News and Seminars
SOE Research in the News
"Debt Free College" Bangor Daily News Monday April 14, 2008
"Based on lots of research, Mr. Brown and Philip Trostel, an economics professor at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, believe they have solved the chicken and egg dilemma when it comes to education and economic development. States with a higher percentage of college grads have jobs that pay higher salaries. And there is clear evidence, they say, that college-educated workers come first."
2008 Spring Seminar Series
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held in 201 Winslow Hall from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
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Topic |
25-Jan |
Mark Anderson
School of Economics
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Assessment to improve teaching and learning |
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1-Feb |
Dan Holland
Gulf of Maine Research Institute |
Are fishermen rational? A fishing expedition |
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8-Feb |
Richard Hill
Mechanical Engineering |
The energy marketplace - a bizarre bazaar |
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15-Feb |
Jim Wilson and Liying Yan, School of Marine Sciences |
Modeling competition and cooperation in a complex environment |
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22-Feb |
Patricia Lech*
School of Economics |
Insurance and obesity, the college freshman viewpoint |
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21-Mar |
Sarah Larochelle / Robb Freeman*
School of Economics |
Effects of microbusinesses on U.S. regional economic growth / Modeling the impacts of land-use change on vernal pool-breeding amphibians |
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28-Mar |
Jonathan Harris
Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University |
Macroeconomics and climate change: the twenty-first century challenge |
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4-Apr |
Ian Lange
US EPA |
Impact of coal contract characteristics on prices |
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11-Apr |
Wayne Gray
Clark University |
Regulatory regime changes under federalism: do states matter more? |
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18-Apr |
Tim Olesniewicz / Ellie Bacani*
School of Economics |
Unanticipated consequences of the regional greenhouse gas initiative / Who cares when green vehicles turn greener |
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25-Apr |
Megan Tylka / Sean Yoder*
School of Economics |
Residential development and water quality / Trade and wages |
*Graduate student presentations
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Other School News
Graduate Student, Sarah Larochelle, was awarded 2nd place in the Social Sciences and Humanities Division of the 2008 Graduate Student Research Expo for her poster on the Effects of Micro-businesses on U.S. Regional Economic Growth.
Special congratulations to Robb Freeman (Ph.D. Program, Ecology and Environmental Sciences) - Robb's paper "A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Modeling the Impacts of Land-Use Change on Vernal Pool-Breeding
Amphibians" was selected as the oustanding student paper at the Transatlantic Land Use Conference held September 24-26, 2007in Washington, DC.
