News Center Maine, 3D Printing Industry, NewsBreak and the Bangor Daily News reported that a UMaine team is 3D printing a replica of one of the items, the Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet, which will be displayed at the Hudson Museum while the original is sent back to the Tlingit tribe in southern Alaska. UMaine engineers […]
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The Castine Patriot cited a pilot project for a single floating offshore turbine south of Monhegan Island led by the University of Maine’s research program and New England Aqua Ventus. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and may be the first floating offshore wind turbine in the United State. It is […]
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The University of Maine 2022 commencement ceremonies and celebrations for this year’s graduates and members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 will be held May 6–8 in Alfond Sports Arena. The Graduate School commencement will recognize a record number of candidates for advanced degrees on May 6. Sixty doctoral candidates will be hooded, including […]
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The Bangor Daily News and the Penobscot Times shared that Yingchao Yang, assistant professor in the University of Maine Department of Mechanical Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award for his research on asymmetrical fracture of high-entropy two-dimensional nanomaterials. Yang is the fourth member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering to receive the […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2022 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) summer fellowship winners. The CUGR 2022 Summer Research and Creative Activities fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through the Office of the Vice President for […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the 2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Research Fellowship Award recipients. The purpose of the MSGC fellowship and scholarship programs at UMaine is to provide research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students in aerospace technology, space science, Earth science, […]
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The University of Maine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2022 UMaine Student Symposium (UMSS22) award winners. The symposium, held April 15 at the New Balance Field House and Memorial Gym, provides an opportunity for the public to view numerous posters and exhibits of undergraduate and graduate research and scholarly work. More than […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, WGME (Channel 13 in Portland), Spectrum News and News Center Maine featured a report from the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering that said the state needs to make salt reduction a priority in parts of the state that are […]
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Maine PE News Flash, the newsletter of the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers, thanked Dana Humphrey, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine, for his years of leadership and service. It noted: “When Dean Dana Humphrey, Ph.D., P.E. retires later this summer, after serving for 16 years as the […]
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News Center Maine reported that Ali Abedi, University of Maine professor of electrical and computer engineering, provided testimony in support of the bill LD 1923, An Act to Establish the Maine Space Corporation. “While it may sound far off, the space and aerospace economy presents a tremendous opportunity for Maine’s citizens, companies, and communities,” Abedi […]
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