The University of Maine Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) has awarded seed funding to support pilot projects from three early career faculty during the 2023-24 academic year and through April 1, 2025. The seed funding from UMaine COBRE’s pilot project program will help awardees secure instruments and other supplies for their projects, all of […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, spoke with the Concord Monitor about BioHome3D, the first ever 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials, and how it endured one of Maine’s most volatile weather years during its first year of outdoor testing. “We wanted to see how it […]
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The International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CATES) gave Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, its 2023 Communication Prize. According to CATES, “the prize is awarded to the most outstanding audiovisual communication of excellence and innovation in technological sciences or engineering.” Howell won the prize with […]
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The past year has been a busy one for the University of Maine, and with the non-stop activity came numerous stories of student and faculty success, innovation, research with local and global impacts and exciting new services and facilities. As we look forward to 2024 and another year of accomplishments from and additions to the […]
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Mainebiz noted that the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) conducted research and development with Georgia Tech Research Institute that resulted in the creation of high-tech shipping containers, now manufactured by Global Secure Shipping. The company is an Old Town-based startup and spin-off from UMaine that continues to collaborate with its researchers. […]
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David Dvorak, professor of mechanical engineering technology at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News about why homeowners shouldn’t turn their furnaces off at night to conserve fuel and reduce heating costs. “In Maine if you turn off your furnace overnight you have to worry about stuff freezing, like your pipes,” said […]
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Markets Insider, Yahoo! Finance, WABI (Channel 5), Ocean News and Technology, Offshore Energy, Style Magazine and many other outlets highlighted the support provided by the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center in developing Oscilla Power’s prototype wave energy converter, which was recently deployed in Castine Harbor. The ASCC was charged with the structural […]
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KSNT (Channel 27 in Topeka, Kansas) and WIBW (Channel 13 in Topeka, Kansas) reported on a University of Maine-led effort to develop an interactive digital tool that will allow users to explore and analyze data on sites and sources of PFAS contamination throughout the U.S.
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BioHome3D, the first 100% bio-based 3D-printed home in the world, proves to be a viable solution to the growing housing crisis after one year of outdoor testing. Printed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), BioHome3D is a 600-square-foot home that was designed to meet Maine State Affordable Housing requirements. It […]
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In a story about a 3D-printed tiny house developed at the Woodbury University School of Architecture, Business Insider highlighted the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s BioHome3D, the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials.
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