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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Portland Press Herald mentioned a University of Maine-led initiative in the editorial, “Ocean wind power back on track in Maine.” Maine Aqua Ventus, a one-of-a kind floating wind energy platform, has the funding to build a full-size, one-turbine demonstration project, two miles south of Monhegan Island using technology developed at UMaine, the editorial states. […]
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The Penobscot Times mentioned the UpStart Center for Entrepreneurship in Orono, a University of Maine-run incubator program with a diverse mix of companies, in an article about an expansion of Box of Maine. The company offers customizable gift boxes filled with Maine items, from blueberry soap to whoopie pies and red hot dogs. Box of […]
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