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Media Cover High School Students Preparing for Wind Blade Challenge
Orono High School students visited the University of Maine to prepare for an upcoming engineering and design competition, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported. Instructors from the Advanced Structures and Composites Center helped students transform raw materials into solid, functional wind blades in advance of the seventh annual Wind Blade Challenge that will […]
Read moreUMaine to Host, Participate in Regional Concrete Canoe Competition
Editor’s note: Due to ice conditions on Lake George in Skowhegan, Saturday’s judging events will take place at the Steam Plant Lot on the UMaine campus. The race portion of the competition has been canceled. The University of Maine will participate in and host this year’s New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition April 24–25 in […]
Read morePress Herald Interviews Belding About High-Skill Jobs in Maine
The Portland Press Herald spoke with John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center, for an article about a new report that says Maine is trailing the rest of New England in developing advanced manufacturing jobs, which require a higher set of skills and also pay better than traditional manufacturing. The report, […]
Read moreWeekly Advances Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase
The Weekly published a University of Maine news release previewing the 2015 Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase to be held April 14 at Wells Conference Center. More than 200 students will display their research during the sixth annual event sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research. Presentations in the form of posters, oral presentations and […]
Read moreBDN Reports on Scheduled Speaker for 21st Annual HOPE Festival
The Bangor Daily News reported international engineering volunteer Robert Sypitkowski of Bangor will speak at the 21st annual HOPE Festival on April 25 at the University of Maine. Sypitkowski went from a career in theater design to a career as an environmental engineer after earning a degree in engineering at UMaine in 1990. He currently […]
Read moreWindpower TV Interviews Dagher, Viselli About Floating Turbine Platforms
Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine; and Anthony Viselli, an engineer at the UMaine Composites Center, sat down with Windpower TV to speak about developing the floating platform for VolturnUS, an offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed off the coast of Castine. Project manager Dagher […]
Read more2015 Graduate Academic Exposition Winners
More than 120 presentations were made during the 2015 Graduate Academic Exposition in separate categories of four areas of competition — posters, oral presentations, intermedia and fine arts exhibits, and a PechaKucha, or rapid-fire slide show event — as well as a photo contest. About $12,000 in prize money was awarded at this year’s expo, […]
Read moreMedia Report on Student’s Lobster Claw Strength, Shipping Viability Research
The Bangor Daily News, Associated Press, Maine Public Broadcasting Network and WNPR in Connecticut reported on research being conducted by Matthew Hodgkin, a fourth-year animal and veterinary sciences major at the University of Maine, under the guidance of Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine. The cross-discipline research project focused on developing […]
Read moreMaine Edge Advances 2015 Graduate Academic Exposition
The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about the Graduate Student Government’s 2015 Graduate Academic Exposition April 2–3. Work will be presented, judged and on display in the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center on campus. The event will feature four areas of competition — posters, oral presentations, intermedia and fine […]
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