Prof. Emeritus Albert Co of the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at The University of Maine has been elected as a fellow of The Society of Rheology and will be inducted at the SoR Austin Meeting in October 2024. For the list of 2024 SoR Fellows and details, see SoR 2024 Fellows.
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Evan Wujcik, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering with a joint appointment in the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) at the University of Maine, was named one of the Best Rising Stars of Science in 2023 by Research.com, the number one online research portal for scientists. The list, now in its second […]
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine announced that it is hosting the second annual Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering from Oct. 25–27. Events will take place at a variety of locations on the university’s flagship campus in Orono. Partner organizations participating in the symposium include The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), MDI Biological […]
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WE’RE HIRING!!! Link to application: https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=82455&job=chair-of-chemical-and-biomedical-engineering The Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE) at the University of Maine (UMaine), the flagship R1 campus of the University of Maine System, invites applications for the position of Department Chair. The CBE department (http://www.umaine.edu/chb/) has 15 faculty, two administrative support staff, and two technical support professionals, with […]
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News Center Maine – The Maine College of Engineering and Computing brings resources and capacity to help increase engineering enrollment [Read the full story here]
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UMaine launches Maine College of Engineering and Computing Assoc. Prof. Karissa Tilbury and UMaine Salutatorian Zoe Vittum of UMaine’s CBE program are featured. [Read the story here]
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Biomedical Engineering major Zoe Vittum of Brewer, Maine is named UMaine 2023 Salutatorian! Vittum, who minors in bioinstrumentation and neuroscience, is a UMaine Presidential Scholar, and a 2022–23 Helen Louise Stinchfield ’18 Memorial Scholar and Tau Beta Pi Scholar. Her numerous academic and research awards include two National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) […]
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University of Maine research in partnership with Sappi North America has received a $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation to explore how existing mass produced technologies can be used to study and scale up microfluidic technology. [Read more here]
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Theophile Nkulikiyinka of Kigali, Rwanda is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering. Nkulikiyinka, a biomedical engineering student, is a Presidential Scholar and the recipient of the International Presidential Scholarship. He has been an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of professor Michael Mason, evaluating the potential of cellulose nanofiber as a biomaterial […]
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Congratulations, Karissa! Link to UMaine Announcement: https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2023/03/28/thirty-one-faculty-members-receive-tenure-and-or-promotion/
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Over spring break, Prof. Evan K. Wujcik and the MEAN Lab graduate members [PhD Candidate Colton Duprey, PhD Researcher Arya Ajeev, and PhD Researcher Behrokh Shams] attended the 94th New England Complex Fluids Meeting, hosted by the University of Rhode Island, where Prof. Wujcik delivered an invited talk and two MEAN Lab members [Colton and […]
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A new MEAN Lab (PI: Wujcik) publication entitled “Synthesis of heterogeneous metal organic Framework-Graphene oxide nanocomposite membranes for water treatment” was published in Chemical Engineering Journal…[Read it here]
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A new article came out of the MEAN Lab (PI: Wujcik) in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science entitled “Point-of-need quantitative detection of trihalomethanes in environmental water samples using a highly sensitive and selective fiber-based preconcentration system” ….check it out here!
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