A demonstration of geotechnical boring techniques will take place between the Belgrade Spur and Belgrade Parking Lot from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19. Provided by S.W. Cole Explorations, LLC, the demonstration is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in geotechnical drilling and its professional applications. Students in CIE 460 Geotechnical Engineering are […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the opening of Hirundo Wildlife Refuge’s “Trail of the Senses.” The ADA-compliant trail was created in partnership with the University of Maine. The first completed section was constructed by a group of 18 students in UMaine professor Will Manion’s CET 458 Management of Construction course, WABI reported.
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Katie Doyle was raised by a family of engineers who encouraged her to tinker and ask questions. “My grandfather gave me my first electronics kit when I was 5, and I made every project in the book,” she says. “Engineering was always kind of on my radar as being something I would enjoy.” Doyle’s family […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported two families have been selected for houses in Old Town through Habitat Bangor’s home ownership program. The city of Old Town donated two houses to the program last year, according to the article. One of the homes has been demolished to make way for a new one, and the other […]
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Three University of Maine undergraduates have received early acceptance to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine Track Early Assurance program. Trevor Morin, a microbiology major from Scarborough, Maine; Drew Brooks, a microbiology and music double major from Lyman, Maine; and Austin Steward, a bioengineering major and Honors College student from Colebrook, New Hampshire, […]
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The Island Institute’s Working Waterfront Estuary Beat featured the citizen science initiative of of Kim Huguenard, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Laura Rickard, assistant professor of risk communication. The project is focused in understanding the physical characteristics of estuaries which may intensify or attenuate the effects of storm surge events. According to […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on GO Logic, a Maine energy-efficient home building company, that aims to produce innovative wood-fiber insulating boards through its new subsidiary, GO Lab Inc. Joshua Henry, GO Lab’s president, is a chemist and materials engineer, and a former professor at UMaine. Later this […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the annual University of Maine Systemwide Aging Initiative Summer Workshop at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The state’s median age is 45 — the oldest in America — and Maine has the largest proportion of baby boomers, according to the UMaine Center on Aging. Recognizing mobility is critical as people […]
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The Boston Globe, WSB-TV (Channel 2 in Atlanta), NECN, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WMTW8 , Bangor Daily News, The Free Press, Washington Post, and Pickens County Courier of South Carolina and reported University of Maine researchers and students from the school’s High Altitude Ballooning group will travel to Clemson, South Carolina to launch […]
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Brewer engineering business Compotech Inc. was the focus of the Bangor Daily News feature, “Where the Bangor region’s future job growth will probably come from.” The article argues economic development in the Bangor area is likely to look like Compotech Inc., a business with 10 employees that got its start at the University of Maine. […]
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