WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported on University of Maine alumnus and Dielectric President Keith Pelletier receiving the Edward T. Bryand Distinguished Engineering Award from the Maine College of Engineering and Computing.
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In Maine, lane departure crashes, such as running off the road or head-on collisions, are the most prevalent source of road fatalities, accounting for nearly 70% of roadway deaths. A new study from the University of Maine shows how rural roads, deteriorating infrastructure, an aging population and cold weather can be a deadly combination for […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about the impact of Monday’s fire at Juniper Ridge Landfill. MacRae said that during an uncontrolled burn, contaminants such as carbon dioxide, particulate matter and dioxins are released into the air. “It depends on how much […]
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The Sappi North America 2022 Sustainability Report noted the company’s collaboration with Caitlin Howell, associate professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, to study the use of Sappi’s texturing technology to build mass-manufactured, low-cost microfluidics that also have a low environmental impact. 3BL Media shared the report, and the Greenville Advocate, […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared that Onur Apul, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, will lead an online presentation titled, “PFAS in Maine” in a webinar hosted by Merryspring Nature Center at noon on Tuesday, May 23.
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Creating new, more accurate methods for quantifying the stress and flow rate experienced by deforming rocks at the boundaries of moving tectonic plates is the goal of a University of Maine study funded with a $392,372 National Science Foundation grant. Scott Johnson, a professor of structural geology, and Senthil Vel, a professor of mechanical engineering, […]
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Phys.org shared that a University of Maine-led team of researchers developed a new type of model for predicting whether any given kind of microplastic would adsorb any specific type of PFAS and at what concentration.
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) and WFVX-TV (ABC 7/Fox 22 in Bangor) featured the 2023 Simmons Windstorm Challenge, which brought roughly 600 middle and high school students from across the state to the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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The Bangor Daily News noted that the Maine Department of Transportation may use GBeams, which were developed by Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in cooperation with the University of Maine, to repair the Llewellyn G. Estes Memorial Bridge.
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine has awarded summer fellowships to nine graduate students to support their research in health science and biomedicine. The fellowships, which include up to $6,000 for a stipend, one graduate credit and health insurance, will allow graduate students to conduct their research full time during the summer months alongside […]
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