How to Start a Business 101 will be held at noon, Sept. 14, in the Bumps Room of the Memorial Union. It is the first in a series of free workshops for veterans who are entrepreneurs or thinking of starting their own businesses. The workshop will be led by Jim Pineau, a veteran who is […]
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The University of Maine is welcoming its largest incoming class — 2,300 students — with Maine Hello on Aug. 26, in preparation for the start of classes for the fall semester on Monday. Arriving on campus, members of the Class of 2020 and their families are being greeted by hundreds of UMaine community volunteers who […]
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Nory Jones, a professor of management information systems at the University of Maine, and Jerry Ireland of the United Farmer Veterans of America — Maine, visited WABI (Channel 5) to speak about the MBS Veteran Entrepreneur Project (VEP), an online resource for veterans in the state. The purpose of the website and research project is […]
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This fall, bachelor of arts students in any College of Liberal Arts and Sciences major will be eligible to enroll in a five-year MBA program in the Maine Business School. Previously, some departments in the college had MBA agreements. Now, UMaine offers a dual-degree program with the Maine Business School and two colleges — Liberal […]
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University of Maine graduate student Jesse Orach was highlighted in the Portland Press Herald after he won the Maine men’s division in his first-ever Beach to Beacon race in Cape Elizabeth. Orach, who missed the sign-up for the race and got to take part after one of his friend’s mothers couldn’t participate and he paid […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Dave Barrett, a lecturer in accounting in the Maine Business School, recently promoted his first novel at Comic-Con in San Diego. Barrett’s book, “It’s All Fun and Games,” goes on sale Aug. 2. The young adult fantasy tells the story of a group of high school friends who find themselves […]
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Neil Spillane, co-founder and CEO of Portland-based Fork Food Lab, was a recent guest on “The Grow Maine Show.” Fork Food Lab is a food entrepreneur’s incubator space that will be open 24/7 and feature a tasting room. The goal is to host more than 40 companies to operate in the space, which features a […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,267 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,721 are from Maine, 483 are from 32 other states and 63 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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The Portland Press Herald included a video of Portland Head Light filmed with a drone in an online post about Fort Williams Park and the lighthouse. The video was created by University of Maine student Casey Nava, a marketing and management major from Waterboro, Maine. Nava is the CEO of Navadise Media, a cinematography company […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a newly opened business by Alison Keane, a recent MBA graduate from the University of Maine. Keane, an Eddington resident who grew up in Brewer, is now the president and founder of the Logical Sip Cafe & Bakery in Brewer, according to the article. Keane began writing her business […]
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