The Portland Press Herald published the article, “Risky choices paying off for UMaine’s wind project,” about the University of Maine-led New England Aqua Ventus I floating offshore wind pilot project. The team, which is led by Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, made calculated gambles on several innovative strategies, including the […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Mainebiz article about companies that make products using renewable biobased resources instead of petroleum-based compounds. Maine’s biobased manufacturing sector is composed of several companies including UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, according to the article, and Biobased Maine has partnered with UMaine in a grant application to the […]
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Read transcript “Growing Maine” is a series of short documentaries by the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension, which highlights Maine food producers and farm families. This episode tells the story of Doreen and John Simmons of Stoneheart Farm in South Paris, sharing the most valuable players of their farm family — Gwen and Bea. Without the […]
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Richard Kersbergen, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor in Waldo County, was profiled in the Modern Farmer magazine article, “Extension agents: The unsung heroes of the agricultural world.” The approximately 14,000 experts who make up the USDA’s Cooperative Extension System work tirelessly to assist farmers and gardeners from coast to coast, yet rarely receive […]
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David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about this year’s crop. “We had a very unusual spring,” Yarborough said. “With the mild winter we didn’t get much frost in the ground. So in April we had very warm temperatures, so the plants took up water. […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Construction Dive article, “Branching out: Why cross-laminated timber is making advances in the US.” With origins 20 years ago in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, a mass timber construction system known as cross-laminated timber (CLT) has grown into a growing $2 billion industry. The U.S. is finally catching […]
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The University of Maine’s Aroostook Farm was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about how Maine potato farmers have wrapped up planting and are hoping for a good year. Farmers, Maine Potato Board members and UMaine researchers also are studying alternative crops for potato growers, according to the article. The UMaine facility in Presque […]
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The Associated Press reported about 250 researchers and industry leaders are expected to attend the second International Conference of Fish & Shellfish Immunology June 26–30 in Portland. The University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute is hosting the event, which organizers said focuses on the health and welfare of wild and farmed aquatic animals. Bassem Allam […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Revolution Research, founded by University of Maine forest resources doctoral candidate Nadir Yildrim, is competing for $100,000 in a pitch contest at the Maine Startup and Create Week conference. Yildirim and vice president Alexander Chasse, a UMaine civil engineering graduate, developed the foam-like material from wood fiber. Other material […]
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Habib Dagher, founding director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and professor of civil and environmental engineering, was featured in Maine magazine’s special issue highlighting dreamers and doers “charting the state’s future.” Last year, Dagher was recognized at the White House as a Transportation Champion of Change for his work on […]
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