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The Research Impact Challenge – Back by Popular Demand for Maine Impact Week (Online)

Online

Join Fogler Library April 10–14 for the Research Impact Challenge! Each day for 5 days, you will receive an email with brief tasks designed to build and curate your scholarly profile, measure the impact of your research, and promote your work to reach new audiences. RSVP to join us. You can participate from the comfort of your home, office, or […]

UMaine Student Symposium 2023

Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Road, Orono

At the University of Maine, students inspire creativity and leadership in the discovery of new knowledge that makes a direct difference to the people of Maine. UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research, the Graduate Student Government, and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School present the annual UMaine Student […]

Free

Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Tour

Innovative Media Research and Commercialization University of Maine, IMRC Center 101 Stewart Commons, Orono

The Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center is a hub for interdisciplinary research activity and creative expression, featuring classrooms outfitted for audiovisual design, app development, digital art creation, and hybrid virtual instruction, in addition to a flexible-use presentation and performance space and three maker labs accessible to both campus and external users.  Visitors can sign […]

2023 Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit

Virtual

This virtual summit is free and open to the public. Please register by April 1, 2023. Zoom connection information will follow. The Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit is Maine’s major food waste event that brings together our state’s key food system participants—farms, food businesses, feeding partners, community leadership, government and nonprofit organizations—to focus on ending […]

Free

VEMI Laboratory Tour

VEMI Lab Carnegie Hall, Orono

A VEMI lab tour presents visitors with the latest in human technology interfaces focusing on inclusive and bio-inspired technologies. Each demonstration shows the latest research in autonomous vehicles, spatial navigation, human computer interaction, blind and visually impaired (BVI) assistance, virtual/augmented reality, and bioengineered containment detection. Your group will experience virtual worlds and autonomous driving simulations, […]

Hackerspace Tour

Memorial Union 144 University of Maine, Orono

The UMaine Hackerspace is a place for UMaine community members to explore technologies that are ever expanding into our daily lives. Come learn how 3D printing is changing the way we design, shop, and interact. See how the internet of things is making appliances around us smarter. Get a taste of Raspberry Pi and see […]

BioHome3D (Bio-based home) Tour

Advanced Structures & Composites Center 35 Flagstaff Road, Orono

The Advanced Structures & Composites Center is hosting facility tours on April 14, 2023, including tours of BioHome3D. BioHome3D is the first 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based, recyclable materials. It is designed to address labor shortages and supply chain issues that are driving high costs and constricting the supply of affordable housing. Tour of […]

Technology Research Center (TRC) Tour

Technology Research Center 880 Main Street, Old Town

The Technology Research Center (TRC) is a 40,000-square-foot facility on the grounds of ND Paper in Old Town, Maine. Dedicated to validation, demonstration, and commercialization support for bioproduct development, the center is a one-stop shop for processing and analysis of technologies at an industrially relevant scale. The TRC is located at 880 Main Street, Old […]

Wheatland Geospatial Lab Tour

School of Forest Resources 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono

The Wheatland Laboratory features a convertible lab that can be configured as one large lab with 24 workstations, or as two labs with 12 workstations each by lowering the motorized Skyfold wall. Sustainably and profitably managing forestlands requires that forest managers monitor and predict changes in a wide variety of factors across forested landscapes over […]

Climate Change Institute Tour

Sawyer Environmental Research Center Sawyer, Orono

Tour the Climate Change Institute Facilities! Tours will be conducted by graduate students currently working in the Institute. The Climate Change Institute houses over 15 laboratories, including labs studying the ecological prehistory of terrestrial and aquatic environments, archeology, ice sheets and cores, and more. See a full list on their website. Tours will start at […]

Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) Tour

Advanced Structures & Composites Center 35 Flagstaff Road, Orono

The Advanced Structures and Composites Center is hosting tours on April 14 from 1-4 pm of their state-of-the-art labs. Check out what our graduate and undergraduate students are working on. Register here. Space is limited, the tours are offered at 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm. Also, tour the BioHome3D at 12:30 pm. Register […]

Process Development Center (PDC) Tour

Process Development Center 5737 Jenness Hall, Orono

The Process Development Center (PDC) offers a broad range of technical services and resources for our clients, both in traditional pulp and paper and in emerging process technologies and materials science. The PDC is one of the top suppliers of cellulose nanomaterials in the world, providing nanomaterials to researchers and application developers at hundreds of […]

2023 IEEE Student Paper Contest

Opportunity to win CASH prizes: Best papers get a chance to attend IEEE/MIT Undergraduate Research and Technology Conference. Authors may submit original content in the form of a technical paper. Top three (3) papers will receive a complimentary registration to attend IEEE/MIT Undergraduate Research and Technology Conference in October 2023, where their presented papers will be sent to […]

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