Comments from UMaine small business expert Jim McConnon, a Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, were included in a Bangor Daily News article Oct. 29 about the rise in entrepreneurial business ventures in recessionary times. Often, he says, individuals start their own businesses out of necessity. Micro-businesses and sole proprietorships are the backbone of […]
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UMaine PhD student Soren Hansen was featured in a Boston Globe story about his business Sea & Reef, one of only a few companies whose tropical saltwater fish are grown from eggs produced in captivity. Earlier this year, Hansen received a $200,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute to build a new facility at UMaine’s […]
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University of Maine police are investigating an incendiary device, apparently contained within a bottle, discovered early this afternoon outside the university’s Sawyer Environmental Research Center. A person passing by the south side of that building noticed charred bricks on the building’s exterior and contacted the UMaine police. Officers investigated and found evidence suggesting a small […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and crops specialist Steven Johnson was interviewed for an article in the fall issue of Wisconsin-based Rural Lifestyle Dealer magazine about the importance of tractor loader dealers properly informing customers of safety precautions and proper maintenance for equipment they are buying. The magazine is both online and mailed to […]
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Comments form Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Saturday Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story about new polls assessing the Maine gubernatorial race.
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UMaine students Jeff Sanford, Michael Pepin, Pete Christopher and Joel Martin, members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, are included in a WABI news report about legends of ghosts in that fraternity’s house.
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Friday story Associated Press story about issues surrounding political contributions to Maine Democrats by financier Donald Sussman.
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The UMaine chapter of Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity is working to help the local United Cerebal Palsy organization on a “Pumpkins in the Park” fundraiser during Halloween weekend. Fraternity member Tyler Fadrigon was a live guest on WABI television’s Friday morning news, discussing the project with reporter Joy Hollowell.
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Several UMaine faculty and researchers were highlighted in a Bangor Daily News story about an offshore wind power test site at Monhegan island. Peter Jumars, the director of UMaine’s School of Marine Scientists, was interviewed about environmental testing being performed at the site, and Bob Lindyberg of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center discussed […]
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Contact: Alan Parks, 581-2320 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Onward Program to help at-risk, first-generation and non-traditional college students get extra support as they begin their post-secondary academic careers, has received funding to create two new student scholarships. Maine Community Foundation (MCF), through the Thomas W. Musgrave and Beulah Long Musgrave Scholarship Fund, has […]
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