News & Events

May 14, 2008: Coverage of the MCSPC co-sponsored conference "Why the Future Matters Now" held on May 13, 2008 .  (Bangor Daily News).

May 12, 2008: Jonathan Rubin has been selected to chair the Committee on Transportation Energy of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. (read more) 

May 12, 2008: As part of a HUD COPC grant, Laura Lindenfeld's Advertising Campaigns class created professional commercials and advertisements for six Bangor businesses (Bangor Daily News).

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)

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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" 
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Recent Publications & Reports

COPC e-News  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.