UMaine Institute of Medicine

We continue with our series featuring the nine graduate students who received research fellowships to focus on research last summer.  Joshua David Hamilton, a biomedical engineering Ph.D. student advised by Andre Khalil, received funding for a project titled “Breast cancer case-control pilot study on patient-matched mammograms and histological tissue slides for NCI grant renewal proposal.”  […]

The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2023-24 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) academic year fellowship winners.  The Institute of Medicine will fund one fellowship, awarded to Sydney Brown, Molecular and Cellular Biology, “Evaluation of calcium inhibitor drugs in JC Polyomavirus infection,” advised by Melissa Maginnis The CUGR […]

We continue with our series featuring the nine graduate students who received research fellowships to focus on research last summer.  Sean Sibley, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CNE, Clinical Assistant Faculty & FNP Program Coordinator in the University of Maine School of Nursing and a Ph.D. candidate in Nursing Education took time to answer a few questions […]

Katie Patenaude is one of the nine graduate students who received a research fellowship to focus on research this summer.  She took time to answer a few questions about the impact of the award, her experience at UMaine and plans for the future.  We wish her the best as she defends her dissertation on September […]

Avery England is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry. Her thesis advisor, Prof Scott Collins, says “Avery is delightful to work with. She is a dedicated and diligent student with an eclectic curiosity that drives her research with intriguing perspectives.” Avery shared her path to a Ph.D. program and her interest in nanoscience:  ___________________________________________________________________________ As a chemistry student, I […]

An interdisciplinary graduate certificate program, targeting creative and medical practitioners, designed to examine in-depth the intersection of Art and Medicine.  Its goal is to use multi-modal research to develop different ways of knowing, seeing and making. At the University of Maine, within the Intermedia program, the Maine Arts and Humanities in Medicine graduate certificate program […]

  UMaine’s Communication Sciences and Disorders are looking for participants! Are you a practicing pediatric professional in the medical field in Maine? Consider taking this <15 minute anonymous survey to support our graduate student’s thesis? Survey Link Here  

UMaine Institute of Medicine Subject:  Summer fellowships for graduate students in biomedical research/labs Dear Colleagues, The Institute of Medicine (IoM) requests proposals to support graduate students involved in biomedical research on the Orono campus during summer 2023, under supervision from a UMaine faculty member.  The fellowships are meant to support the goals and objectives of […]

The Certificate, Arts & Humanities in Medicine, is the result of an inter-organizational working group from Northern Light/Eastern Maine Medical Center (NL/EMMC) and the University of Maine. This program, focused on the intersection of arts, humanities and medicine, seeks to bring together practitioners from many fields and disciplines to explore imaginative solutions to the issue […]