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Event highlights

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Total Solar Eclipse In Maine, April 8April 7-8 • Jackman, Maine • Versant Power Astronomy Center staff will host public stargazing and eclipse viewing.
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Fogler Library Research Impact ChallengeApril 8 - 12 • Sign up for a weeklong program of daily emails designed to help researchers learn how to showcase their impact!
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Faculty Mentor Awards LuncheonApril 9 • Invitation only.
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Older Adult Health and Wellness FairApril 9 • 1-3 p.m. • Buchanan Alumni House
Nursing students in a simulation lab
HRSA Summit: Innovations in Rural Health Care, Resilience, and Substance Use DisorderApril 10 • 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. • Wells Conference Center, Room 3
Student in a chemical engineering lab works to develop a biomedical device
Coordinated Operating Research Entities (CORE) ShowcaseApril 10 • 3-6 p.m. • Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center
Participants during a session of the MIRTA business development bootcamp at Foster Innovation Center
Maine Innovation ExchangeApril 11 • Tours 9-11 a.m. • Exchange 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. • Buchanan Alumni House • Learn how to tap into UMaine's wealth of research, innovation, infrastructure, and talent.
Intermedia iPhD spring 2024 event. iPh.D. Candidate presentations. Thursday, April 11 at 4 pm at the IMRC
iPhD student presentationsApril 11 • 4:00 p.m. • Innovative Media and Commercialization Center
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Innovation AwardsApril 11 • 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. • Foster Center for Innovation
An overview of a poster session at the UMaine Student Symposium
UMaine Student SymposiumApril 12 • New Balance Field House
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Introduction to Patents & TrademarksApril 12 • 10-11:30 a.m. • Library Classroom 1, Fogler Library
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How to Do Basic Searches for Patent & TrademarksApril 12 • 3-4:30 p.m. • Library Classroom 1, Fogler Library
Caitlin Howell and her Graduate Research student Junie Fong, a PhD student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, develop new components for medical catheters to help decrease the chance of infection with a new coating.
UMaine Research and Development Services Portland ExpoApril 23 • 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. • Portland Gateway

Want to host an event?

We want to hear from you. Maine Impact Week is dedicated to bringing attention to the breadth and depth of our research and scholarly activities in Maine and beyond. It reflects a unique opportunity to engage with the greater community to celebrate the great work our faculty, staff and students are doing across campus. Email Lyz Teixeira, elizabeth.teixeira@maine.edu for more information.