Contact: Hemant Pendse, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, managing director of UMaine’s NSF EPSCoR forest bioproducts project, (207) 581-2290; Steve Shaler, professor of Wood Science Technology, associate director of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center,ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine announced today that it has been awarded a read more $6.9 Million Federal Grant Will Build Bioproducts Research at UMaine, Will Help Industry Create Forest Biorefinery