Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Wisconsin’s Ashland Current newspaper carried a story about a new pharmaceuticals mail-back program in that state, designed to keep prescription and other drugs out of the environment or wrong hands. Modeled after the University of Maine Center on Aging’s “Safe Medicine Disposal for ME” program, Wisconsin’s “Get the Meds Out” […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922 The University of Maine Center on Aging and collaborating partners have rescheduled the Substance Abuse and Aging Colloquium, postponed from April 1 because of heavy snow, to Monday, May 2 at Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport. An earlier UMaine news release listed conference details.
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Channel 5 (WABI) recently featured UMaine business and accounting students helping area residents with 2010 tax returns. Maine Business School accounting professor Steve Colburn, who oversees the annual service, and an accounting student, Joe Rosenwasser, were interviewed for the story.
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UMaine News advisory – March 31, 2011 Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922 Because of the severity of winter weather conditions expected Friday, April 1, the University of Maine Center on Aging and collaborating partners are postponing the Substance Abuse and Aging Colloquium scheduled April 1 at Point Lookout in Northport. “We are working to reschedule […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Dean Ivan Manev of UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health. In the column, “Making I-95 a Maine innovation highway,” Manev explains some of the factors that make economic development clusters successful and offers suggestions about ways in which Maine can deal with related geographic […]
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Comments from UMaine’s John Mahon were included in a USA Today story which analyzed 2010 Census numbers for the state of Maine. Mahon, a business expert, said the north-south population split revealed in the numbers reflects real regional tensions in that southern Maine residents resent money that goes to northern areas for social services, but […]
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Comments from UMaine business Professor John Mahon were included in a Bangor Daily News story about the ongoing economic effects of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan earlier this month. Mahon said food prices have started to rise on speculation, and the cost of borrowing may also rise as the Japanese are forced to […]
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Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor of social work, appeared as a guest on Senior Spotlight on Channel 5 (WABI) and on a Channel 7 (WVII) newscast recently to talk about an upcoming conference, “Substance Abuse in Older Adults: An Invisible Epidemic: The 6th Annual University of Maine […]
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UMaine business professor John Mahon of the Maine Business School was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) news report this week on the potential economic effects of the crises in Japan. Mahon says the automotive industry, international debt and oil markets, in addition to reconstruction supplies markets, likely will be affected. The Portsmouth Herald also […]
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Contact: John Mahon, (207) 581-1976 University of Maine business professor John Mahon is available to discuss how events in Japan may affect global, US and even local economies and markets, including tourism. Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in the Maine Business School, expects fallout could be far-reaching. Among […]
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