UMaine News

UMaine researchers were among a group meeting this week to promote the research and development of environmentally safe and sustainable plastics, according to a report from Portland television station WGME. The Sustainable Bioplastics Council of Maine is consortium of manufacturers, agricultural groups, nonprofit organizations and university researchers, and is meeting Friday in Falmouth.

Downeast Magazine has in its March issue a profile of UMaine engineer Habib Dagher, the director of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The profile discusses the development of the center at UMaine, the role the center is playing in the future of offshore wind development, and how Dagher’s undergraduate and graduate work led […]

The website Azorobotics.com has an item about the work UMaine’s Ashish Deshpande is doing to develop an advanced robotic prosthetic hand. Deshpande, a mechanical engineering professor, recently won a $512,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research.

Mainebiz has a report about a patent awarded to UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The center has invented a method to strengthen glulam wood beams, something researchers have been studying for five years. The center’s method involves the application of a strip of fiberglass, which increases by 38 percent the strength of beams […]

Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, reported on new technology for strengthening wood glulam beams for which UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center was recently awarded a patent. AEWC Director Habib Dagher and Professor Mac Gray were interviewed by the BDN and Bangor television station WABI included comments from UMaine graduate student […]

WLBZ reported on the Tuesday’s Nano Expo, which took place on the UMaine campus. The event, which drew more than 200 students and teachers from three area middle schools, is part of UMaine’s “Making Stuff” collaboration with Boston public television station WGBH, the Challenger Learning Center and the Maine Discovery Museum, and introduces students to […]

Comments from retired UMaine mechanical engineering professor Dick Hill are included in an extensive Lewiston Sun Journal story about issues related to home heating oil use and Maine’s economy.  Hill points out that “social adjustments” are part of the solution, noting that Americans have more residential space per person than people who live in other […]

Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a front-page story about UMaine Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) project involving the development of wireless sensor technology for use in the jet engine maintenance industry and with particular relevance for military applications.  The sensors are built to allow technicians to monitor the condition of engines and their […]