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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A Sunday WLBZ television story included perspectives from Paul Myer of the UMaine business faculty, discussing the demise of the printed telephone book. In the business context, Myer says, those publications are a “historical relic.”
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ORONO — Jonathan Rubin, a professor in the University of Maine School of Economics and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, has been appointed chair of a national committee looking at issues related to energy use and efficiency in passenger and freight transportation. The Transportation Energy Committee, which Rubin now chairs, is part of the Transportation […]
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Sarah Nelson, a researcher in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was interviewed last week for a segment on WERU radio’s “Talk of the Town” program. Along with representatives of Old Town High School and the Schoodic Education Research Center Institute, she discussed a collaborate project in mercury ecosystem science.
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Contact: Paul Myer, 581- 1992; Nory Jones, 581-1971; Harold Daniel, 581-1933 ORONO — Three University of Maine business school faculty members are available to discuss the implications of the potential cessation of telephone directory distribution in Maine, as is being done in a growing number of states, as consumers continue shifting to the Internet for […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — As the holiday shopping season jump-starts in the early morning hours of Friday, Nov. 26 with bargain-hungry consumers expected to jam the aisles possibly in record numbers, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon is available to discuss trends, traditions and the economic importance of […]
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