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., […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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.
Read more
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. […]
Read more