info: Kate
Dickerson
Fiscal
and Economic Effects of College Attainment.
(March 2007) School
of Economics Staff Paper #566 (pdf,
32 KB). C
ontact info: philip.trostel@maine.edu
The
Maine Economy: 2001-2004 - A Graphical Summary of Maine County and
State Economic Sector Dynamics. (April, 2007)
Bogdonoff,
S. & Rubin,
J. (2007). The
regional greenhouse gas initiative: taking action in Maine. Environment
49(2), 9-16.
Maine Policy Review
(Fall 2006) issue is now
available on line
RGGI Primer (February
2007) A
Primer for Maine: Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (pdf,
407 KB)
Climate Change in
Maine: Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (February 7, 2007) Slideshow
(pdf, 2.2 MB)
Evaluation of the
2003A Major Grants Program of the Maine Health Access Foundation (December,
2006). Full report (pdf,
357KB). Executive
Summary (pdf, 67 KB)
Poverty in Maine (October
2006) Poverty
in Maine 2006.
Katahdin Report
(August 2006) Former
Katahdin Area Residents Survey Report. (pdf
800 KB)
Creative Economy
(July 2006) Maine's Creative
Economy. Connecting Creativity, Commerce & Community
Creative Economy
Report (.pdf 14.5 MB)
Research Notes (.pdf, 63KB)
Maine State Parks
(June 2005) The
Economic Contributions of Maine State Parks: A Survey of Visitor
Characteristics, Perceptions and Spending (.pdf
793 KB)
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