The University of Maine has launched Learning With AI, an initiative to help faculty and students adapt to an educational landscape transformed by generative AI like ChatGPT and DALLE. Originally convened by UMaine’s New Media program and the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), the initiative has quickly gathered contributors from across the […]
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In an article about the College of the Atlantic erecting a new dormitory using laminated timber, the Bangor Daily News highlighted cross-laminated timber research being conducted at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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Evan Wujcik, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will deliver a keynote presentation at the 94th New England Complex Fluids (NECF) Workshop, hosted at the University of Rhode Island on March 17, 2023. His talk: “Investigation of Polymer Systems and their Composites for Advanced Functional […]
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Douglas Gardner, professor of forest operations, bioproducts and bioenergy and researcher at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), was recently featured on an episode of Wood Science Talks. The podcast is presented by the International Society of Wood Science and Technology and hosted by Rupert Wimmer. Listen to the Wood Science Talks episode with […]
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Victor Ortega-Jimenez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, presented at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., on March 6. Ortega-Jimenez’s presentation, “Fatal attraction: Electrostatic forces pull jumping nematodes directly to their charged prey,” was with former colleagues at Georgia Tech, Sunny Kumar and Saad Bhamla.
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Rick Eason, associate professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Inside Edition about balloon hobbyists and a weather balloon experiment he conducted along with hobbyist John Garesche with seventh graders in Ohio. The interview is available on Inside Edition’s YouTube channel.
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Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, was awarded a 2023 Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). NAE established the Gilbreth Lectures in 2001 in honor of Lillian Gilbreth, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965. The lectureship recognizes outstanding young American […]
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In an article about the Marine Mammal Commission’s new study showing there is no risk of entanglement for right whales by offshore wind turbines, WGME-TV (Fox 23 in Portland) noted that University of Maine researchers had previously stated that there was no entanglement risk to the right whale because the line for these floating turbines […]
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In reporting on Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ new Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, the Union of Concerned Scientists, WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) and and Offshore Wind noted the University of Maine’s role in designing floating platforms for offshore wind turbines. In launching the plan, Mills spoke from the Maine State House with a model of the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Roberto Lopez-Anido, the Malcolm G. Long ’32 Professor of Civil Engineering, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Maine Professor, the university’s most prestigious faculty award. Lopez-Anido will be honored at an Alumni Achievement Awards and Recognition Ceremony on April 28 at Wells Conference Center.
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