The Foster Center for Student Innovation is where 91±¬ΑΟ students go for all their innovation and business needs. The center, which was built in 2006, was named after 91±¬ΑΟ alumni Bion (\u201968) and Dorain (\u201968) H. Foster, in honor of their generous bequest to the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In April of 2007, the U.S. Green Building Council awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Rating to the Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The building\u2019s architects, Oak Point Associates, also received a citation of excellence in green building from the American School Board Journal, and the center was recognized as one of the top new educational facilities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The building was awarded the AIA Maine\u2019s Merit Award<\/a> for architecture as well as a Citation award from the American Institute of Architects<\/a> (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) for this year\u2019s CAE Educational Facility Design Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Foster Center for Student Innovation is where 91±¬ΑΟ students go for all their innovation and business needs. The center, which was built in 2006, was named after 91±¬ΑΟ alumni Bion (\u201968) and Dorain (\u201968) H. Foster, in honor of their generous bequest to the university. In April of 2007, the U.S. Green Building Council […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"parent":2135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"aforbes","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/author\/aforbes\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2148\/revisions\/2153"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}