The following information from the Division of Student Affairs relates to parking and traffic on campus leading up to Friday, Aug. 31 and the Maine Hello. As the University of Maine prepares for the arrival of the Class of 2016 on Friday, Aug. 31 it is important to be aware of parking lot closures and […]
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Local podiatrist Todd O’Brien has won the top prize at the 2012 American Podiatric Medical Association’s annual scientific meeting for his oral abstract on an electronic tuning fork he invented and developed with assistance from the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center, the UMaine Foster Center for Student Innovation and the Maine Technology Institute. Tuning […]
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The Advanced Structures and Composites Center tests black locust samples bound for a park near the famed Brooklyn Bridge.
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University of Maine professor of forest resources Doug Gardner will officially become a fellow of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and other UMaine faculty members and students will be honored for their work this week at the SWST meeting in Beijing, China. SWST recognizes fellows for their significant contributions to the wood […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and an authority on wind power and offshore power generation, was a recent call-in guest on the Falmouth-based TideSmart Talk with Stevoe program, which airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on WLOB (1310 AM) in Portland. Dagher discussed the diversity of work and innovation at […]
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Two University of Maine undergraduate engineering students are heading this week to a national engineering ambassadorship-training workshop for students interested in creating engineering ambassador outreach programs at their institutions. The workshop will be held Aug. 16-19 at Penn State University. Sheila Pendse, program development associate in the UMaine College of Engineering, will accompany Devin Rose […]
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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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