Maine Startups Insider reported on the finalists for the UMaine Business Challenge, the state’s largest student entrepreneurship competition. The college entrepreneurs will be paired with mentors and have seven weeks to build a business plan before presenting it before a panel of judges on April 29 at UMaine, according to the article. Up for grabs […]
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As president of the University of Maine Class of 2017, Maine Business School senior Devin Greenlaw is helping his classmates leave their mark on their soon-to-be alma mater. The class is raising $10,000 to endow a scholarship fund in the University of Maine Foundation to benefit the descendents of Class of 2017. “Our children and […]
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Abstract submissions for the 2017 University of Maine Student Symposium on April 24 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 8 a.m.–6 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the […]
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MeiWa Li has her sights set on a career in health care services. The University of Maine junior from Hong Kong is an accounting major who interned at athenahealth last summer in Belfast. The fast-growing company, which provides cloud-based services for managing electronic medical records, medical billing, patient engagement and care coordination, assigned Li to […]
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Student members of the MBS Corps, the Maine Business School’s community outreach organization, visited the studio of WVII (Channel 7) to promote the group’s upcoming fundraiser, “Nets 4 Pets 4 Vets.” Noelle Hanna and Michael Fagan spoke about the basketball tournament and dinner that will be held March 24 to raise money for the Bangor […]
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Brady Davis, a University of Maine senior in the Maine Business School and Honors College, was awarded a Mitchell Scholarship upon graduating from Freeport High School in 2013. At UMaine, Davis became involved with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions by way of the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative project, […]
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Nory Jones, a professor of management information systems at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Changing time zone would further isolate Maine from the rest of the United States.” Several lawmakers are advocating that Maine should join the Atlantic time zone, which would require a positive vote on a […]
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When Alex Rahman decided to come to the United States to attend college, he had two goals. He wanted a university that believed in him enough to help him graduate debt free, and one that offered a challenging business curriculum and a diverse set of activities and work experiences outside the classroom, all preparing him […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,298 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,714 are from Maine, 523 are from 31 other states and 61 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Nory Jones and Harold Daniel, professors with the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report about getting a new potato variety on store shelves. The Caribou Russet, which was developed by the Maine Potato Board and UMaine, was unveiled more than a year ago, but has yet […]
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