The University of Maine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced winners of this year’s second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase held last week. Nine awards were made after consideration of more than 50 research projects presented as end-of-the year capstone exhibits or displays. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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The Bangor Daily News has a brief about a marketing research project being performed by UMaine MBA students. The students are conducting a survey regarding the potential target market and market opportunities for Moosehead Furniture Co. Click here to take the survey online. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Contact Joe Carr at 207-581-3571 Saturday’s Bangor Daily News business section included a column by Prof. Harold Daniel of the UMaine business faculty. In the column, Daniel provides analysis on the relationship between technology and Maine’s tourism industry. He notes that northern and eastern Maine destinations would benefit from improved technology infrastructure and coordinated online […]
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Contact: Peter Fandel, (207) 581-1835 or Jim Settele, (207) 581-3153 ORONO — The University of Maine School of International Affairs has invited the chief of staff for the U.S. Navy’s Energy and Environmental Readiness Division to present and discuss steps the Navy is taking to utilize more efficient alternative energy sources for newly designed equipment.
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Contact: Nancy Hall, (207) 581-2404 University of Maine undergraduate students will present more than 50 research projects all day on Wednesday, April 13 at the Wells Conference Center for the second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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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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