Saturday - November 23, 2024
State Tipoffs Involving Maine Newsletter for Friday November 01, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Maine A.G. Frey Announces Significant Updates in Multistate Litigation Against Generic Drug Manufacturers Over Conspiracies to Inflate Prices and Limit Competition
AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 1 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2024: * * * Consumers Who Purchased Certain Generic Prescription Drugs in the United States between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2018 Might Be Eligible for Money * * * Attorney General Aaron M. Frey today announced two significant cooperation agreements and settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and a second corporation totaling $49.1 million. The agreements resolve allegations t  more

Thomas College Professors Learning How to Use AI as Teaching Tool, Help Students Prepare for Workforce
WATERVILLE, Maine, Nov. 1 -- Thomas College issued the following news release: By MacKenzie Riley Young Thomas College's H. Allen Ryan School of Business chair and professor Dr. Don Cragen recently completed a course by Harvard Business Publishing called Teaching with AI: Practical Approaches to Using Generative AI in Class. Dr. Cragen said he learned how to use case-based methods and prompt engineering, and how to avoid getting false information when using AI, and how to use it for his stude  more

University of Maine System Enrollment Growth Outpaces Northeast, Nation
ORONO, Maine, Nov. 1 -- The University of Maine System issued the following news release: * * * A formal count of students confirmed that the affordability of Maine's public universities, relevant new academic programs and direct admissions offers that are 'impossible to pass up' driving undergraduate, transfer, graduate and law enrollment increases * * * The University of Maine System (UMS) remains the state's leading driver of degree attainment and economic mobility, with official data rel  more

University of Maine: New NSF-Backed Research Addressing Threat of Security Breaches in Semiconductor Design
ORONO, Maine, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: The University of Maine has been awarded $400,000 as part of a $1.2 million collaborative research project titled "KIPPER: A Scalable Learning-Guided Hardware IP Protection Platform," funded by the National Science Foundation under its Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace initiative. The project, led by Prabuddha Chakraborty, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMaine, is set to   more