University of Maine School of Economics professor Gary Hunt explained some of the factors affecting rising gasoline prices in Maine, which are higher than the national average, in a Monday interview with Channel 2 (WLBZ). Hunt, also a cooperating faculty member with the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, suggests that reducing demand for combustible […]
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Brazilian student Lucas Ramos is studying chemical engineering at the University of Maine courtesy of Science Without Borders, a program funded by the Brazilian government and aimed at advancing that country’s economic standing and technological expertise. The program eventually will place 100,000 promising students at participating colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, covering […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the news that UMaine’s aerospace engineering concentration has produced its first graduate. Richard McGrath of Westport Island said he took the required three classes after he was laid off from Bath Iron Works. Adjunct professor David Rubenstein, who teaches aeronautics, astronautics, flight dynamics, modeling and control of aircraft and […]
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OLD TOWN – There is Planet Earth, which, for the sake of the discussion taking place in Ed Lindsey’s 9th-grade science class at Old Town High School, is a spherical object made of rock, watery on its surface and wrapped in a layer of air. And there is the mysterious Planet Z, identical to Earth […]
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In a story on the Portland Press Herald website, Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told an audience in Augusta that the state’s economy could grow by 15,000 jobs in the next 20 years if Mainers embrace offshore wind projects. The Boston Globe website also ran a version of the […]
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will be a guest during the 3 p.m. hour Friday on the National Public Radio “Science Friday” show. Dagher will discuss the potential of deepwater floating turbines. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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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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