WABI (Channel 5), News Center Maine, WVII (Channel 7) and Engineering.com reported on the July 12 reveal and testing of a composite bridge project at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The event was a test of the bridge’s capacities, with a goal to load the bridge with up to 120,000 pounds without […]
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The University of Maine unveiled an innovative, rapidly deployable bridge system Thursday, July 12 at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Engineers, Maine Department of Transportation officials, business leaders, investors, researchers, staff and representatives from Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (UMaine’s licensee for the original “Bridge-in-a-Backpack”) attended the event, at which a composite bridge girder was strength-tested […]
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The University of Maine is one of the more than 300 “best and most interesting” colleges in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, according to the “Fiske Guide to Colleges 2019” out this week. The guide’s profile of UMaine notes that undergraduates “help themselves to a range of strong academic programs at a […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,214 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2018 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,634 are from Maine, 533 are from 31 other states and 47 are from 21 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for spring 2018, completing 12 or more credit hours in the semester and […]
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This past flu season in Maine was the worst in at least five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control, with 9,018 reported cases, 82 deaths and 1,750 hospitalizations. Each year in the United States, 21,000–49,000 people die due to seasonal flu and its complications, and 95,000–172,000 people are hospitalized, according to CDC estimates. […]
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Maine Public interviewed Meredith Kirkmann, an assistant professor of construction engineering technology at the University of Maine, for a report on women in the construction industry. The construction workforce, like Maine’s workforce overall, faces a labor shortage. The industry is primarily white and male, and is aging as well. But half the potential workforce is […]
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The Associated Press reported the University of Maine received a $14 million award from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which will be used in the creation of the new Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center. The center will improve the longevity of infrastructure like bridges, roads and railways to save public funds. The award was given to […]
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has selected the University of Maine to lead the creation of a highly competitive University Transportation Center (UTC) called the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC). TIDC aims to save taxpayer dollars by extending the life of transportation assets, including bridges, roads and rail. The DOT will provide as […]
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Have you heard the old saying about selling seashells by the seashore? Well, what about telling sea stories about the seashore? If you haven’t yet, don’t worry, it’ll catch on soon. This summer, the Maine Discovery Museum is hosting SEANET education outreach assistant Jordan Houdeshell for a weekly Seaside Stories hour in downtown Bangor. The […]
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reNEWS reported that the University of Maine is a partner in a research team to create a wave energy converter that was one of five projects selected to receive $4.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office. The team, comprising Enorasy, Raytheon and Draper […]
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