WABI (Channel 5) reported on the “Top Gun Entrepreneurship Accelerator Showcase” hosted by the University of Maine on May 12. Two of the seven small businesses will move on to the final round to compete for a $25,000 prize.
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News Center Maine talked with Emma Wilson, Big Gig coordinator at the University of Maine, about the final event of the 2021 season. According to Wilson, conducting the pitch-off events virtually has facilitated increased participation and publicity for the contestants and their businesses. Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of Maine System vice chancellor for research and innovation […]
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Marin Skincare is a Maine story. It started in 2013 when co-founders Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding met on the first day of their first year as biomedical engineering undergraduate students at the University of Maine. Nearly eight years later, the pair has relocated to Portland, launched a specialty skincare product made with lobster glycoprotein, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Emma Wilson, University of Maine entrepreneurship events and marketing coordinator, about the last episode of the season of the “Big Gig Pitch-Off.” The episode has been shared on the Big Gig Facebook page.
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Innovation is seeking Maine students and Maine companies to participate in the 2021 Innovate for Maine Fellows internship program. Applications are now open. The Innovate for Maine Fellows Program connects the best and brightest Maine college students with Maine’s most exciting growing companies for paid, meaningful, hands-on internship […]
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The Advertiser Democrat and Centralmaine.com picked up a University of Maine news release announcing CRIS, a new certificate program in research innovation and strategy. Participants in the four-course program will gain hands-on experience in UMaine research centers, and apply emerging technologies to creatively solve problems. More information about the program is online.
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University of Maine professor of clinical nutrition Dorothy Klimis-Zacas has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute (MTI) to support research into the wound-healing properties of bioactive compounds found in Maine wild blueberries. Klimis-Zacas has been researching the favorable effects of wild blueberries on human health for more than 20 years. Her […]
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Six student-run companies from the University of Maine are featured on the current season of the “Greenlight Maine” Collegiate Challenge, a televised, multi-round pitch competition in which students from schools across the state square off against one another for the chance to win a $25,000 grand prize to help grow their business. The first episode […]
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