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The School of Economics wishes to provide the public and UMaine community with up-to-date information concerning the involvement of its faculty members, as well as its undergraduate and graduate students. Consideration of research areas, academic achievement, and awards–as well as the continued development of SOE is the intention of this page. If you have any questions or concerns about news or events, or if you have information you wish to be added to this page, please contact Karen Casey or Tammy Crosby.
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2009-2010 Lavery Scholars
Jack Lavery was in town to teach ECO 590: Assessing the National Economy, a course for Spring 2010, and met with the 2009-2010 Lavery Scholars. Lavery, who earned a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maine in 1970 before embarking on a successful career as a leading economist, has provided $300,000 over 10 years to establish a scholarship fund for students in UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health. Jack created the Jack W. Lavery Scholarship Fund for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students majoring in economics at UMaine. Students are encouraged to contact Tammy Crosby for any inquiries on Lavery’s course offerings, as he is now serving as Senior Executive Fellow in Financial Economics for the University of Maine.
Picture (Left to Right): Sarah Pacheco, Siqi (Susan) Geng, Dung Tran, Jack Lavery, Travis Blackmer, Andrew B Hopkins, Anders Beal, Quinn Bardon, Matt Ciampa, Dustin Jalbert, Derek Hardy
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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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