The bill on its way to the President’s desk includes $53 million in one-time federal funding, known as earmarks, for investments in the university that will directly benefit Maine Thanks to the leadership of Maine’s congressional delegation, the omnibus spending bill passed today includes $53 million in one-time investments in infrastructure and initiatives that will […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Paper Advance shared a profile of Liza White, a University of Maine Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering investigating new uses for these paper mill products, which may open new markets and support places like her hometown of Rumford. “It’s nice to be able to explore using paper in different ways […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) noted that the University of Maine has received several million dollars for “high-performance computing enabled large-scale advanced manufacturing” programs through the Senate’s passage of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
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In an article about the cost of PFAS, the Maine Monitor noted that the University of Maine is conducting research on means to destroy PFAS in used filters. The article also cited a University of Maine survey completed last spring of 432 residents statewide, part of research to be published in Maine Policy Review, which […]
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Season seven of “The Maine Question” podcast covered a broad variety of subjects in research and higher education. Topics ranged from archaeology to space research, and from the challenges in K–12 education to toxic forever chemicals and efforts to mitigate them. In the tenth and final episode this season, host Ron Lisnet looks back on […]
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News Center Maine reported that researchers at the University of Maine are studying new applications for paper mill products. Liza White, UMaine biomedical engineering graduate student and Rumford native, and Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UMaine, are studying paper products manufactured by Sappi North America, which operates mills in Westbrook and Skowhegan. […]
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Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, spoke to the Bangor Daily News about the presence of “forever chemicals” in Teflon plumber’s tape, which is used to fill the spaces between interlocking pipe threads to seal the pipes and prevent leaks. The tape is made with a likely […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke to Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about PFAS in Penobscot County drinking water. Though most water districts in Penobscot County are not finding “forever chemicals” in their drinking water supplies, laboratories can’t entirely rule out their presence. MacRae said many things […]
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The San Diego Union-Tribune interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Laboratory, about the challenges of developing offshore wind in California. “You’re looking at some places where you’re in 2,000 or 3,000 feet of water. The East Coast leases off New York were less than 150 feet […]
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Hey SoCal noted that Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), presented at the California Climate Emergency and Energy Security Summit, hosted by the California Energy Commission in Sacramento, about floating wind turbines. Dagher said that California needs a statewide plan to facilitate offshore wind while […]
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