UMaine News

WABI television broadcast a Wednesday news story about Wednesday’s engineering career fair, organized by the UMaine Career Center.  The story includes an interview with Career Center director Patty Counihan.

Several news organizations covered Tuesday’s deepwater offshore wind energy conference in Northport. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center organized the conference as part of the DeepCWind Consortium. UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher, the UMaine center’s director and the driving force behind offshore wind technology development, was interviewed in the news stories developed by WLBZ/WCSH, WABI, […]

The Bangor Daily News on Monday featured a story about the tidal energy testing site at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, where UMaine scientists are conducting environmental studies as part of an assessment of tidal energy locations in Maine.

Libby Mitchell, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, mentioned UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center in a q-and-a interview on freepressonline.com. Mitchell said the center is contributing to job growth in the transportation sector.

The Daily Racing Form ran a story about the removal of the thoroughbred horse racing track surface at Santa Anita Park in California. UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, a race track expert, will test the new surface expected to be installed this fall. ESPN also ran the story.

Contact: Roberta Laverty, 207-581-2110, roberta.laverty@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Maine’s innovative composites bridge technologies are being highlighted during a two-day event Wednesday Oct 13 and  Thursday Oct. 14.  The 2010 Maine Composites Showcase, hosted by MaineDOT and its Maine composites partners, is introducing top bridge engineers from New England and the northeast region to the innovative composites […]

Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told the Bangor Daily News a proposed $5 billion undersea power line proposal aimed at spurring development of a coastal wind farm in the Mid-Atlantic states is a great sign that private investors are interested in offshore wind efforts. Google, along with a group […]

UMaine engineer Mick Peterson was mentioned in an article on the website Bloodhorse about the replacement of the surface of the thoroughbred horse racing track at Santa Anita Park in California. Peterson, the executive director of the Racing Surfaces Laboratory, will test the track’s new surface.