On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, retired Vice Admiral Nora Tyson spoke at UMaine as this year’s Senator Margaret Chase Smith Lectureship on Public Affairs. Her inspirational speech was entitled Margaret Chase Smith and Me: The Importance of Leadership. Admiral Tyson spoke of parallel qualities in her career and that of Margaret Chase Smith and the importance of leadership, […]
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The Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship for 2018-19 has been awarded to Alyson East, an Environmental Science major from Calais, Maine. East is working on the Schoodic Ecosystem Services Project to quantify the changes in the Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park with its recent land acquisition and recreational development. UMaine researchers, in collaboration with the Schoodic […]
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MPR Executive Editor Linda Silka has an op-ed in today’s @bangordailynews on Maine leadership in changing times: http://researchshows.bangordailynews.com/2018/09/11/home/maine-leadership-in-changing-times/ Access the full issue of MPR on our Digital Commons site: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/
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The Senator Margaret Chase Smith Lectureship on Public Affairs Presented by Retired Vice Admiral Nora Tyson Margaret Chase Smith and Me: The Importance of Leadership 3:30 p.m., Oct. 2, Hauck Auditorium, University of Maine All guests are asked to preregister for the event at: brownpapertickets.com/event/3603314 Event is free and open to the public Nora Tyson […]
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Maine Governor Paul LePage recently congratulated the Maine government summer interns and their supervisors in a reception at the Blaine House. This year the Policy Center placed 56 interns in Maine state and municipal governments for 12-week internships. Forty-two students were in state agencies located in Augusta and Portland while 14 worked in municipalities statewide, […]
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It is with great pleasure that we bring you this special Maine Policy Review issue on leadership. Over a year in the making, this issue captures the broad array of work on leadership in Maine, exciting work that continues to build Maine’s national visibility in the leadership arena. It is no coincidence that we are […]
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The May-June edition of TR News, a journal of the national Transportation Research Board includes a profile of Policy Center director and School of Economics professor Jonathan Rubin. The bimonthly magazine features articles on state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation and includes profiles of transportation professionals. Trained as an economist, Rubin was […]
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The Maine Government Summer Internship Program is underway with a total of 56 interns placed in Maine state and municipal governments. Of these, 42 students are placed in state jobs in Augusta and Portland, and 14 are in municipalities ranging from Portland to Saco to Rumford. The jobs range from engineering to communications to planning […]
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Dr. Marcella Sorg’s research on drug deaths is in the news, revealing the increasing role of fentanyl. The figures on drug deaths recently released by the Attorney General and the Chief Medical Examiner were compiled by Dr. Marcella Sorg of the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The first quarter figures show that […]
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One of the Policy Center’s public affairs scholars, Katelyn Manzo, of Etna, Maine, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Manzo, who majored in computer science, is both a Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholar and a UMaine Presidential Scholar. Since 2016, Manzo has been a Maine Learning […]
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