Comments from UMaine School of Economics professor Philip Trostel are included in a PolitiFact Ohio story assessing Gov.-elect John Kasich’s criticisms of the state’s public education system. Referencing a report that Trostel developed, Kasich says that Ohio spends to much money on school administration and not enough on classroom instruction. State education officials say that […]
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Jim McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, was interviewed for a Nov. 22 news report on Channel 5 (WABI) about consumer shopping forecasts in advance of Nov. 26, the traditional Black Friday shopping bonanza, which can help retailers bolster their businesses and put ledgers in the black. McConnon and Nory Jones, associate […]
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Nory Jones of the UMaine business faculty was the primary source for a Friday WLBZ/WCSH television story about marketing strategies that retailers employ in the few days following Thanksgiving.
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Mainebiz had a story about the possibility of UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology being used at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. A Russian company which is working on transportation infrastructure projects at the Olympics signed a memorandum of understanding with Orono-based Advanced Infrastructure Technologies, which is commercializing the bridge technology developed at the university’s AEWC Advanced […]
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Contact: Nory Jones, 581-1971 Nine in 10 retailers are telling the National Retail Association’s survey partners they are planning special Cyber Monday sales and specials, with plenty of free shipping, on what has become the biggest online shopping day of the year. On Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving, as many as 54.5 percent […]
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Contact: Terry Porter, 581-1990 ORONO — The Maine Business School’s Business and Sustainability Program recently received a Learning Circle Grant from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Assessment (CETA) at UMaine to explore and develop ways to enhance sustainability in the business school curriculum and program. The grant will allow members of the MBS […]
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a report on a Wednesday hearing held by the UMaine Faculty Senate’s Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee. The session was intended to gather public feedback about the proposal to suspend UMaine’s Dept. of Public Administration. Several members of the UMaine community, including faculty members in that department, spoke at […]
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Contact: Jim Settele, (207) 581-1835 “Political Violence in Zimbabwe: A Curse or An Age Old Culture” is the topic of the next Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, supported by the UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs, Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 a.m. at the Bangor Public Library lecture hall and at 11 a.m. in the […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922, Nancy Webster, (207) 217-8185 BANGOR — For most people, the holiday season is traditionally a time for giving thanks and celebrating, but for many, holidays can be lonely, discouraging times of isolation. Homebound elders, people with debilitating health issues, newly divided families or people who have recently lost a loved […]
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Today’s edition of the Bangor Daily News includes a news release about UMaine business and marketing professor Paul Myer and graduate student Kathy Welch embarking on a collaborative market study with merchants in downtown Orono. The object, Myer says, is to consider new ways to capitalize on the synergy between the University of Maine and […]
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