Vice President Kim speaks at biomedical research symposium, WLBZ reports
WLBZ (Channel 2) covered a symposium hosted by the Maine Medical Center Research Institute that focused on biomedical research funded by the National Institutes of Health and its effect on the state. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was the event’s keynote speaker and participated in a roundtable discussion. Carol Kim, the University of Maine’s vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, was a member of the panel. She spoke about an initiative at UMaine that is developing new technologies, including an indoor navigation system, which tracks seniors citizens to help keep them safe, according to the report. “If you are living here in southern Maine and your loved one is in Aroostook County, for instance, you can track where they are inside the home,” she said. “But rather than having something more invasive, you would just track them as a dot on a monitor.”