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Maine Department of Agriculture 2009 Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award was presented to Professor Stewart N. Smith. In recognition of his outstanding leadership, clear vision for the future, tireless commitment of time and serving as a strong advocate for Maine’s Agricultural Community. In the presentation Commissioner Bradstreet noted both his current and past activities, including:
- USDA Agency Administrator in the 1970s
- Maine Commissioner of Agriculture in the 1980s
- Founding Member and Former Director of the Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society
- Member of the Farms for the Future Program Initial Review Panel
Wednesday’s Lewiston Sun Journal includes a report about the UMaine School of Economics Financial Education Initiative. The Economics Financial Education Initiative is being developed by two SOE graduate students, Hugh Stevens and Sharon Hageman. For more information on the Initiative call Hugh Stevens at (207) 581-3111 or Sharon Hageman at (207) 581-1853.
Link to Sun Journal Report on Financial Education Initiative
Link to Bangor Daily News article
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“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.”
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Other School News
UMaine Economics alumnus Jay Cromarty speaks to students on the process of moving from college to professions in economic and finance, including, what employers seek in new talent.
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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.
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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, 2007 in Washington, DC.
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The School of Economics is proud to announce that Kevin Price, of Winslow, Maine, a current junior double majoring in Economics and Political Science, has received the Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship for the academic year of 2009-2010.
The Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship was established in 1991 in the University of Maine Foundation with gifts from Harold Alfond to the Margaret Chase Smith Foundation in Skowhegan, Maine. The scholarship was established on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Senator Smith’s election to the U.S. House of Representatives and in recognition of her many years of dedicated public service to the citizens of Maine and to the nation from 1940 to 1973. Senator Smith’s abiding belief was that real progress will be attained only through the education of Maine’s young voters.
The scholarship program is administered by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center with the assistance of a university selection committee. Scholarship winners work with faculty advisors and/or staff of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center in the conduct of research. The student and Center staff then develop a dissemination plan to ensure that the results are communicated to relevant audiences.
Through the guidance of lecturer and research associate Caroline Noblet, Kevin will research ways to assist municipalities with regard to the decision-making process that surrounds siting, permitting and construction of wind-power projects. Kevin’s research will deal with the impacts of harnessing wind-energy within towns and municipalities, which has no relation to other current research on off-shore wind-energy. None the less, his research goes toward the direction that the UMaine community has continuously supported with great effort, as it hopes to promote further development of sustainable jobs for the State of Maine.
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