Channel 5 (WABI) aired coverage Tuesday of the groundbreaking ceremony at UMaine for a Forest and Bioproducts Research Institute addition at Jenness Hall. The 3,300-square-foot addition will give technical staff room to work with visiting researchers and collaborators. It also will include training areas and videoconferencing facilities. Channel 7 (WVII) also covered the event. Contact: […]
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The Weekly newspaper had notices from the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor about programs with UMaine connections. The first, a Space Day open house, was held recently and featured students from UMaine’s College of Engineering who demonstrated wireless robotic sensors. The second took note of the “Connecting Climate to Curriculum” program, which involves scientists in […]
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A Business Week website column about intellectual property noted that UMaine has applied for a patent for the lobster shell golf ball developed by engineer David Neivandt along with student Alex Caddell. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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The website Marine Executive has a report about the wind blade testing currently ongoing at the Marin testing facility in the Netherlands. Faculty and student engineers from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center are testing three types of floating wind turbines in Marin’s wave tank. The findings will help UMaine move forward in its […]
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The Physorg.com science news website Monday carried a report on deepwater offshore wind technology testing being done in the Netherlands by UMaine researchers with a Dutch wind-energy development company. Research with 1/50 scale model wind turbines will lead to development of full-size wind turbines off the coast of Maine. Contact: George Manlove (207) 581-3756
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The University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute (FBRI) will host a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating plans to build a 3,300 square foot addition to UMaine’s Jenness Hall. The event is scheduled for Tuesday May 3 at 1 p.m. at Jenness Hall.
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UMaine Associate Professor Peter Van Walsum of the department of chemical and biological engineering and the Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative was featured in a video on the Mobile Maine News website. The video includes an interview with Van Walsum about his work on converting forest waste products into biofuels. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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University of Maine engineering students and researchers working at a facility in the Netherlands are now into the third week of testing scale models of deepwater floating offshore wind platforms for wind turbines. The team from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is testing 1/50th-scale models at an offshore wind basin owned by a […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Wednesday covered the pill-crushing device competition among six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology students in Barrows Hall. After being rated by professional nurses and engineers for efficiency, ease of use, noise and safety, students in professor Herb Crosby’s class who designed and constructed the devices ground up vitamins and other […]
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The website Physorg.com has a story about five UMaine students who recently participated in a rocket launch in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, who were working under Professor Ali Abedi, developed wireless sensors that could measure the amount of pre-launch vibration in the 27-foot rocket built by students at California State University Long Beach. Contact: […]
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