Bangor TV station WABI reported on Wednesday’s balloon launch in Farmington, which involved UMaine faculty members and students. The UMaine representatives worked with students from Maine Maritime Academy and USM to help high school students launch giant scientific balloons as part of an experiment to see how different living organisms react to high altitudes. UMaine […]
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An article in the Portland Press Herald about a winning Madison High School student entry in the recent wind technology challenge held at the University of Maine included perspective from Habib Dagher, direct of the UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which hosted the challenge. According to the article, Dagher likened the potential economic benefits […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about a surprise graduation ceremony held at Eastern Maine Medical Center Wednesday for engineering major Jackie Blanchard of Corinth, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. UMaine President Paul Ferguson, College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey, former Gov. John Baldacci, UMaine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron and dozens of […]
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The Classified Employees Advisory Council and the Professional Employees Advisory Council have announced the University of Maine’s outstanding employees of the year.
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The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold-certified building on the UMaine campus.
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University of Maine mechanical engineering professor Mick Peterson spent the weekend at the Churchill Downs racetrack in Kentucky consulting with Kentucky Derby race managers and testing the status of the track in the days and hours before the 138th running of the world-famous horse race. Peterson, who is “widely considered the world’s foremost racing surfaces […]
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The Portland Press Herald carried a story about the UMaine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, whose members recently designed and installed a new sewage and wastewater disposal system in a small rural village in Honduras. Students have been volunteering over spring and winter breaks on the project for several years. Contact: George Manlove, (207)581-3756
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Several media outlets covered last Friday’s Maine Wind Blade and Windstorm Challenges, which were held in UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The Bangor Daily News interviewed several students who participated in the challenges, which featured competitions for middle and high school students to design, build, implement and test wind power technology components […]
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