UMaine News

Contact:  Jessica Bloch at 207-581-3777 Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz called attention in his Wednesday piece to several UMaine projects, including the announcement last week that UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and student Alex Caddell had come up with a golf ball made of crushed lobster shells which is being marketed to the cruise-ship industry, […]

Golf balls made from lobster shells, created by faculty and students in UMaine’s Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in partnership with the Lobster Institute at UMaine, are the subject of widespread news coverage. Prof. David Neivandt was interviewed for a Saturday National Public Radio story.  Other reports on the golf balls, intended for use […]

The Bangor Daily News published a Saturday report on a national award given to UMaine for bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center.  The American Society for Civil Engineering recognized the technology with its annual Pankow Award Thursday in Washington, DC.  UMaine received the recognition along with the Maine Dept. of Transportation […]

MSNBC’s Innovation and Technology website featured an Associated Press story about the biodegradable golf balls, made out of lobster shells, developed by UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate Alex Caddell. The Bangor Daily News also reported on the golf balls, as did Bangor television station WABI.

The Rockland-based weekly newspaper Free Press covered last week one of a series of meetings about UMaine’s efforts to research deepwater offshore wind energy. Presenters at the meeting, which was held in Port Clyde, included Bob Lindyberg of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center which is leading the research effort, and Paul Anderson, the […]

A Sen. Olympia Snowe news release recognizes UMaine and its collaborators for innovation excellence.  Representatives from UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, the Maine Dept. of Transportation, Advanced Infrastructure Technologies and KlienfelderS/ E A Consultants were recognized in Washington, DC with a prestigious award.  The award, from the American Council of Engineering Companies, for Bridge-in-a-backpack […]

The Portland Press Herald and Boston Examiner website both have articles about new UMaine-developed biodegradable golf balls made out of lobster shells. UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate student Alex Caddell provided the research for the golf balls, which are the brainchild of Carin Poeschel Orr, who earned a master’s degree in marine bioresources from […]

The science page on the website of English newspaper Daily Mail is a carrying reports about a biodegradable golf ball made out of lobster shells that was developed at UMaine by bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate Alex Caddell. Wire service UPI also had a story on its website.

Bangor television station WLBZ has a story about a new golf ball made of lobster shells which was developed by UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt. UMaine junior Alex Caddell of Winterport, who also worked on the project, was interviewed along with Neivandt for the story.