The Green Optimist, a website that focuses on alternative energy, carried a Reuters story about UMaine engineer Clay Wheeler’s two-step process for making biofuel from wood. Wheeler said in the story he anticipates the value of biofuel will continue increase as petroleum sources become more scarce. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Prof. Hemant Pendse will give a presentation, “Forest Bioproducts — why now, why in Maine,” at the next Research Cafe, presented by the UMaine Vice President for Research office. The session is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in Fogler Library’s University Club. Pendse is director of UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Institute (FBRI) and […]
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The international Reuters wire service released a story and video about a revolutionary method developed at UMaine to make biofuels from the cellulose in wood fiber. Clay Wheeler, a UMaine chemical engineering professor, developed the unique process along with undergraduates working in his lab. Scientific American ran the report on the front page of its […]
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Eliot Cutler, a Maine businessman and former gubernatorial candidate, will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Maine Chinese Conference on Oct. 28-29, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is one of the host organizations of the event, and Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC […]
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The Free Press, a weekly newspaper that covers midcoast Maine, noted the upcoming free public forum about Maine’s evolving wind energy resource, sponsored by the Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech). The forum will be held Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. UMaine Professor of […]
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The blog for the U.S. Department of Agriculture had an entry about the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s recent visit to UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The visit was organized by USDA Rural Development in order for the Paris-based OECD to review how renewable energy projects are supporting rural economic development in […]
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Some 63 companies that employ engineers will be at UMaine Wednesday, Oct. 19, looking to meet future employees or prospective interns from the College of Engineering.
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The Bangor Daily covered Tuesday’s visit to the UMaine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center by the international Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, which is based in France. The OEDC was visiting to learn more about UMaine’s research into deepwater offshore wind power. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Bangor television station WABI reported on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s visit Tuesday to UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn about the center’s work in the area of deepwater offshore wind energy. Center Director Habib Dagher said in an interview that UMaine and the Paris-based OECD share the same interest […]
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The New England Cable News website is carrying an Associate Press report on Tuesday’s visit to the UMaine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center by the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which promotes economic policies that have a positive social impact. The group will get a tour and briefing on the DeepCwind Consortium, […]
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