UMaine News

Several news outlets, including the Portland Press Herald covered the announcement that the Southern Maine Community College campuses in South Portland and Brunswick will begin this fall to offer a pre-engineering program, part of a collaboration with UMaine that allows students to continue on and receive bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The Bangor Daily News ran […]

The Village Soup website reported a Superior Court judge rejected arguments by an environmental activist that the state had failed to meet laws and guidelines in its selection of a site off Monhegan Island for a demonstration wind power project, in which UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center is involved. The UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium […]

A Mainebiz article about the future prospects of Old Town Fuel & Fiber included several references to biofuels research being performed by UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative. FBRI’s work several years ago on cellulosic ethanol was mentioned, as was more recent research into biobutanol, which could be a $5 billion industry, according to the story. […]

The website Smartmeters has an item about last week’s Haskell/IEEE Energy Conference, which was held at UMaine and included representatives from UMaine who discussed the benefits, opportunities and challenges of the smart grid and energy conservation. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

Comments from Prof. Mohamed Musavi of UMaine’s electrical and computer  engineering faculty were included in a Bangor Daily News report on Friday’s Haskell Energy Conference, hosted by UMaine at Wells Conference Center.  Some 150 people attended the conference, which focused on “smart grid” issues and energy consumption.

Portland television station WCSH reported on a new composite bridge in Boothbay, noting UMaine’s contributions. The composite beams for the Knickerbocker Bridge, which at 540 feet is the largest composite bridge in the world, were tested at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

The website Renewable Energy World has a story about the efforts of the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium, which is seeking to develop floating offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. The story mentioned the recent EnergyOcean International 2011 conference, where Department of Energy Offshore Wind Manager Christopher Hart expressed enthusiasm for the consortium. The story […]

Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was mentioned in a Seacoast Online article. The story noted a forum held Monday night in Portsmouth by the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, where Dagher spoke about Maine’s advances in deepwater offshore wind energy. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777

The Bangor Daily News ran a story about the announcement of the hiring of Krish Thiagarajan, a University of Western Australia professor who will be UMaine’s first Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy. Thiagarajan, who is expected to arrive on the UMaine campus in August, is an expert in the design […]