Habib Dagher, executive director for the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, spoke with News Center Maine about the floating offshore wind technology demonstration project his center is developing with New England Aqua Ventus LLC. “If we harness just 3% of the offshore wind resource in the Gulf of Maine, we can heat […]
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A Forbes op-ed about the evolution of public relations cited a University of Maine study that identified culture as a stronger driver of human evolution than genetics. Scientists Tim Waring and Zach Wood concluded in their investigation that humans are experiencing a “special evolutionary transition” in which the importance of culture, such as learned knowledge, […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, NOAA Fisheries and the University of Maine have initiated a unique partnership to better understand how U.S. fishermen market their catch. The partnership will increase understanding of the scope and scale of local and regional seafood marketing practices nationwide, and help remove barriers to direct marketing for the commercial fishing […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Elizabeth Allan about hazing in high school for a story about an incident involving the Brunswick High School football team. “Every school — those that have had hazing take place and those that haven’t yet — they should be ensuring that they’re providing information and opportunities for the students and […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is the inaugural recipient of the 2021 Academic Pioneer Award from the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). Dagher and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center team were honored in person at ACMA’s Membership Awards Ceremony and Reception on Oct. 18 in […]
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Researchers have made a significant advance in surface science, introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption based on rotaxane molecules with pumping cassettes attached on a surface, according to a new study in the journal Science. University of Maine professor R. Dean Astumian, a theorist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is an author […]
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Spectrum News reported on a report from the Margaret Chase Policy Center at the University of Maine about the impact of Maine’s forest products industry. According to the report, as cited in the Spectrum news story, the industry yielded “more than $8 billion in economic impacts and nearly 32,000 associated jobs in 2019.” The state […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WVII (Channel 7 in Bangor) reported on the more than $57 million in the Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations bills from the Senate Appropriations Committee earmarked for the University of Maine and University of Maine System. Included in the bill is $35 million in funding for the Factory of the Future, […]
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NPR featured Greg LeClair on the program “All Things Considered.” The University of Maine master’s student of ecology and environmental sciences discussed his passion for studying amphibians. He also spoke about a recent study he led, through which he and his colleagues discovered that fewer frogs died from vehicle collisions in spring 2020, when the […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted an effort led by Liping Yu, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Maine, to design a new class of materials capable of improving solar cells, lasers and other optoelectronic devices that convert light into energy. Robert Lad, a professor of physics at UMaine, and Feng Yan, an […]
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