Article on Student Science Prize Winner Cites UMaine Research
A Bangor Daily News article about Bangor High School student Will Benoit, who has received a prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize award, noted that Benoit has been working with professor of chemical engineering and director of UMaine’s paper surface science program Doug Bousfield and UMaine graduate student Finley Richmond on research to create cheaper water filtration alternatives for Third World countries. Benoit, who is summer intern at UMaine, is researching ways to use ground up plant fibers to construct water filters.
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