UMaine Composites Center featured in George Smith column
The Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel published a column by Maine outdoors writer George Smith, titled “Composites Center among the amazing things happening at University of Maine.” “The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine in Orono is an amazing place, working with 500 clients all over the world, and winners of 40 national and international awards,” the column states. Smith wrote that he met with Habib Dagher, executive director of the center, and Jake Ward, UMaine’s vice president of innovation and economic development, to learn about the many initiatives going on at the center. The $160 million complex of buildings, totaling 100,000 square feet, includes a laboratory employing more than 180 people, the article states.