A Bangor Daily News report on Thursday night’s Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce dinner noted UMaine’s Habib Dagher, the director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was named the winner of the Catherine Lebowitz Award for Public Service. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Mainebiz website has an item (http://www.mainebiz.biz/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120119/NEWS0101/120119947) about the news that UMaine is part of a consortium of New England schools that will receive a grant for transportation research. The research is part of a nationwide, $77 million federal effort for research to promote transportation safety and efficiency. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The website Offshore Wind Wire included UMaine’s work in the area of offshore deepwater wind energy in the Gulf of Maine as a story to watch in 2012. The story noted the contributions of Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the leader of the DeepCwind Consortium. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Registration is now open for the DeepCwind Consortium’s Windstorm Challenge 2012 and 4thAnnual Maine Wind Blade Challenge, which are competitions for middle school and high school students to design, build, implement and test wind power technology components similar to those being used in an extensive UMaine research program in deepwater offshore wind power.
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Former professor and chair of the University of Maine Department of Physics Paul R. Camp died Jan. 9 at the Maine Veterans Home. He was 92. Camp taught and conducted research at UMaine from 1967 until 1996. A 1941 Wesleyan University graduate, the Connecticut native joined scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., […]
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Biofuel research being done by UMaine engineers and researchers was noted in a story in the Bangor Daily News about the Old Town Fuel & Fiber mill in Old Town. The story, which focused on pollution issues at the facility, said UMaine, which is in the forefront of research on how to distill fuels from […]
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A Bangor Daily News story about a local company that is making paddles for L.L. Bean’s centennial noted that a UMaine professor helped Shaw & Tenney of Orono identify a piece of wood. The professor, who is not named in the story, told the company the wood, which was pulled from a lake, will be […]
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The German version of Technology Review magazine, published in several languages by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has published an article about UMaine mechanical engineering professor Mohsen Shahinpoor and his robotics research. The article features Shahinpoor’s robotic duplicate of a Venus flytrap plant, constructed from composite materials with sensitive hairs that behave like artificial muscle. Shahinpoor […]
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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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