The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor Daily News, advanced a series of Hispanic heritage appreciation events in September and October, all scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at the Bangor Public Library. University of Maine engineering graduate student Raul Urbina, a native of Mexico City, will discuss Mexico’s role in a global economy […]
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A Bangor Daily News article featured research by UMaine Ph.D. student Alper Kiziltas, who is creating new heat-resistant automotive plastics from natural materials like wood flour, hemp and flax instead of glass and carbon fibers. Kiziltas said his recent research has established that natural fillers can stand the stress of high temperatures and are low-cost, […]
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The University of Maine will host the daylong Maine EPSCoR State Conference, starting at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 24 at the Wells Conference Center. The conference, “Building Partnerships for Sustainability Solutions,” will focus on enhancing sustainable science research collaboration. Keynote speaker Curt Spalding, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 1 administrator, will discuss “Sustainable Solutions […]
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University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on the economics of an offshore, deep-water wind farm project being managed by the DeepCwind Consortium, which includes UMaine researchers and the Statoil North America company. Gov. Paul LePage’s energy czar Ken Fletcher has challenged the […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 2 (WLBZ) reported that University of Maine researchers will join other Maine Tidal Power Initiative collaborators Tuesday in Trescott near Cobscook Bay for a daylong public meeting that will update UMaine’s ongoing research into tidal power. The university is working with the Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Company on the nation’s […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed Victoria Blanchette, communications specialist in the College of Engineering, about Blanchette’s new electric bicycle, on which she commutes to the university from Bangor to reduce gasoline purchases. Blanchette figures she’ll save as much as $1,600 a year. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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News that the tidal power project in Eastport, Maine, for which UMaine engineers, marine scientists, oceanographers and social scientists provided research, is now providing energy to the U.S. power grid for the first time was reported in several national media outlets. An Associated Press story was posted on the Washington Post, Huffington Post and CBS […]
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The release of a report about the value of offshore wind power brought several media mentions of research being done at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which is looking at deepwater offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. Center director Habib Dagher told the Bangor Daily News that, while growing technologies such as […]
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An Associated Press article about a forthcoming report on what needs to be done to make offshore wind power in Maine a reality notes that the University of Maine leads a consortium of nonprofits, utilities and businesses planning floating wind turbines that will generate 5 gigawatts of power by 2030. The report, “The Turning Point […]
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A UMaine initiative on ocean power brings together researchers, businesses and government officials for a project review session.
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