The Bangor Daily News carried an Associated Press report and an online video about the annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative conference held Thursday at, and co-organized by, the University of Maine. More than 1,000 Maine middle and high school students participated in multiple breakout groups on computer game creation and software applications, and collaborated with […]
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The coastal newspaper The Free Press published an article about the postponement of the launch of a test wind-energy turbine off Monhegan Island from this summer to 2013 because of pending permits for the project. Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center, told the paper that all of the permits are […]
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The University of Maine has committed $1,000 in scholarships for 17 students who win a drawing during the 9th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Student Conference Thursday at UMaine. Ten scholarships are bring offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, five from the School of Computing and Information Science, and two from […]
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The website RECHARGE mentioned UMaine in a report on a novel wind turbine development. The website noted plans by the designers of a novel, ultra-large offshore vertical axis wind blade system to engage UMaine in the proof-of-concept research stage of its development in 2016. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Two brothers from Orrington, Maine, have won top prize in the first annual UMaine Business Challenge for UMaine student entrepreneurs. UMaine marketing student Luke Thomas and Jake Thomas, an outdoor recreation and business student at the University of Maine at Farmington, won $5,000 cash and start-up business support to promote and market their company, AerialFly, […]
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Western Farm Press, a national agricultural magazine covering agribusiness, has posted on its website a University of Maine video on the university’s advancing research and production of wood-based biofuels. The magazine notes that the research is of interest to the U.S. military for use in jet fuel. In the video, UMaine researchers discuss a major […]
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Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory founder Michael “Mick” Peterson has been contracting with track owners and racing industry leaders to test track surfaces, both natural and synthetic.
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An editorial in the Bangor Daily News about state bonding cited the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center and its research and development of deepwater offshore wind energy turbines as an example of the favorable return on investment that bonding can produce. UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory is addressing the energy needs of the […]
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The OffshoreWIND.biz website in the Netherlands has posted an article from the Portland Press Herald about a winning Madison High School student entry in the recent Windstorm Challenge held at UMaine. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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