Engineering

Spaghetti Bridge Breaking Competition at UMaine

Contact: Victoria Blanchette, 581-2204; Eric Landis, 581-2170 ORONO, Maine – Students from Monmouth Academy will put spaghetti noodles — Delverde perciatelli #6, to be precise — to the test during the seventh annual Spaghetti Bridge Breaking Competition at the University of Maine. The event will be held on Tuesday, June 2 in Boardman Hall, room […]

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UMaine’s Francis Crowe Society Announces New Inductees

Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Victoria Blanchette, (207) 581-2204 ORONO, Maine – Eight engineering professionals recently were inducted into the University of Maine College of Engineering Francis Crowe Society for their outstanding contributions to the engineering industry. Each year, members of UMaine’s engineering programs are invited to nominate an individual who has made distinguished contributions […]

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Engineering Society Names Fellow, Makes Scholarship Awards

Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Benjamin Gordon Freedman of Caribou has been awarded a 2009-2010 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the world’s largest engineering honor society. Freedman, the son of Dale Gordon of Caribou and Jon Freedman of Bangor, will pursue a doctoral program in bioprocess engineering at Virginia Tech, focusing on the […]

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Two UMaine Students Receive Prestigious Udall Scholarships

Contact: Kristen Andresen, 581-3742 We humbly apologize, but the original version of this release contained an error.  Laura Wood’s hometown is Scarborough, not South Portland. ORONO — Two University of Maine students have received theM orris K. Udall Scholarship. Established in 1992 to commemorate Udall’s 30 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives, […]

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