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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The future of United States and Pakistan relations is the subject of a free public presentation at 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7 at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House. Sponsored by the UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs and the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, the talk by Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani scholar and […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial suggested that the U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to invest grant money for research, development and testing of the nation’s first offshore floating wind turbines in Maine by the University of Maine and business and energy partners may help improve perceptions of the state’s business climate.
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Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for an article on the Hydrogen Fuel News website about UMaine’s development of prototype wind-energy test turbines for a planned offshore, floating wind farm, once the technology proves successful in demonstration models.
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In a news release posted on her office website, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has congratulated the University of Maine for recent U.S. Department of Energy grant funding to continue work developing what will eventually become the nation’s first offshore, floating wind-energy farm. The senator said the funding is potentially worth up to $47 million.
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