Some UMaine engineering students spent last Saturday in Cape Elizabeth judging the Southern Maine VEX Robotics Competition, according to the South Portland Sentry blog. The UMaine will host the state robotics competition in February at the Bangor Auditorium, the blog posting stated.
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In a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor, UMaine’s Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, advocates for federal research investments he writes have helped the UMaine-based offshore wind technology development program create 250 jobs this year within 25 Maine companies and organizations.
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Correll Chair candidate presentation Monday Dec. 13 Bert Sweetman, a candidate for UMaine’s Correll Presidential Chair in Energy, will present a seminar on Monday Dec. 13. Sweetman, who is currently a Texas A&M faculty member, will discuss “Floating Wind Turbines Sutbject to Large Angular Motions: Dynamic Simulation using the Euler Equations of Motion” at 3:10 […]
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The Wicked Local newspapers in Massachusetts report that Jon Sorenson of Boxford, Mass. was one of four people recently honored with a UMaine Stillwater Society Presidential Award. Sorenson, a 1986 UMaine graduate, was recognized along with Prof. Habib Dagher and UMaine alumni benefactors Russell and Barbara Bodwell. The Stillwater Society honors those who have “made […]
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Mike Bilodeau, director of UMaine’s Process Development Center, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about issues related to a grass pellet fuel R&D project that’s underway in northern Maine. UMaine researchers, including Cooperative Extension experts, are looking at ways to create an energy-producing crop on unused farm land in Aroostook County. The […]
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The website Offshore Wind Wire has an interview with UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher, who answered questions about the progress of the DeepCWind floating turbine project and the type of work which will be done at the UMaine’s offshore wind laboratory, which is currently under construction.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine education commissioner J. Duke Albanese will visit UMaine on Monday Dec. 6, as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Albanese currently serves as senior policy adviser in Maine’s Great Schools Partnership. Albanese will spend the day at UMaine, […]
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A Horse Talk magazine story reports on research headed up by Prof. Mick Peterson of the UMaine mechanical engineering faculty. An expert on race track surfaces, Peterson has studied horse performance on synthetic tracks, which are becoming more common as the industry works to reduce injuries. Peterson’s research shows that horses run slower when temperatures […]
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A front-page Saturday Bangor Daily News story reports on Friday’s visit to UMaine by representatives of a Russian company with broad responsibilities for transportation infrastructure at the 2014 Winter Olympics. They were in Maine to investigate the possibility of using bridge-in-a-backpack technology, developed at UMaine and licensed to an Orono-based company called Advanced Infrastructure […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a story to its website a few hours after Friday’s announcement that a company marketing UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm that could put the carbon-fiber bridges, developed at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, to use during the 2014 Winter Oympics […]
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