A Bangor Daily News article about an increase in education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) included a note that the Bangor school district, which is seeking to establish a STEM academy, is working with UMaine on several fronts, including the formation of a program that will allow students to enter […]
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In a Bangor Daily News business column, Michael Aube, the president of Eastern Maine Development Corporation in Bangor included as a notable business development in 2011 UMaine’s partnership with Southern Maine Community College to create a pre-engineering program at the former Brunswick Naval Air facility. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Forbes magazine website has a follow-up column to a piece written several weeks ago in which the writer lauded UMaine’s Habib Dagher, the director of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, for his innovative thinking in the plan for a deepwater wind farm in the Gulf of Maine. In the follow-up, the writer […]
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UMaine’s Habib Dagher, the director of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was included in a Bangor Daily News follow-up story to its 11 People to Watch in 2011, which the newspaper released Jan 1, 2011. Dagher, the follow-up said, has seen his plan for an offshore wind farm move closer to reality with […]
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Karen Horton, a University of Maine associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, joined a group from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at a recent event at the White House that recognized local leaders in the effort to recruit and retain girls and women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
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In an op-ed column in the Portland Press Herald, Bill Beardsley, the commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation, said the State of Maine is well-positioned in the area of natural-resource economies thanks in part to research at UMaine. Beardsley cited UMaine research programs that are examining composite wood, liquid fuel, and sugar from trees. […]
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The University of Maine College of Engineering’s Francis Crowe Society recently inducted four new members.
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A column in Forbes magazine cited a recent talk by Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center AEWC, who discussed the groundbreaking research and development of deepwater wind-energy turbines off the coast of Maine being led by UMaine with 35 collaborating companies. Writer Anthony Wing Kosner compares the promise […]
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The University of Maine Office of the Vice President for Research has announced recipients of faculty research awards by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund to support the use of high-end instrumentation.
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University of Maine industrial ecologist and certified Life Cycle Assessment professional Anthony Halog has received a $150,000 federal grant to create a comprehensive new online database to allow researchers, scientists and industrialists to assess ecological, social and economic implications of new and emerging products, starting with wood-based biofuels.
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