Economic Development

WABI reports on tourism, economic development project Undiscovered Maine

WABI (Channel 5) detailed Undiscovered Maine, a University of Maine tourism and economic development research project in which students learn web and social media strategies while offering assistance to small businesses in Aroostook County, the Down East region, and the western lakes and mountains. “It involves a lot of research. It involves marketing. It involves […]

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Media highlight open applications for Innovate for Maine Fellows

News Center Maine, Centralmaine.com and the Penobscot Bay Pilot noted that the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Innovation is seeking Maine students and Maine companies to participate in the 2021 Innovate for Maine Fellows internship program. The program connects college students with companies in the state to grow and create jobs in Maine through innovation and entrepreneurship, the […]

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Innovate for Maine Fellows opens applications for students, companies

The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation seeks Maine students and Maine companies to participate in the 2020 Innovate for Maine Fellows internship program. Innovate for Maine Fellows connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting companies as a way to grow and create jobs in Maine through […]

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UMPI, Graduate School of Business team to expand opportunities

The University of Maine at Presque Isle has helped develop another opportunity for the business community in northern Maine. Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce members and their employees, as well as members of Momentum Aroostook, will receive a 12% tuition discount on MaineMBA courses at the University of Maine Graduate School of Business. The discount […]

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Mainebiz reports on startups selected for 2020 Top Gun program

Mainebiz reported the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs announced 44 businesses have been selected for the Top Gun 2020 Class. The announcement was made along with the center’s partners the University of Maine, Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Focus Maine, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, the Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation at Thomas […]

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Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition information sessions begin Jan. 31

The Graduate School and Foster Center for Student Innovation are co-sponsoring the UMaine Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.  All finalists will be invited to give their presentations at the University of Maine Student Symposium on April 17. First prize is $500, second prize is $300 and third prize is $200. The first-prize winner also will be […]

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President Ferrini-Mundy talks with PPH about Roux Institute

Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about Northeastern University’s plan to create a graduate school and research center in Portland that offers certificate programs, master’s degrees and doctorates in machine learning and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on life […]

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McConnon quoted in PPH piece about growth of specialty food, beverage businesses

James C. McConnon Jr. talked with the Portland Press Herald for its story about the rising number of specialty food and beverage businesses in the state. McConnon, a Cooperative Extension business and economics specialist and economics professor at the University of Maine, said according to federal census data, the number of food and beverage manufacturing […]

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Seafood Source notes UMaine, CCAR in economic development story

The University of Maine was included in a SeafoodSource story about Gov. Janet Mills’ 10-year strategic economic development plan to grow the state’s economy. Kingfish Zeeland, which is seeking to build a recirculating aquaculture system facility in Jonesport, Maine, recently announced a partnership with the state’s flagship University of Maine campus, according to the story. Kingfish […]

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UMaine wood tech featured in NHPR report on what’s next for timber

Several University of Maine initiatives aimed at boosting the state’s forest economy were featured in a New Hampshire Public Radio piece looking at what’s next for New Hampshire timber. The article mentioned several UMaine School of Forest Resources projects that aim to develop new products using wood and wood scraps. The products include new kinds […]

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