The Bangor Daily News interviewed Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about plans to move a 57-foot-tall, scale-model wind turbine being built at UMaine to Castine harbor in April for testing. The project is part of a wind-energy demonstration project expected to lead to a much larger offshore wind […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed University of Maine Career Center Director Patty Counihan, students and exhibitors at the annual UMaine Career Fair Jan. 30 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Channel 7 (WVII) also covered the event, which was attended by an estimated 1,000 UMaine students.
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,035 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Fall 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,696 are from Maine, 277 are from out of state, and 62 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Fall […]
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The online maritime news website MarineLink.com has posted a University of Maine news release about the $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center for continued research and development of a pilot offshore wind energy turbine system. The funding is expected to leverage as much as […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine System Board of Trustees on Jan. 28 approved a $3.2 million project to renovate Estabrooke Hall at the University of Maine and convert the dormitory to a new “collaborative and active learning classroom” and create space for the UMaine Honors College, the newspaper said. Trustees also […]
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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, in a column published in the Seacoast Online newspaper, cited deepwater, offshore wind energy research and development being conducted at the University of Maine as among the noteworthy accomplishments of 2012 and priorities for 2013. She said federal funding to support offshore wind energy is a boost for the Maine economy. […]
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The Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald reported on the Jan. 24 decision by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to allow Norway’s Statoil North America company, with which the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is collaborating with materials testing, to proceed with plans to build a $120 million deepwater wind […]
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University of Maine Professor of Civil Engineering Per Garder was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report about his research showing that highway roundabouts are safer than traditional four-way intersections.
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Transportation research finds roundabouts are the way to go for drivers of any age.
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As many as 1,000 University of Maine students and more than 103 businesses, firms and organizations are preparing for the 2013 Career Fair from 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Coordinated this year by the UMaine Career Center and the School of Forest Resources, the annual event connects […]
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