Contact: John Belding, (207) 299-7904; Carl Spang, (617) 510-9295 ORONO — University of Maine researchers in the College of Engineering’s Advanced Manufacturing Center and AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center have successfully designed a composite toe-protection insert for Falcon Performance Footwear, an Auburn shoe company. The new composite component replaces traditional steel toe protection. Falcon […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Thursday aired a report on how the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center is helping Maine businesses with innovative manufacturing projects, including the recent design for a composite safety toe cap for an Auburn company that manufactures boot for firefighters. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center created the composite resin […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.
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Contact: Harlan Onsrud, (207) 581-2175 or onsrud@spatial.maine.edu University of Maine Professor Harlan Onsrud was named a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the organization’s recent spring meeting. Onsrud, a member of the Department of Spatial Information and Science at UMaine, served as president of UCGIS and was instrumental in its […]
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Several news outlets, including Bloomberg Business Week, carried an Associated Press story that noted remarks made Wednesday by Deputy U.S. Interior Secretary David Hayes to the U.S. Senate’s Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday that Maine is place to test new technology being developed for offshore, deepwater wind power, and that the federal government is committed to […]
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a report about research in bio-based plastics, including research being done at UMaine, where scientists are planning to produce a plastic resin called PLA, which stands for poly lactic acid, using wood chips and potato waste. The radio report also included statistics from a 2007 report by UMaine economist Jonathan Rubin, […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a report about Wednesday’s alternative energy conference held at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was one of the speakers. Dagher spoke about UMaine’s research efforts in deepwater offshore wind power.
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The Bangor Daily News is reporting a new bridge on Route 180 in Ellsworth will be constructed with the composite bridge technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The so-called bridge-in-a-backpack will be used for a new bridge over Grey’s Brook.
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Inventor and innovator Doug Hall, the driving force behind UMaine’s innovation engineering program, wrote a Business Week column based on his experiences teaching at UMaine during the fall semester. In the column, titled “The Kids Are All Right,” Hall describes several positive attributes he noted in observing UMaine’s students, including adaptive problems solving skills, passion […]
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March 7, 2011 Contact: John Belding, (207) 299-7904; Mike Wing, (207) 780-5956 UMAINE, USM MANUFACTURING R&D COLLABORATIVE WINS $493,000 TECHNOLOGY GRANT ORONO — The University of Maine and University of Southern Maine are receiving a $493,577 grant from the Maine Technology Institute to advance the research, development and commercialization of private sector manufacturing projects in […]
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