Applications are now being accepted for the 2018–2019 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship. The $3,500 scholarship is open to undergraduate students of all majors who are conducting independent research on a topic related to public policy. To be eligible for the scholarship, students must be a Maine resident currently enrolled at UMaine and taking […]
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The UMaine Business Challenge presented by Business Lending Solutions, Maine’s largest college business plan competition, has announced this year’s finalists. The seven-year-old competition is open to student entrepreneurs from Maine colleges or universities with businesses headquartered, or soon to be headquartered, in the state. Vying for more than $20,000 in cash and prizes, the students […]
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Twenty-one University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “UMaine’s world-class faculty are at the heart of […]
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Abstract submissions for the 2018 University of Maine Student Symposium on April 17 are now being accepted. The UMaine Student Symposium, a campuswide celebration of achievement in student research and creative activity, will be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the […]
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Exploring national parks as a teen during a family cross-country trip made a lasting impression on Kayla Greenawalt. “It made me want to be around that environment and protect the environment,” says the University of Maine ecology and environmental sciences major. Greenawalt, who returned from a research trip to the Falkland Islands with Ph.D. student […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Stephanie Welcomer, a professor of management at the University of Maine, for an article about the retirement of York Hill Farm’s cheesemakers. John and Penny Duncan, makers of award-winning goat cheese, quietly retired in October after four decades in the business, according to the article. Welcomer, whose work focuses on […]
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Dmitri Markovitch, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Maine, spoke with the Morning Sentinel for the article, “Jackman moving on after outrage over town manager’s racism.” Despite scrutiny from news media outlets and internet users following the publication of the former town manager’s racist beliefs, business owners are saying the attention has […]
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Editor’s note: story updated Feb. 6, 2018. The University of Maine recognized 2,229 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2017 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,609 are from Maine, 559 are from 32 other states and 61 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are […]
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U.S. News & World Report has named the University of Maine Business School one of the nation’s best online master’s degree programs in business administration. UMaine is tied for 131st on the annual list which evaluates schools on their distance education MBA programs. The online program earned a score of 47 according to a set […]
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Hometown: Oxford, Maine I’m fascinated by the increasing complexity of the stock market and the power concentrated in the hands of corporate owners. I’m a senior studying financial economics; my Honors thesis is on the difference in performance between passively and actively owned companies. I love being co-president of UMaine’s student-run investment club (SPIFFY) and […]
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