Policy Center director Jonathan Rubin gave a research presentation at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 96th Annual Meeting, held January 8–12, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The introduction of automated vehicles requires new approaches to transportation policy and Rubin’s research examines the efficient taxation policies for automated vehicles. Leiby, Paul and Jonathan Rubin, “Efficient Fuel and VMT […]
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Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and professor of economics, and chair of the Environment and Energy Section, U.S. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, will be one of the experts presenting on transportation at the Washington, D.C. conference, U.S. Energy Policy in the 2016 Elections and Beyond: Incremental or […]
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How has public conversation about climate change evolved over time? What cultural and historical factors have shaped its trajectory? How do scientists, artists, and humanities scholars influence the way we understand and talk about climate change? Join the Maine Humanities Council, the Portland Museum of Art, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and the Margaret […]
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In part two of a radio series on the issue, MPBN Morning Edition host Irwing Gratz talks with Anna Sims Bartel about the role of the humanities in public policy. Bartel is associate director of Cornell University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Research and an author in the humanities issue of Maine Policy Review. See the article at MPBN: http://news.mpbn.net/post/humanities-how-they-can-help-shape-public-policy […]
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The issue of term limits for Maine legislators has again been raised by the recent proposal of LD182. A Bangor Daily News article reflecting the current public policy debate on term limits makes reference to a 2003 article from the Maine Policy Review in which authors Moen and Palmer discuss the term limits which have been in effect in Maine now for 22 […]
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Sylvia Most, one of the authors from the most recent issue of the Maine Policy Review (MPR), was interviewed by Irwin Gratz on MPBN’s Morning Edition. In response to a previous article suggesting that Maine college graduates lack science and technical skills, Most suggests that those skills could result from providing better technical education in high school. The interview aired […]
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Applications are now being accepted for the Maine Policy Scholars program. It is open to juniors and seniors from all majors and provides substantial financial and research support to a student undertaking applied research on a Maine policy issue. Policy Scholars are students who become involved in the front lines of public policy in Maine. […]
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Dr. Marcella Sorg of the University of Maine and Dr. Margaret Greenwald, recently retired Chief Medical Examiner, will lead Maine’s effort in a newly announced project to analyze violent deaths. The State of Maine has received funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather critical data on violent deaths in Maine […]
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Hollie Smith, who has been working with Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center associate professor Laura Lindenfeld, was the graduate winner for the 10th annual Maine Studies Research and Creativity Awards. Her research paper, “Science and Policy in Maine: Opportunities for Engagement with the Maine State Legislature,” examines ways graduate students at UMaine might contribute more […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a Maine Policy Review article by Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Board of Advisor Trish Riley that provides a summary of what Dirigo Health accomplished during its ten years of existence, as well as identifying what didn’t work. Also included are four specific lessons that can be taken from the […]
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