The Bangor Daily News and Maine Public Broadcasting Network were among the news organizations reporting that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced a public comment period on plans by the Norwegian energy company Statoil to erect four floating wind turbines 12 nautical miles off the Maine coast. The […]
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The science website PhysOrg.composted a University of Maine news release about the University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center’s assistance helping a local company develop and prototype a new absorptive swab device designed to assist law enforcement, military and others identify potentially dangerous chemicals, explosives or biological agents immediately, instead of hours, days or weeks. Contact: […]
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Advanced Manufacturing Center helps develop next-generation hazardous materials sensor.
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members who are leading a group of college students from across the country on a weeklong field trip to Chile to study forest sustainability and forest products manufacturing. FBRI faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner are teaching a […]
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Research at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center was mentioned in a report on the Composites World website about the use of the resin infusion process in fiberglass composites. The story noted UMaine is investigating thermoplastic composite wind blades that could mean better performance under extreme heat. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed Jesse Moriarity, coordinator for UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation, which helps entrepreneurial UMaine students develop business and marketing plans for new ideas. Ph.D. candidate James Beaupre, a partner with UMaine political science graduate Nate Wildes in Stillwater Poster Company, which operates out of the Foster Center, also was interviewed for […]
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The website “north American WINDPOWER” posted an article about the engineering challenges facing Sandia National Laboratory’s wind energy researchers who are designing, with University of Maine engineering research assistance, floating vertical-axis wind turbines to be erected and moored off the Maine coast. The article also mentions related collaborative work involving Iowa State University, TPI Composites, […]
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University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner will accompany 10 undergraduate students from across the country on a weeklong trip to Chile as part of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program, a 10-week summer research experience based at UMaine and funded by the […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a report on a patent several University of Maine researchers received for a manufacturing process for composite deck and fence material. The patent was issued to Doug Gardner, UMaine professor of forest resources; Chris West, a research associate at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center; Yousoo Han, a UMaine assistant […]
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Jorg Imorger, the director of the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia, will give a University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series keynote address at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3 in Wells Conference Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Imorger’s talk, “Building Resilience: Recognizing There is […]
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