UMaine News

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.

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.

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.