Dagher Named A 2011 Newsmaker

The Bangor Daily News named Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, one of its 11 people to watch in 2011. Dagher has led a $25 million effort to research the future of deepwater offshore wind power, an effort which will include the opening later this year of a wind turbine testing facility on the UMaine campus. In addition, the center is working with officials from a Russian construction company considering for the 2014 Winter Olympics use of composite bridge technology developed at the center.