The Portland Press Herald reported Business Lending Solutions, a Hampden company that helps credit unions with commercial lending, is sponsoring the University of Maine’s Business Challenge with a $10,000 donation each year through 2018. In its sixth year, the UBC is a collegiate business competition for students attending Maine colleges and universities. Students from schools […]
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Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for vice president, mentioned the University of Maine in an opinion piece he wrote for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Working together, we can make an economy where prosperity is shared by all.” Kaine wrote the five-year $275 billion infrastructure plan he and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have proposed will […]
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R. Dean Astumian, a physics professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Quartz article, “The works that won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry — in terms a high school student would understand.” The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry recently was awarded to Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University, Ben Feringa of the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported members of the LGBTQ community at the University of Maine are preparing for a weeklong celebration beginning Oct. 11 to mark national Coming Out Day. Organizers told WABI it’s an opportunity to bring LGBTQ issues to the forefront, and that meetings in the Rainbow Resource Center on campus serve as strong […]
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Mainebiz profiled Charlotte Mace, executive director of Biobased Maine, as part of its 2016 NEXT series on the 10 people changing Maine’s economy for the better. Mace is passionate about the emerging biobased manufacturing sector and its potential to create new opportunities for adding value to Maine’s forest resources, according to the article. “Virtually any […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Bangor Daily News reported Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld will visit Bangor for a town hall meeting on Saturday, Oct. 8. Weld, who was the Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, is scheduled to appear for the two-hour event at 6 p.m. at the Spectacular Events Center, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on a taco-eating contest at Margaritas restaurant in Orono between local police and firefighters and members of the University of Maine fraternity Kappa Sigma. The event was held as a benefit for Special Olympics Maine, WABI reported.
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the four new self-guided walking tours of the University of Maine campus. The tours, which focus on gardens, outdoor sculptures, the historic district and other distinctive sights of the UMaine landscape, are illustrated on a website that is designed to be compatible with mobile devices that can take advantage of […]
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Justin Poland, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, was featured in the “Ask the Experts” section of the WalletHub report, “Are solar panels worth it? Experts pick sides.” According to Poland, solar panels used to heat domestic hot water will typically provide 50–75 percent per year of the domestic hot […]
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Mainebiz profiled Lucas St. Clair, president of the Portland-based Elliotsville Plantation Inc., as part of its 2016 NEXT series on the 10 people changing Maine’s economy for the better. St. Clair said he’s hoping to see the state’s economy diversify, using the millions of acres of trees for applications such as fabric, jet fuel and […]
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