The Maine Business School announced the winners of its inaugural “Shark Tank” event on Dec. 13, in which first-year students pitched ideas for side hustles in a competition that evoked the TV show of the same name. Six students took center stage at the event, sharing their innovative ideas to a panel of judges and […]
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Retention for UMaine Machias jumped more than 10 percentage points and is the highest in at least a decade Extra efforts in recent years to help first-year students adjust to college life and succeed academically and socially are paying off for the University of Maine as the first-to-second-year retention rate this fall is the highest […]
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“Life in the Pines,” an unscripted video series sharing stories of students at the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, launched Monday, Dec. 16. Prioritizing authenticity, this series seeks to show what life is really like here in the Pine Tree State for students at both campuses — including traditional undergraduate, transfer, […]
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Editor’s note: President Joe Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law on Dec. 24. The U.S. Senate last week passed the Stop Campus Hazing Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at preventing hazing on college campuses nationwide. The legislation previously passed the House of Representatives, and has been sent to President Joe Biden for […]
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Printing Services at the University of Maine will wrap gifts brought to Hotel Ursa in historic Holmes Hall in exchange for a donation of non-perishable items for the Black Bear Exchange food drive. Staff of Printing Services and UMaine’s Auxiliary Enterprises will be in the hotel’s MajorMinor Cafe on Thursday, Dec. 19 from 12:30–2:30 p.m. […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2024-25 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) academic year graduate fellowship winners. The CUGR Research and Creative Activities fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate and graduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through the Office of the Vice […]
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The University of Maine has been named a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting, recognizing the university’s effort to increase nonpartisan student voter participation. UMaine is one of 471 colleges and universities recognized by ALL IN for joining the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge. As part of this effort, the university […]
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After spending an entire semester developing an idea for and starting a business, first-year students from the University of Maine will jump into the “Shark Tank” on Friday, Dec.13. The Maine Business School is hosting a “Shark Tank” event — which will evoke the TV show of the same name — at 11 a.m. in […]
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A group of history students at the University of Maine have partnered with the city of Bangor to rehabilitate signs on the Kenduskeag Stream Heritage Trail, a 2.2-mile urban and wilderness footpath that intersects downtown Bangor. Eight students created interpretive signs to replace damaged ones at points of interest along the trail. The new signs […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2024-25 academic year fellowship awardees. This year’s awards were supported by CUGR, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Maine EPSCoR office through a National Science Foundation award, the Experiential Programs Innovation Central (EPIC) program and […]
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