WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers is hosting this year’s regional conference April 13–14. About 370 students are expected to participate in the conference, which will include a steel bridge building competition, networking activities and a concrete canoe racing competition in Old Town. Past canoes […]
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University of Maine alumnus and “father of the personal computer” Chuck Peddle will deliver the keynote at “Disruptive Innovation,” a moderated panel discussion April 5 on campus. Peddle, a Bangor native who earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from UMaine in 1959, is best known for his creation of the concept of distributed intelligence […]
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University of Maine graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19, capping a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
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Republican U.S. Sen Susan Collins lauded the University of Maine’s leadership on offshore wind at a March 27 hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development in Washington, D.C. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry responded that Maine Aqua Ventus is “a really important step” and called UMaine an “integral partner” in […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated March 26 Helping Maine businesses explore the benefits of installing combined heat and power systems to reduce energy costs is the focus of a workshop April 3 at the University of Maine at Augusta. The free public workshop will be held 8 a.m.–2:30 p.m. in Jewett Hall, sponsored by the U.S. […]
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Thirty-four University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “We are extremely proud of our world-class faculty who […]
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The Associated Press quoted Dana Humphrey, dean of the University of Maine College of Engineering, in an article about this year’s “muddier and bumpier than most” mud season in New England. An especially rainy and snowy winter contributed to more severe potholes, bumps in the road, and melting snow flowing into rivers and creating mud, […]
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University of Maine student entrepreneurs working out of and with mentors at UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation student incubator have won all three finalist spots in the college competition of “Greenlight Maine,” a business contest television show twice nominated for an Emmy Award. The students will compete live for the grand prize at 4 […]
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Assembly magazine interviewed Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center; and James Anderson, senior R&D program manager at the UMaine Composites Center; for an article about boatbuilding at the center. The UMaine Composites Center is continuing a long-standing tradition of boatbuilding in the state of Maine by using […]
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The inauguration of University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy is March 29, capping a week of events leading to the 10 a.m. ceremony in Hutchins Concert Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. In addition to an address by Ferrini-Mundy, other speakers at the inauguration ceremony are expected to be Gov. Janet Mills and […]
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