Comments from Scott Laflamme, a UMaine public administration student who serves on the Old Town city council, were included in a BDN story about the sudden resignation of Old Town’s city manager. Laflamme voted against accepting Peggy Daigle’s resignation during a meeting Thursday Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Comments from UMaine business professor John Mahon were included in an MPBN report about the news that Maine’s tax climate for new business investment was ranked No. 1 in the nation in a report from Ernst & Young done for the Council on State Taxation, a trade group representing multi-state corporations. Mahon said the report […]
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The Bangor Daily News had an obituary for Malcolm E. Jones, a UMaine graduate who eventually became president of Bangor Savings Bank.
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A UMaine business student has won an award for his work in the area of options, according to the Kennebec Journal. Paul Brown, a financial economics major from Mount Vernon, received the Chicago Board Options Exchange Award of Excellence in the Study of Options. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed Len Kaye, director of the UMaine Center on Aging Monday for a report on the 6th Annual University of Maine Geriatric Colloquium held in Northport. The focus of the event was substance abuse among elders in Maine. Contact: George Manlove (207) 581-3756
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NORTHPORT — The Sixth Annual University of Maine Geriatric Colloquium planned Monday, May 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport will explore “Substance Abuse in Older Adults: An Invisible Epidemic.”
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UMaine business major James Gilmore is the featured act in a concert, according to a story in Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper, that will serve as a fundraiser for a new library in South Berwick. “Sobopalooza for the Library” is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at Marshwood High School, of which Gilmore is […]
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University of Maine business and economics student Rachel Hathaway, who spent a summer internship in 2009 helping impoverished people in Bangladesh access small business loans, will return to the country to continue her work this summer and in 2012 as a Fulbright Scholar.
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An op-ed piece written by a UMaine graduate student was published in the Bangor Daily News. Elissa Rowe, who is also a social worker, advocated for support of LD 18, An Act to Extend the School Year in which the school year would go from 180 days to 185 days. Rowe writes that Maine is […]
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News reported that Nicole Goggin has been named Brewer’s economic development specialist. Goggin will graduate from UMaine on May 7 with an MBA. Chosen from a field of 43 applicants, she supplemented her UMaine course work with involvement in the Knowledge Transfer Alliance, an interdisciplinary effort that brings UMaine expertise to bear […]
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