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Older Adult Health and Wellness Fair

Join us on April 9 in the Buchanan Alumni House!  This two-hour, free event brings together more than a dozen exhibitors and 200+ participants for health screenings, education opportunities, and information about local volunteer groups and older adult services. The Fair is hosted by UMaine’s Center on Aging and is open to drop-in visitors. Additional […]

Research Learning Experience

The Research Learning Experience (RLE) info session via Zoom will take place on April 11th, at 12PM! We hope you can attend! The call for submissions is still open and encouraged. The deadline to apply for the Fall 2024 semester is on Monday, May 20th. Please send completed applications to Charlotte MacDonald (charlotte.macdonald@maine.edu)    During the info session, Pamela […]

Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Technologies

Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Professor & Director of the Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technologies A series of short courses and timely talks in Portland with experts from the University of Maine Limited to 25 participants Registration required  25$ per seat 

“Linking Plant, Animal, and Human Health in Livestock Systems: a Metabolomics Approach.”

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Phd., Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science at Utah State University. Faculty profile here; “Dr. van Vliet’s research is performed at the nexus of agricultural and human health. He routinely collaborates with farmers, ecologists, and agricultural scientists to study critical linkages between agricultural production methods, the nutrient density of food, and human […]

Free

The Maine Patient Safety Academy offering – Navigating Together: Charting a Course for Safer Care

Judy Tupper, DHEd, MCHES, CPPS, Director, Population Health, Catherine Cutler Institute, and a faculty affiliated with the Institute of Medicine invites you to an event organized by the Maine Patient Safety Academy.  Register today for the 2024 Maine Patient Safety Academy! Anyone interested or engaged in patient safety is welcome to attend this exciting educational and […]

PFAS: New Research and Impacts for Maine

Onur G. Apul, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering  A series of short courses and timely talks in Portland with experts from the University of Maine Limited to 25 participants Registration required  25$ per seat 

The human microbiome and cancer risk: Opportunities for prospective studies

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Emily Vogtmann is an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics in the National Cancer Institute. She received her B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology and B.A. in Spanish from Michigan State University, M.P.H. in international health epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. […]

Free

Antimicrobial chemicals, antimicrobial resistance, and the indoor microbiome

Virtual

Speaker: Dr. Erica Hartmann, PhD., Associate Professor at Northwestern University. Dr. Erica Marie Hartmann is an environmental microbiologist interested in the interaction between anthropogenic chemicals and microorganisms, as well as bio-inspired mechanisms for controlling microbial communities.   Link to page with more info on the speakers. Register for this session

Free

What microbes can tell us about the built environment

Virtual

Speaker:  Dr. Davida Smyth, PhD., is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University – San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland, and completed her postdoctoral training at New York Medical College, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and New York University. She has served as an […]

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