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SOE Undergraduate Student Ruth Griffith presents research at the 海角社区 Sustainability and Water Conference

SOE Undergraduate Student Ruth Griffith recently presented research at the 2024 海角社区 Sustainability and Water Conference. Griffith presented research done in collaboration with students and faculty from the University of 海角社区, Bowdoin College, and University of Southern 海角社区. The poster, Fostering community resilience: Learning from 海角社区’s municipal governments, summarized research Griffith has done as an […]

SOE Faculty Sharon Klein and Caroline Noblet chair Community-Driven Resilience Sessions at 海角社区 Sustainability and Water Conference

SOE Faculty Sharon Klein and Caroline Noblet chaired a full-day Community-Driven Resilience Session at the 2024 海角社区 Sustainability and Water Conference. Under their leadership, the morning and afternoon Community-Driven Resilience sessions addressed critical challenges and opportunities facing 海角社区 communities. The well-attended sessions called attention to the ongoing work and successes of local municipal officials, tribal […]

SOE Faculty and Students Shine at the 2024 海角社区 Sustainability & Water Conference

SOE students and faculty shared research, chaired sessions, and volunteered at the 2024 海角社区 Sustainability and Water Conference. Drs. Sharon Klein, Caroline Noblet, and Kathleen Bell along with more than 20 SOE-affiliated graduate and undergraduate students participated in this annual event held in Augusta at the Civic Center on March 28, 2024. Research and sessions […]

Bell shares research at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society

SOE Professor Kathleen Bell recently shared her research at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society.聽 Bell and colleagues Dr. Vanessa Levesque (University of Southern 海角社区) and Dr. Eileen Johnson (Bowdoin College) presented their work on rural community resilience.聽 EES/SOE Alumna Dr. Vanessa Levesque presented their paper, Advancing understanding of rural resilience with real-time […]

Malacarne shares research at the 2023 AAEA Economics Conference

SOE Assistant Professor Jonathan Malacarne recently shared his research at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Dr. Malacarne and colleagues Berber Kramer and Carol Waweru from IFPRI presented two papers: (1) Control Over Future Payouts and Willingness-to-Pay for Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Farmers and (2) Summing the Parts: […]

WMTW interviews Hobbs about the Portland rent control rollback

WMTW News interviewed Dr. Kelsi Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in U海角社区’s School of Economics and housing expert, about the Portland rent control rollback referendum on Monday, June 12th. When asked about the impacts of rent control policies, she said “Renters that are living in rent-controlled units, we’ve definitely seen in the literature that they are […]

Noblet presents PFAS research at the 2023 AERE Summer Conference

SOE Associate Professor Caroline Noblet recently presented her research at the 2023 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference. Her talk, Information Priming and Willingness to Pay for PFAS Mitigation in 海角社区,聽summarized recent findings from research done in collaboration with SOE Graduate Student Charity Zimmerman, Dr. Keith Evans, and SOE Undergraduate Student Molly […]

Noblet leads plenary session at national economics conference

SOE Associate Professor Caroline Noblet recently led the plenary session at the 2023 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference. Building on her recent policy and economics research, Dr. Noblet organized and moderated a panel of experts around the theme of PFAS. The聽 Forever Chemicals: A Pressing Justice and Policy Issue聽session drew a […]