Programs to guide Mainers to self-sufficiency, a recent editorial in the Portland Press Herald, talks about the need to educate a Maine workforce to meet high-rate employer needs and the collaboration between Maine’s Department of Labor and Opportunity Maine. Cited in the article is Philip Trostel’s research on the correlation between number of degree-earners and […]
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The Portland Press Herald blog Maine Birding Field Notes recommends the latest issue of Maine Policy Review, co-sponsored by Open Space Institute, which talked about The North Woods. Link to blog
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July 25, 2008 – MaineNEW Leadership, a new initiative in the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, will bring up to 40 college-age women from Maine to campus beginning in 2009 for a weeklong intensive residential training program targeting the next generation of leaders. The program began in 1991 at the Center for American Women in […]
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July 23, 2008 – The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center releases a new report “Maine Bioproducts Business Pathway” authored by Research Associate Kate Dickerson and Professor Jonathan Rubin, School of Economics. This paper discusses the different processes that can be utilized in a Maine biorefinery to produce ethanol and acetic acid as initial products, with […]
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July 17, 2008 – The Video Spotlight portion of the University of Maine main website features five short videos of Jonathan Rubin speaking about public transportation, Maine energy challenges and opportunities, increasing fuel efficiency, and consumers changing behavior. While all videos rotate randomly on the website, you can view all Jonathan’s videos, as well as […]
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July 14, 2008 – The Bangor Daily News referenced the Poverty in Maine: 2006 report in a recent article on the Aroostook County Action Program forum on poverty.
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July 7, 2008 – In a recent article in the Bangor Daily News, Professor Rubin states that although it is clear that the crisis will be extremely difficult in the short term for low-income individuals, the elderly and those in rural areas who must commute long distances, over the long run the state can reap […]
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June 24, 2008 – They are not laughing anymore; Years ago we suggested Maine could find a new use for potatoes. Our concern at that time was a bad crop year and potato’s were hauled to the dump. We found a factory in Massachusetts that was using corn starch to make things like golf tees, […]
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Marcella Sorg, Director of the Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center was interviewed by Village Soup about drug overdose deaths due to prescription drugs. Read article: Tough pill to swallow: Most overdose deaths involve prescription drugs
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Jonathan Rubin has been selected to chair the Committee on Transportation Energy of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.
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