The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce (BRCC) presented Renee Kelly, University of Maine assistant vice president for innovation and economic development, with the Arthur A. Comstock Professional Service Award on Jan. 25 at its Annual Awards Dinner. The award embodies Comstock’s generous spirit for donating expertise over an extended period of time to the chamber […]
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Ali Abedi, assistant vice president for research and director of the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Maine and professor of electrical and computer engineering, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was new, space-focused businesses in Maine and the state’s role in space innovation, as […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Sara Rademaker, the founder of elver-growing startup company American Unagi LLC, grew her business at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole before taking the next step. The company buys elvers, or young eels, from local harvesters and grows them to market size using land-based aquaculture practices. Rademaker […]
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“Speaking in Maine,” a public affairs lecture series hosted by Maine Public, ran a keynote address by Habib Dagher, executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. Dagher’s address from the Mainebiz “Conference on Maine Energy & How to Build an Economy Around the Energy Industry” discussed Maine’s potential […]
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University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias marine experts will give a 90-minute briefing to the 129th Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources during its Jan. 17 meeting that begins at 1 p.m. The intent of the briefing is to provide an overview of the expertise and resources UMaine and UMM have […]
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Applications are being accepted for the first cohort of UMaine I-Corps that will begin Feb. 8. In 2018, the National Science Foundation selected the University of Maine as the state’s first I-Corps Site. I-Corps helps foster innovation and entrepreneurship by providing faculty, staff and students with the tools and guidance needed to identify the market […]
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The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs announced 46 businesses have been selected for the Top Gun 2019 Class, Mainebiz reported. The announcement was made along with the center’s partners University of Maine, Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, MaineStream Finance and Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation at Thomas College. The Top Gun program is entering […]
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Philip Trostel, an economics and public policy professor at the University of Maine School of Economics and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, spoke with Mainebiz for the article, “Hiring pressures push companies to unprecedented lengths to find workers.” Maine’s unemployment rate in October was 3.4 percent, according to seasonally adjusted data from the Maine Department […]
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As part of an interdisciplinary team examining ways to reduce food waste in Maine, a researcher in the University of Maine School of Economics and his undergraduate student assistant recently were awarded $17,000 from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a startup composting program in the midcoast region. The funds will help implement […]
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The University of Maine has been selected by the National Science Foundation as Maine’s first I-Corps Site. Applications to be part of UMaine’s first I-Corps cohort, which will begin Feb. 8, are being accepted. The site activities help foster innovation and entrepreneurship by providing faculty, staff and students with the tools and guidance needed to […]
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