John Mahon of the UMaine Business School faculty was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about Maine’s ranking at the bottom of a recent Forbes magazine survey of business-friendly states. Mahon said he thought the ranking reflected the lack of a plan for sustainable economic development and a lack of effort in attracting business […]
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The Village Soup website cited a study done by UMaine’s Center on Aging that shows the legal needs of the elderly are on pace to outweigh available resources in the next few years. Lenard Kaye, the director of the Center on Aging, was one of the primary authors of the report.
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The website masshightech.com had a story about R&D programs that recently received funding from the Maine Technology Institute’s Maine Technology Asset Fund, including five UMaine projects that were allotted a combined $3.5 million in awards.
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WABI television broadcast a Wednesday news story about Wednesday’s engineering career fair, organized by the UMaine Career Center. The story includes an interview with Career Center director Patty Counihan.
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and Lewiston Sun Journal have all published reports previewing the 2010-2011 UMaine Black Bear basketball seasons. The teams held their annual media days on Wednesday.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Jim Chasse at (207) 866-4916 ORONO — The Orono School Committee Wednesday night approved an initial agreement that will set aside University of Maine housing space and create other university-based opportunities for international students attending Orono High School. Under the agreement, which takes the form of a memorandum of […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7920; Jaye Martin, Legal Services for the Elderly, (207) 621-0087 ORONO — A recent study of legal needs of aging Mainers by the University of Maine Center on Aging has confirmed that the number of older people needing legal services will outweigh available resources in the future. Up to half of […]
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Contact: Michael Bilodeau, 949-4177; Andrew Plant, 764-3361 A $1.65 million award from the Maine Technology Asset Fund will enable the University of Maine Biomass Engineered Fuel Project to prototype the Northeast’s first grass pellet production facility in Aroostook County. “The grant will allow the University of Maine to better support the emerging solid biofuels industry […]
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Deb Neuman, director of UMaine’s Target Technology Incubator, appeared Wednesday morning on WKSQ radio to discuss the Nov. 10 conference, “Invention to Venture: Maine 2010.” UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance will sponsor the event, along with the Target Technology Incubator.
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Several news organizations covered Tuesday’s deepwater offshore wind energy conference in Northport. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center organized the conference as part of the DeepCWind Consortium. UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher, the UMaine center’s director and the driving force behind offshore wind technology development, was interviewed in the news stories developed by WLBZ/WCSH, WABI, […]
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