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The tax and budget fight is more important than ever in a stagnant economy. The UMaine economics community should speak up. Read our blog...
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UMaine School of Economics waste research in the news
A traditional elasticity of household waste disposal for many communities is not possible to estimate, as for most municipalities, ...
A recently updated 2011 study by the University of Maine School of Economics that sorted and assessed the contents of trash in a representative sample of 17 Maine communities concludes that as much as 60 percent of what’s...
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School of Economics Professor Gary Hunt co-writes op-ed on economies of wind power
UMaine economist Gary Hunt contributed to an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald on the economies of commercial wind development. ...
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Megan Wibberly wins College's Outstanding Master's Student Award
Megan Wibberly, a Resource Economics and Policy student, won the college-wide award for her outstanding research, teaching and public ...
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Rachel Binder-Hathaway of Millinocket has been named the valedictorian of the University of Maine Class of 2012. Kayla Peard of York is the salutatorian. Both will be honored during UMaine’s 210th Commencement slated for May 5...
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Financial Economicis student volunteers to help elephants and other animals in Thailand.
Lincoln, Maine, native Joshuah Farrington, a UMaine master’s student in financial economics, spent winter break 2011 volunteering at the ...
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Economics faculty provide College degree economic impact information for UMaine Foundation.
Economic Impacts Associated with having at Least a Four-Year College Degree
President/CEO Search umainefoundation.org
The University of Maine celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1965, and few students had college loans and debts. Today, that debt averages nearly $23,000 for graduating seniors. They are beginning the careers they worked so hard...
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Financial Economics student, Matt Ciampa, helps establish entrepreneurship competition.
Mr. Matt Ciampa earned a BA in Financial Economics in 2010 and is now pursuing his MA in Financial Economics (both UMaine School of ...
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UMaine School of Economics (SOE) facebook.com
UMaine School of Economics (SOE) Mr. Peter Van Buren has served with the Foreign Service for over 23 years. He received a Meritorious Honor Award for assistance to Americans following the Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, a Superior...
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Economic development efforts paying off
Efforts by the School of Economics Knowledge Transfer Alliance (KTA) to help a Brewer manufacturer that retrofits shipping containers ...
Brewer company transforming shipping containers into buildings bangordailynews.com
BREWER, Maine — The modular bunk house building that left the old Lemforder plant on Friday was made from two shipping containers that had been retrofitted with eight beds, two bathrooms and a kitchen. “It doesn’t look like a...
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Grad student Shyamani Siriwardena's thesis work on measuing the market and environmental effects of green marketing gets published!
Shyamani Siriwardena, Gary Hunt, Mario Teisl, and Caroline Noblet. In press. Effectiveness of eco-marketing on green car purchase ...
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Mario and Caroline's work on food safety gets published.
Sara B. Fein, Amy M. Lando, Alan S. Levy, Mario F. Teisl and Caroline Noblet. 2011. Trends in US consumers’ safe handling and ...
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Macroeconomist Dr. Kearney comments on European financial crises
Associate Professor Adrienne Kearney, a UMaine School of Economics macroeconomist who studies international finance, was quoted in a ...
Will the financial crisis in Europe affect Maine businesses? bangordailynews.com
There’s not much Jaspar Wyman & Son can do as one of its geographic markets — Europe — goes through economic gyrations. “Doing anything about the crisis in Europe is above my pay grade, but I stay up on it,” said President and...
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UMaine President meets with Economics seniors!
The University of Maine President, Paul Ferguson, met with the School of Economics Senior Seminar class yesterday (11/30/11) to discuss ...
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School of Economics Graduate Student helps with student business fund competition
Matt Ciampa of York, Maine, earned a bachelor’s in financial economics from the School of Economics and is now pursuing a master’s ...
UMaine Alums Organize Business Competition for Student...
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School of Economics students analyzing waste to help State plan for upcoming challenges in regional waste management.
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University of Maine students sort trash for science sunjournal.com
LISBON — Most people think of the contents of a trash bag as one thing: trash. But University of Maine economics major Travis Blackmer knows many categories and sub-categories can be found in each bag. "You have paper and...
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School of Economics faculty make large contributions to today's EPSCoR conference. School graduate students praised for quality...
School of Economics faculty Kathleen P. Bell, Caroline Noblet, Linda Silka, Mario Teisl, Sharon J. Wagner have large role in in today’s ...
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Signing Ceremony for Jatropha Project
We gathered at the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water for a formal signing ceremony for our project: "Information-based optimization ...
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Congratulations to our new School of Economics Faculty member, Jeffrey Thaler, Esq. who was selected by his peers for inclusion in the...
Jeffrey Thaler, Esq. will be working with the School's and University's renewable energy teaching and research programs. He was ...
