UMaine News

Comments from Dean Dana Humphrey of UMaine’s College of Engineering are included in a Thursday Portland Press Herald story about a Wednesday Portland forum on the “technical revolution” and Maine’s economic future.  Humphrey notes that the UMaine college is at record enrollment levels, but it is not able to educate enough engineers to meet the […]

The Bangor Daily News named Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, one of its 11 people to watch in 2011. Dagher has led a $25 million effort to research the future of deepwater offshore wind power, an effort which will include the opening later this year of a wind […]

The website OffshoreWindWire.com has named Maine’s advances in deepwater offshore wind technology one of the top 10 wind power stories of the year. The website said Maine has emerged as a leader in the area, and mentioned UMaine’s involvement in the effort. UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is developing turbines for deepwater offshore floating platforms.

Comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, were included in a Saturday Maine Today Media story about the federal government spending bill defeated in the U.S. Senate last week.  The bill included a $10 million appropriation for ongoing UMaine-led R&D efforts in deepwater offshore wind power technology.

Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted extensively in an article in the Thibodaux Daily Comet of Lafourche Parish, La., about the potential for offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. Dagher said there is a heightened level of interest on the part of the Obama administration in moving […]

An editorial published in the Brunswick-based Times Record newspaper cited UMaine’s involvement in the Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center as an example of job creation in Maine. The center, a public-private collaborative, will be based at the Brunswick Naval Air Station when the Navy closes the base next May. The editorial claims more than […]

The weekly Village Soup newspaper had a report about a deepwater offshore wind energy conference held Tuesday. UMaine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast hosted the conference.

Jake Ward, UMaine assistant vice president for research and economic development, was interviewed for a Tuesday WCSH/WLBZ story about a Belfast conference on deepwater offshore wind energy.  Ward described UMaine’s progress in developing technologies to tap that resource to create clean energy.  UMaine’s Hutchinson Center hosted the forum.