News Center Maine spoke with Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, and former engineering students Cody Sheltra and Anthony Diba about the patented technology developed at UMaine and used in refurbishing the Grist Mill Bridge in Hampden. Diba is a design engineer at AIT Bridges in […]
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A Sun Journal column by Elliott Epstein noted that sustainability initiatives, such as those supported by the University of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, represent business opportunities for Maine.
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The University of Maine 2021 Virtual Commencement presentations will be available on the UMaine commencement website on May 22. The videos for students in the Graduate School, and undergraduates in the colleges and Maine Business School feature elements of our traditional in-person commencement ceremony, including messages from campus leadership, speakers, music and recordings of the […]
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The Associated Press, Mainebiz, Q106.5 FM, CleanLink, WVII (Channel 7) and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported that William DeSisto, a University of Maine professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, has received more than $370,000 from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to continue development of an environmentally friendly disinfectant that kills SARS-CoV-2. The Bangor Daily News, the Portland Press Herald, WGME (Channel 13 […]
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Mainebiz and 3D Printing Industry reported on Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, testifying during the Congressional hearing titled Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Resiliency, Part I: Protecting Our Nation’s Transportation Systems. Dagher spoke before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) and Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), at the University of Maine, testified on May 13 during the Congressional hearing titled Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Resiliency, Part I: Protecting Our Nation’s Transportation Systems. Dagher spoke before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban […]
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The Associated Press, Plastics Today, Recycling Today, the Sun Journal and News Center Maine cited a University of Maine research initiative to develop bio-based packaging from sustainably harvested Maine wood in reporting on Poland Spring’s new “One-for-One Promise” campaign.
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In the spring of 2020, University of Maine professor of chemical and biomedical engineering William DeSisto, like a lot of people, thought more about disinfectant than he ever had previously. And not just about disinfectant itself, but also about where it comes from. When hospitals were facing urgent shortages of hand sanitizer early in the […]
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The University of Maine will honor the achievements of the more than 2,000 UMaine students receiving degrees in 2021 with a virtual 218th Commencement presentation, highlighted by video of students’ in-person stage walks, congratulatory remarks by valedictorian Bailey West and a keynote by Dr. Edison Liu, president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory. Alumna Melissa […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed University of Maine mechanical engineering technology student Peter Berube in reporting on the donation of a 3D-printed scale model of the Mars rover to the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor. UMaine students developed and assembled the model as part of their capstone project. Berube noted that this is one of the […]
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