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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The UMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center’s work helping Falcon Performance Footwear in Auburn create molds and a composite material for new protective caps in the toes of boots to replace steel caps was noted in a Mainebiz article about innovators in Maine finding success with uniquely Maine products. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology in the U.K. has bestowed its prestigious IET Wireless Sensor Systems Premium Award to Ali Abedi of the University of Maine electrical and computer engineering faculty for a paper, “Signal detection in passive wireless sensor networks based on back-propagation neural networks,” which he co-authored and published in March 2011 […]
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The University of Maine campus was packed Monday, Aug. 27 with thousands of visitors from around the country for the third Summer Tour, a UMaine admissions event that gave prospective students and their guests the opportunity to ask questions about UMaine, tour the campus, get a glimpse of student life and even skate on the […]
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