A six-member team from the Maine Business School earned a performance award — the first for the University of Maine — at the 50th annual International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in Anaheim, California. In the rigorous, semester-long business simulation, which consisted of a remote phase and a final on-site phase, students ran a virtual company […]
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J. Michael Weber, a senior associate dean and professor of marketing at Mercer University, has been named dean of the new Graduate School of Business, effective July 1, 2018. The Graduate School of Business, part of the Maine Business School, will offer the MBA program in Orono and Portland and online, and will house all […]
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More than 1,650 students, including 34 doctoral degree candidates, are expected to participate in the University of Maine’s 216th Commencement on May 12 in Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. UMaine Commencement will be held in two ceremonies, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies are ticketed events and live streaming will be […]
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University of Maine community members will take part in a day of service on Maine Day, May 2. As part of the annual spring cleanup tradition, UMaine students, faculty and staff will complete volunteer projects aimed at sprucing up campus, enjoy a free barbecue and take part in a meal-packing event. Festivities will begin at […]
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Ten undergraduates have been named 2018 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Among them is Brianna DeGone, the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering, and the 2018 salutatorian. The Outstanding Graduating Students will receive their degrees at UMaine’s 216th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 12. The other Outstanding Graduating […]
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More than 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students presented their work during the third annual University of Maine Student Symposium held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on April 17. The free public event, which was organized by UMaine Graduate Student Government and the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) as part of Maine Impact Week, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) covered the April 14 basketball fundraiser event “Nets 4 Pets 4 Vets” held in Bangor. Organized by members of the University of Maine Business School’s MBS Corps and ROTC, the event involves a tournament and community dinner designed to raise money to provide service dogs for veterans. The tournament, officiated by the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Maine Business School professors Nory Jones, professor of management information systems, and John Mahon, professor of management, about their new book on veterans, titled “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation.” The co-authors discussed the stories from veterans that informed the book, encompassing leadership, knowledge and skills the veterans learned from combat and later […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2018 CUGR Summer Fellowship winners. The center’s advisory committee selected 17 proposals from 45 student submissions to be awarded $3,000 each during the summer semester. Each proposal was reviewed by three judges and discussed at a panel for clarity of the proposed project, […]
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The second annual Nets 4 Pets 4 Vets, a benefit basketball tournament and community dinner to raise money for therapy animals for veterans with PTSD or traumatic brain injury, will be held 3–7 p.m. April 14 at 45 Columbia St., Bangor. The event is sponsored by Maine Business School Corps, UMaine ROTC and the UMaine […]
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