Media cover 2016 Student Research Symposium
WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine’s 2016 Student Research Symposium. More than 500 undergraduate and graduate students presented their work at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. “It’s our job to take the knowledge that the students and the faculty are producing and apply that to concerns for the state,” Carol Kim, UMaine’s vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, told WLBZ. One of those concerns, according to WLBZ, is the state’s aging population and finding ways for residents to stay in their homes longer. Ali Abedi, a UMaine professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), spoke to WLBZ about sensor technology UMaine students are developing to monitor people at home in a noninvasive way. “It’s just amazing what the students are doing,” Kim said. “And every year I think that the level and the quality of the work just gets better and better.” Abedi told WABI the event allows the opportunity for students to present their research in a professional setting and “connect with the general public in terms of how our research can help with the state’s economy and can help solve some of the problems we have in many different disciplines.”