Markets Insider, Yahoo! Finance, WABI (Channel 5), Ocean News and Technology, Offshore Energy, Style Magazine and many other outlets highlighted the support provided by the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center in developing Oscilla Power’s prototype wave energy converter, which was recently deployed in Castine Harbor. The ASCC was charged with the structural […]
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KSNT (Channel 27 in Topeka, Kansas) and WIBW (Channel 13 in Topeka, Kansas) reported on a University of Maine-led effort to develop an interactive digital tool that will allow users to explore and analyze data on sites and sources of PFAS contamination throughout the U.S.
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Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, spoke with ProPublica for an article titled “Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.” The Maine Monitor, Maine Public and the Bangor Daily News shared the ProPublica report.
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BioHome3D, the first 100% bio-based 3D-printed home in the world, proves to be a viable solution to the growing housing crisis after one year of outdoor testing. Printed at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), BioHome3D is a 600-square-foot home that was designed to meet Maine State Affordable Housing requirements. It […]
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Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, a professor of clinical nutrition at UMaine’s School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with The New York Times about her research on the benefits of eating berries. Certain compounds in fruits like wild blueberries offer anti-inflammatory benefits and may help reduce cancer’s ability to develop, grow and multiply. Klimis-Zacas recommends eating one-half to […]
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In a story about a 3D-printed tiny house developed at the Woodbury University School of Architecture, Business Insider highlighted the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s BioHome3D, the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials.
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the challenges to offshore wind development, including supply chain issues and upfront costs. “You save money in the long run, and it’s a major opportunity to decarbonize our economy,” Dagher said.
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In an article titled “Innovation in food packaging boosts Maine’s struggling forest industries,” the Portland Press Herald noted that the University of Maine is a partner for Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Tech Hub. CentralMaine.com, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Rome News-Tribune and Aol.com shared the Press Herald report.
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The Bangor Daily News and CentralMaine.com shared that University of Maine researchers are using environmental DNA (eDNA) to study the recovery of river herring in the Penobscot River. eDNA is the genetic material shed by all organisms in the environment, which can be collected and sequenced. With it, UMaine researchers and their colleagues are investigating […]
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News Center Maine interviewed University of Maine computer scientist Torsten Hahmann and Ph.D. student Katria Schwiekert about their efforts to develop an interactive digital tool that will allow users to explore and analyze data on sites and sources of PFAS contamination throughout the U.S. “We don’t want to reproduce all that data. We want to […]
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