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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Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for a Hastest Solutions company news release posted on the San Jose Women’s Business Examiner website. The company said its role in the design, assembly and recent installation of the three-story environmental wind turbine test chamber at UMaine was a […]
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The Hartford Courant has a story about Nick DiTaranto, a UMaine civil engineering major who is spending the summer as an intern in West Hartford, Conn., inspecting sidewalks on a bicycle. DiTaranto is close to completing the 245-mile inspection and has logged more than 700 sidewalk issues in a town database. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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Comments by Jake Ward, assistant vice president for research, economic development and government relations at the University of Maine, were included in a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting story posted on the Bangor Daily News website about a state Department of Environmental Protection decision to allow the Old Town Fuel and Fiber pulp mill […]
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SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, posted a news release from a company that designed, assembled and installed an Environmental Wind Turbine Test Chamber at UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory, which is part of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center on campus. The president of Hastest Solutions, Inc., said in the release he […]
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