Events surrounding Thursday’s William S. Cohen Lecture, which included a talk by Gen. James Jones and roundtable with Cohen, were covered by several local media outlets. Jones was President Barack Obama’s first National Security Advisor and Cohen, a Bangor native, is the former congressman, senator, and secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton. The Bangor […]
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John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in the Maine Business School, is scheduled for a Thursday presentation at the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs’ Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners dinner in Sydney, Australia. Mahon, a scholar and consultant with an international profile in the area of corporate […]
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This week’s UMaine Business Job Fair was featured in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report about why the unemployment rate in the State of Maine is lower than the national average. Therese Hursh, a UMaine accounting student who is in school to earn her undergraduate degree after more than 20 years in the workforce, […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) on Monday covered the Maine Business School’s Job and Internship Fair, attended by UMaine students and more than 30 companies interested in meeting potential employees or interns. Nory Jones, director of graduate business programs, was among those interviewed. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Stephanie Welcomer, interim associate dean of UMaine’s business school, wrote a Saturday Bangor Daily News column about growth opportunities — and the associated challenges — in Maine’s agricultural economy. Welcomer was one of four UMaine professors who participated in an extensive survey of Maine farmers about “threats, opportunities and their needs for the future.” The […]
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The University of Maine Foster Center for Student Innovation is holding two events designed to bring out the creativity of UMaine students and help them hone presentation skills.
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Niclas Erhardt, a human resources specialist on the UMaine Business School faculty, commented in a Sept. 18 Lewiston Sun Journal story about the challenges facing job applicants who have criminal records, even in the distant past.
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UMaine graduate student Matt Ciampa was interviewed Thursday for a Channel 7 (WVII) report on the Maine Business Challenge, which he and two other 2010 UMaine graduates have initiated to give a budding young entrepreneur from UMaine a boost in developing a business. The three have contributed $5,000 as a cash award and are arranging […]
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Martha Broderick, a UMaine senior lecturer of business and commercial law, received last week the Lew Vafiades Pro Bono Award for her work at the Penobscot County Bar Association Legal Aid Clinic, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Broderick, a lawyer who lives in Lincoln and was mentored by Vafiades when he was alive, […]
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The Central Maine Morning Sentinel has a report about a play by three UMaine alumni to fund the first Maine Business Challenge, a competition that awards cash prizes to entrepreneurs who develop winning business plans. The graduates are working in partnership with UMaine’s Maine Business School and the Foster Center for Student Innovation. Winners receive […]
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