UMaine News

Seacoast Online, a website of newspapers covering southern Maine and northern New Hampshire, had a story about York, Maine company Rohrer Technologies Inc., which received in February a $25,000 Maine Technology Institute grant to work with UMaine’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company and UMaine will conduct advanced computer simulations that will help fine-tune the […]

In an article on The Hill website about Karen Mills, a Maine native who is the head of the federal Small Business Association and now a member of President Obama’s Cabinet, recounted a tough task in 2007 of bringing together boat builders with composites materials manufacturers and researchers at UMaine. Mills, who was the 2009 […]

University and government officials from Japan were in Orono this week to sign a research agreement between the University of Maine’s Maine Tidal Power Initiative and the North Japan Research Institute for Sustainable Energy of Hirosaki University.

PopSci, the website of Popular Science magazine, has published a feature article about University of Maine wind-power propellers being designed, built and tested at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The article notes that UMaine’s 37,000-square foot Offshore Wind Laboratory is one of two facilities in the U.S. that stress-test full-size blades, and the only […]

Channel 7 (WVII) on Tuesday covered a visit by Maine’s U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud to UMaine. Michaud toured the Advanced Structures and Composites Center and had lunch with student leaders in the Memorial Union. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

A report about a project that includes UMaine research into home energy savings was noted in a Portland Regional Chamber report on the Bangor Daily News website. The project involves Nathan Weise, a UMaine professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a team of students who will collaborate with the Blue Hill-based company PowerWise to […]

The Bangor Daily News has a report on a project for which Nathan Weise, a UMaine professor of electrical and computer engineering, and a team of students will collaborate with the Blue Hill-based company PowerWise to allow 50 households in the Blue Hill area to track their energy use in both real time and over […]

The website Nanowerk, which focuses on nanotechnology issues, has a report on the robotic Venus flytrap created by Mohsen Shahinpoor, Richard C. Hill Professor and chair of UMaine’s mechanical engineering department. The robotic Venus flytrap has with nanosensors and a thin, pliable metal composite material that he invented as part of his ongoing artificial muscle […]