Business Insider featured the Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s (ASCC) BioHome 3D and spoke to Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the ASCC. “Our number one priority is to alleviate the societal problems [like housing and sustainable construction] we are facing right now … .[It’s not] just the engineering of the home but the livability […]
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CNN interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, and Anthony Viselli, manager of offshore model testing and structural design at the facility, about floating offshore wind research being conducted at UMaine. “You’re working on technology that can have huge societal effects and job creation. It’s just […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) and WFVX-TV (ABC 7/Fox 22 in Bangor) featured the 2023 Simmons Windstorm Challenge, which brought roughly 600 middle and high school students from across the state to the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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The Bangor Daily News noted that the Maine Department of Transportation may use GBeams, which were developed by Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in cooperation with the University of Maine, to repair the Llewellyn G. Estes Memorial Bridge.
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A recent episode of PBS NOVA featured floating offshore wind research being conducted at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “Within 50 miles of the U.S. coast — both east and west coast — there’s enough offshore wind capacity, theoretically, to power the country four times over,” said Habib Dagher, founding executive […]
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The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s Habib Dagher will be featured on PBS NOVA’s latest episode, “Chasing Carbon Zero: Here’s how the U.S. could reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,” highlighting UMaine’s global leadership in floating offshore wind. The episode airs at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26. The PBS NOVA episode […]
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In a story about wind energy in Maine, the Ellsworth American quoted Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), as saying “The only option for Maine for offshore wind is floating turbines,” in a 2021 webinar outlining the VolturnUS project. The Mount Desert Islander shared the […]
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Maine Impact Week, which celebrates the University of Maine faculty, students, community and their contributions to the social and economic advancement of the state and beyond, will be held from April 10–16. Over 20 in person and virtual events will occur throughout the week, all of which highlight the impact of research and creative work […]
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In an article about the College of the Atlantic erecting a new dormitory using laminated timber, the Bangor Daily News highlighted cross-laminated timber research being conducted at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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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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