UMaine News

UMaine was one of four college campuses around the state to host the fifth annual Junior Achievement of Maine’s Titan Challenge business simulation, according to a Lewiston Sun Journal article. Nearly 75 Maine high school students participated in the event, which is aimed at increasing students’ understanding of the business world.

UMaine College of Business, Public Policy and Health Dean Ivan Manev wrote a column, “Prosperity starts with business,” in Saturday’s Bangor Daily News.  It was the first installment in the newspaper’s “The Deans of Business” feature, a series of columns to be written by Manev and the business deans at Husson University and the University […]

A Waterville Morning Sentinel op-ed column about the possible repeal of Maine’s Kid-Safe Products Act mentioned a study by UMaine economist Mary Davis. According to the column, written by a Colby College student, Davis calculated the legislation could save the state an average of $1,350 per child every year in reduced health care and economic […]

John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of Business Policy and Strategy and professor of management in the Maine Business School, was interviewed for two recent articles published by America.gov — “Corporate Reputation Matters” and “Companies Bank on Trust.”  Mahon, an authority on corporate responsibility, credibility and reputation, says businesses too often neglect to continuously […]

Information from a UMaine study about the costs associated with winter snow removal was included in a Bangor Daily News story about how communities are dealing with snow removal this year. The study, which was done by Jonathan Rubin, professor of resource economics with UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, found […]

Channel 5 (WABI) on Feb. 3 aired a story about UMaine accounting students offering free tax-return assistance on Fridays at the Orono Public Library.

Sophie Wilson, the town manager of Brownville, will be offered the position of town manager of Orono, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Wilson has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UMaine, according to the story.

The Bangor Daily News has a story about UMaine social work graduate student Kristina Minott and a study she is conducting about addiction recovery and the qualities of personal resiliency. Minott is seeking individuals in various stages of recovery for an anonymous survey designed to measure their resiliency. 

A study co-authored by UMaine social work Professor Sandra Butler was mentioned in a Thursday Bangor Daily News story about the welfare debate in Maine. The study, which Butler wrote with Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin of the University of New England, concluded that recent discussions of welfare reform make unfair generalizations about families who receive assistance.

A National Public Radio program about foreign policy and the need to compete innovatively in the world noted the North Star Alliance, a partnership involving UMaine, small companies, state government and community colleges, which leverages local research to spur development of a wide range of industries such as marine and waterfront construction and ballistic armor. […]