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UMaine Business Students Lend Skills to Boost Nonprofit

Members of the University of Maine MBS (Maine Business School) Corps were interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report on volunteer assistance the group provided Aunt Nellie’s Attic, a thrift store in Holden that benefits the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor. Students shared knowledge about marketing, product placement, customer relations and other aspects […]

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Daniel Discusses ‘Tourism Quality Label’ with MPBN

Harold Daniel, associate professor of marketing in the Maine Business School, joined retired Bowdoin Professor David Vail and Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Irwin Gratz for a news feature about the marketing potential of a “tourism quality label” that might be ascribed to certain hotels, restaurants and businesses that cater to tourists as a way to […]

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Werrbach Named to Truth and Reconciliation Commission

In December, Associate Professor of Social Work Gail Werrbach was named as one of five members of the newly established Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She and the other commissioners — alumnus Matthew Dunlap, UMaine adjust instructor gkisedtanamoogk, Sandra White Hawk and Carol Wishcamper — will be seated in a ceremony Feb. […]

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Women’s Hockey Promoting ‘Skating Strides’ for Cancer Research

The University of Maine women’s ice hockey team is raising money for the annual Hockey East Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign. Team members have been selling pink paper pucks at UMaine sporting events and will hold an auction of their game-worn pink jerseys during their game at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 against Boston […]

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Collins Lauds UMaine Offshore Wind Energy Research

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, in a column published in the Seacoast Online newspaper, cited deepwater, offshore wind energy research and development being conducted at the University of Maine as among the noteworthy accomplishments of 2012 and priorities for 2013. She said federal funding to support offshore wind energy is a boost for the Maine economy. […]

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News Media Reports PUC Approval of Offshore Wind Project

The Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald reported on the Jan. 24 decision by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to allow Norway’s Statoil North America company, with which the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is collaborating with materials testing, to proceed with plans to build a $120 million deepwater wind […]

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Marine Researcher Joins MPBN Aquaculture Discussion

Dana Morse, a Marine Extension associate with the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and Maine Sea Grant, was a guest Jan. 24 on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network program “Maine Calling,” discussing the future of the Maine seafood industry with Sam Grimley of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s Sustainable Seafood Program and Annie […]

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