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Downtown America: A
History of the Place and the People Who Made It - September 2005
The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the University of Maine
Department of History jointly sponsored a recent visit to the University
of Maine by Alison Isenberg, associate professor of history at Rutgers
University and a former urban planner in New York City. Isenberg
presented a public lecture at Buchanan Alumni House on her new book,
Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It.
For this book, Isenberg received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best
historical study of the political economy of the modern United States
from the Organization of American Historians and the 2005 Historic
Preservation Book Prize from the University of Mary Washington's Center
for Historic Preservation. During her visit, Professor Isenberg
met with UMaine Department of History faculty and graduate students and
with Dean Ann Leffler and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Creative Economy
Task Force. In addition, Professor Isenberg met with Bangor
community leaders and made a second public presentation, "Beyond
Nostalgia: A New History of Main Street Preservation and Urban
Commercial Life," at the Bangor Museum and Center for History in
Bangor.
September 23, 2004
The Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Lectureship on Public Affairs:
Civil Liberties After
9/11: Lessons from Past Assaults on Freedom
The
Margaret Chase Smith Center Policy Matters Forum:
Balancing Security at
Home and Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
State of Maine Homeland Security Conference -
May 14, 2004
The 2004 State of Maine Homeland Security Conference will
bring together leaders in homeland security policy with small
businesses, suppliers and service providers to explore potential
partnerships that will benefit Maine businesses and its citizens. The
event is being presented by Governor John E. Baldacci and Senator Susan
M. Collins and produced by the University of Maine and the Maine Small
Business Development Centers.
Conference:
The Current State of Maine's Pulp and Paper Industry: Challenges,
Strengths and Opportunities
The Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy was proud to
co-sponsor, along with the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and
Agriculture at the University of Maine, the The Current State of Maine's
Pulp and Paper Industry: Challenges, Strengths and Opportunities.
Several presentations offered at this forum were given by some of North
America's top market analysts who will outline the competitive forces
shaping the industry. Other speakers offered insight and analyses of the
impacts of mill closures that can be used in forming effective policies
to help Maine's pulp and paper industry compete in global markets.
Public Policy Research Funds Program
The Public Policy Research Funds Program is
designed to encourage University of Maine faculty to engage in
research projects that involve significant issues of public policy
for the state.
Code of Elections Ethics
The Maine Code of Election Ethics encourages substantive
issues-oriented electoral campaigns in Maine that will educate the
Maine voter and help to improve the quality of dialogue about public
policy. The Code calls for an end to negative campaign tactics
and, by signing the Code, each candidate agrees to be responsible
for all campaign practices by of or behalf of his/her campaign.
Margaret Chase Smith Lectureship Series
The Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy brings to
the University of Maine campus each year a person of national
stature to speak on topics in public affairs, in honor of Maine
Senator Margaret Chase Smith.
The
Future of Jobs in Maine's Forest Products and Paper Industry
was a one-day conference dedicated to the changes and struggles that
the forest industry faced in 1999 while maintaining its place in the
Maine (and global) economy.
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