UMaine’s Paint, Plant and Polish Initiative Enters its Second Year
UMaine’s Paint, Plant and Polish initiative enters its second year.
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Press Herald Reports on Project>Login Promotion at Portland Event
The Portland Press Herald reported that Michael Dubyak, chairman, president and CEO of South Portland-based WEX Inc., and chairman of the business-led nonprofit Educate Maine, promoted Project>Login at the Portland Community Chamber’s monthly Eggs & Issues event Wednesday. Project>Login, led by Educate Maine and the University of Maine System, is a new initiative designed to […]
Read moreCompositesWorld Gives Update on Floating Turbine Deployment Efforts
CompositesWorld spoke with UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher about the center’s efforts to develop a scale model of a floating wind turbine for testing off the coast of Maine. At the Offshore Wind Power USA 2013 conference in Boston on Feb. 26–27, Dagher said the test turbine is progressing well and […]
Read moreBDN Reports on UMaine Team’s Race to Use Lasers to Gauge Ocean Wind Speeds
A Bangor Daily News article on the University of Maine offshore wind team’s international race to develop a system to measure winds high above oceans using a buoy-based light detection and ranging system, or LiDAR, included comments from UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher. UMaine’s School of Marine Science’s Physical Oceanography Group […]
Read moreChannel 7 Airs Second Segment of Dagher Profile
Channel 7 (WVII) aired the second segment in a two-part profile of Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, who discussed his interest in science and inventions as a child in Lebanon. Dagher today is considered an international leader in research and development of offshore floating wind turbine technology. The profile […]
Read moreChannel 7 Profiles Dagher
Channel 7 (WVII) aired the first of a two-part profile of Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and leading authority of offshore wind energy research and development. The station’s Feb. 26 newscast will include more about Dagher and how his personal interest in the technology developed.
Read moreNews Reports on New Maine, IT Initiative
A Bangor Daily News article about a new Project>Login initiative designed to attract more students in Maine to information technology programs at the University of Maine and other colleges and universities in the state included comments from University of Maine President Paul Ferguson, Harlan Onsrud, a UMaine professor of computer science and information technology, and […]
Read moreNews Media Reports UMaine Spring Break Projects
The San Francisco Chronicle was among news organizations to publish an Associated Press article about dozens of UMaine students leaving over spring break March 4–15 to do volunteer work in Central America and across the United States, helping in schools, health clinics and orphanages, and buildings homes and a sanitation system. Channel 5 (WABI) and […]
Read moreProject>Login Holds Campus Networking Reception for Students, Maine Businesses
UMaine students interested in IT internships and jobs after graduation are invited to a Project>Login networking reception from 5–7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 25, in Room 3, Wells Conference Center. The reception is an opportunity for students majoring in computer science and computer engineering to meet IT professionals and leaders of some of the Maine companies […]
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UMaine Students Rolling Up Sleeves for Spring Break Volunteerism
Many UMaine students spending spring break far afield in outreach efforts.
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