Awards and Honors News
September 2022:
- Lab member Kendra Batchelder is interviewed by the University of Maine, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of her PhD and the research conducted in the lab as a whole
- Lab director Andre Khalil is featured in the University of Maine news to discuss the lab’s research
- Our work’s commercialization is highlighted in a MaineBiz article
- Lab member Basel White is featured in a promotional video for the UMaine Research Learning Experience
August 2022:
- Josh Hamilton successfully defended his masters thesis in biomedical engineering, titled “Multiscale Anisotropy Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer.”
July 2022:
- Kendra, Andre, Jeremy, and the rest of their team graduated from the NSF I-Corps program. Their team learned about the breast cancer market and the challenges that can be encountered in the field.
May 2022:
- Andre Khalil received the 2022 Faculty Mentor Impact Award
April 2022:
- Kendra Batchelder received the Impressive Innovator award from the University of Maine Foster Center
March 2022:
- Kendra Batchelder was a contestant on Greenlight Maine College Edition and was unanimously selected to pass through the first round
- Watch the first round here
December 2021:
- Basel White received Highest Honors after defending his honors thesis, titled “Wavelet-based Automatic Breast Segmentation for Mammograms”
- Basel White was awarded an academic year fellowship from The Center for Undergraduate Research, based on his work titled “An Exploratory Analysis on the Measurement of the Hurst Exponent through the Use of the Power Spectrum and 2D WTMM Methodology on Monofractal and Multifractal Images”
- Katherine Jarvis successfully defended her master’s thesis, titled “Stochastic Agent Based Models Represent Dynamic Phenotypes in Biological Systems”
October 2021:
- Kendra Batchelder passed her comprehensive exams and reached her PhD candidacy
- Kendra Batchelder was featured in the month’s “Innovators of UMaine” column where she discussed how her experiences at UMaine are leading to a start-up company focused on early detection of breast cancer
June 2021:
- Jeremy Juybari was awarded the 2021 Graduate Student Government (GSG) Summer Research Fellowship at UMaine
May 2021:
- Cole Butler received the 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Mathematics and Statistics
- Katherine Jarvis won second place for graduate research at the 2021 Maine Biological and and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS)
- Katherine Jarvis received the 2021 Outstanding Master’s Degree Student Award in the College of Natural Science, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Josh Hamilton was an award winner at the 2021 UMaine Student Symposium
- Aidan Greenlee received the 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Physics and Astronomy
Andre Khalil's Faculty Mentor Impact Award
Kendra Batchelder's feature image in the "Innovators of UMaine" column