The Sappi North America 2022 Sustainability Report noted the company’s collaboration with Caitlin Howell, associate professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, to study the use of Sappi’s texturing technology to build mass-manufactured, low-cost microfluidics that also have a low environmental impact. 3BL Media shared the report, and the Greenville Advocate, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine will expand the Solutions for Maine R&D and Innovation Hub, based out of UMaine’s Foster Center for Innovation and run by the University’s Office of Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Resources and Engagement, with $2.5 million in Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan funding. The program provides services […]
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Nominations have been extended for the Foster Center Innovation Awards, a recognition and celebration of the students, faculty, staff and alumni who are making entrepreneurial or social impact solutions a reality in Maine and beyond. This is the second year the Foster Center will host the Innovation Awards in the categories described below. Community nominations […]
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MaineBiz and the Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine’s MIRTA accelerator program through the Foster Center for Innovation has selected five teams for its 2023 cohort. The 2023 projects will develop research innovations in photovoltaic and color changing fabric; a new technology in catheterization to reduce infection in long-term patients; custom-made medical […]
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MaineBiz reported that the Innovate for Maine Fellows Program at the Foster Center for Innovation at the University of Maine is looking to double the cohort size this year to around 50 fellows. “This is made possible by additional funding from the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to address the challenges startups and small businesses […]
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MaineBiz, Yahoo Life, Business Wire and the Bangor Daily News reported on the winners of the 2022 Tyler Technologies Maine App Challenge, a contest that challenges high school students to show off their skills and creativity by building a mobile application. Tyler Technologies collaborated with the Foster Center for Innovation at the University of Maine […]
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Innovation has announced the winners of its inaugural Innovation Awards, who will be honored in a ceremony at the center April 14 as part of Maine Impact Week. The Innovation Awards were developed to recognize and celebrate the students, faculty, staff and alumni who are working to commercialize […]
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Emma Wilson, an entrepreneurship events and marketing coordinator at the University of Maine, talked with WVII (Channel 7) about Maine’s Big Gig, a competition aimed at jump-starting small businesses. Contestants pitch their ideas to an expert panel to win money and advance their businesses. Mainebiz also previewed the event.
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Jason Harkins, associate dean of the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, and Renee Kelly, an assistant vice president for innovation and economic development at UMaine, in reporting on small local businesses and start-up companies that have benefitted from partnerships with the University of Maine. Two such […]
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Mainebiz cited the University of Maine as a partner in the Top Gun initiative, a program that has assisted more than 300 entrepreneurs in successfully growing their businesses through a combination of structured classroom curriculum and in-depth mentoring. The program concludes with a pitch competition for a $25,000 prize. The Cubby, a Waterville startup that […]
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