The website Reinforced Plastics has a story about a bridge in Boothbay, Maine, which was rebuilt using hybrid-composite beam technology tested at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The Knickerbocker Bridge, developed at Harbor Technologies in Brunswick, is said to be the longest composite vehicular bridge in the world. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine’s research into biofuels and bioplastics was noted in a Mainebiz story about Maine’s clean economy and the high grades the state received recently in a Brookings Institution report. The story mentioned the company Old Town Fuel & Fiber and its work with the UMaine Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering to refine a process […]
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Paul Ferguson, the University of Maine’s president since July 1, will attend the annual summer reunion of UMaine’s Class of 1944 on Wednesday July 27 in Memorial Union.
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UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson was mentioned in a report on the Daily Racing Form website about the reopening of the Santa Anita horse racing track in California. The track’s surface underwent a renovation and Peterson administered the testings of soil samples from the track in an on-site lab. Contact: Jessica […]
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An op-ed piece in the Bangor Daily News about the need for research and development bonds noted the support for research institutions such as UMaine that bonds can provide. The authors noted UMaine research into deepwater offshore wind power and the new building set to open soon that will enable the testing of large-scale wind […]
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The Portland Press Herald had a brief about an award given to WBRC Architects Engineers for the firm’s design for the offshore wind research facility at UMaine. The Maine chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute gave WBRC the Award for Design Excellence. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine’s research into wind power was noted in a Portland Press Herald story about how some municipalities in southern Maine are dealing with regulations on wind turbines in urban locations. The story mentioned that UMaine does monthly analysis on wind speed measurements taken on Peaks Island near Portland. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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In an interview in this week’s edition of Mainebiz, former Maine Gov. Angus King, now a principal in Independence Wind LLC, discusses the future of energy in Maine, the contentiousness of mountaintop wind farm development and, in contrast, the apparent popularity of deepwater offshore wind turbine technology being developed by Habib Dagher, director of the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Portland lawyer Jeffrey A. Thaler has been appointed a UMaine visiting professor of energy law, policy and ethics. He will also serve as a liaison to other UMaine System campuses involved in the new UMaine-based statewide curriculum in renewable energy to be developed by UMaine President Emeritus Robert Kennedy. […]
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Richard Higgins, a 1979 UMaine graduate and retired Boeing executive, has won Tau Beta Pi’s 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award. That engineering honor society will formally recognize Higgins with the award at its October convention in Indianapolis. According to the Tau Beta Pi news release, the award honors Higgins’ “lifetime achievements and commitment to engineering education.” […]
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