Several state and national media outlets had coverage of the news that UMaine has received a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration to advance offshore wind-power research and development. The Forbes and Bloomberg Business Week websites both carried an Associated Press version of the story, as did Bangor television station WABI. Contact: Jessica […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will lead off the first in a series of interdisciplinary research workshops of the 2011-2012 academic year on Friday, Sept. 9 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union.
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News provided coverage of Thursday’s visit to UMaine by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Accompanied by Sen. Susan Collins and Ken Fletcher, director of Maine’s Office of Energy Security, Salazar visited the Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn more about UMaine-led work toward developing technology for deepwater offshore wind power. […]
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Prof. Emeritus Richard Hill provided comment for a WLBZ/WCSH televison story about natural gas as a home heating option. Bangor Gas is reporting that it expects to add 1,000 more customers during this year. Hill cautions that market considerations “may drive up the price of natural gas.”
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The website Crazy Engineer has a story about a $1.2 million Department of Energy grant awarded to UMaine professors Robert Lad and Mauricio Pereira da Cunha to develop sensors that can continuously monitor power plants, with the ultimate goal of zero-emission fossil fuel plants. Business Week also ran an Associated Press report about the grant […]
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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will visit UMaine on Thursday Aug. 18, one of several stops that day to be hosted by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Salazar will visit the Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn more about UMaine-led research into technology development for deepwater offshore wind power initiatives. A brief Associated Press […]
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The University of Maine’s Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) has received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop new high temperature sensor technology for reducing emissions and increasing the efficiency of fossil fuel energy plant operations.
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Several media outlets covered the news that UMaine has received a $1.2 million grant to improve sensors that could help cut carbon dioxide emissions and energy costs. The Bangor Daily News interviewed Robert Lad, a UMaine professor of physics who works on the sensors with fellow engineering professor Mauricio Pereira da Cunha. The Central Maine […]
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The website Maine Insights carried a release from UMaine about work done at UMaine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center on an electronic tuning fork. AMC students and staff worked with a local podiatrist to develop the tuning fork, which is commonly used by physicians to diagnose early signs of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, or damaged or deteriorating nerves […]
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In a story about the growth of cleantech initiatives in Maine, the website Mass High Tech noted that UMaine is on the cutting edge of offshore wind power thanks to the efforts of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which is testing composite blades for offshore wind turbines. The story mentioned the testing UMaine […]
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