The Bangor Daily News spoke with Jason Harkins, associate dean of the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, and Renee Kelly, an assistant vice president for innovation and economic development at UMaine, in reporting on small local businesses and start-up companies that have benefitted from partnerships with the University of Maine. Two such […]
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Engineering News-Record New England reported that the construction of the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center is moving forward in spite of rising prices and material and labor shortages. The new engineering center, which will house the biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering programs, is on track for completion in 2022.
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John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), will highlight opportunities for Maine manufacturers to tap into the services available at the university’s Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM) in an informational webinar scheduled for 10 a.m. June 16. CAMM is focused on the 3D-printing process that turns digital designs […]
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News-Medical.net shared a University of Maine news release highlighting a study by Caitlin Howell focused on reducing infections with novel liquid catheter coatings. Howell, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UMaine, is a co-principal investigator on the study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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A novel liquid surface coating on human catheters could help reduce protein deposition that leads to urinary tract and bloodstream infections, according to researchers at the University of Maine and University of Notre Dame who are leading a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The research, funded by a five-year, upward of $2 […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and the Bangor Daily News cited a donation of equipment from the University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) to the Waldo County Technical Center (WCTC) welding trades program. John Belding, director of UMaine’s AMC, donated a Computerized Numerical Control plasma table with a plasma cutter power unit which will help WCTC students prepare […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared a University of Maine news release about researchers from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions helping identify sources of and management strategies for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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Q106.5 FM reported that the University of Maine holds the record for the largest solid 3D-printed item. The boat, 3Dirigo, was printed at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center in 2019 using what was at that time the largest prototype polymer 3D printer.
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SciTechDaily and Phys.org reported on a study co-authored by Yingchao Yang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Maine, that revealed the unexpected strength of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Yang was a collaborator on the study conducted at Rice University and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore prior to his […]
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Researchers from the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will help identify sources of and management strategies for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In response to concerns raised by many different stakeholders, the interdisciplinary team of Mitchell Center scientists is gathering and documenting knowledge of where PFAS are […]
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