Media cover 2018 UMaine Student Symposium
WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the third annual UMaine Student Symposium at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. The free event, which is part of Maine Impact Week, offered an opportunity for community members to meet more than 1,300 student researchers and scholars, see their posters and exhibits, hear their presentations, view short performances, and participate in arts and humanities roundtables. “People in Maine with different problems and different needs for technology, they can come and see here how research actually translates into our daily life,” Ali Abedi, director of the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Maine, told WABI. During the event, UMaine nursing students offered blood pressure screenings to promote the importance of keeping up with your health, WABI reported. WVII spoke with biomedical engineering students who created a diagnostic glove, in partnership with volunteer search and rescue group Down East Emergency Medicine Institute (DEEMI). “The drone will drop our glove design to the patient where they put it on, and the biometric data from the sensors will be sent back to the drone and then sent back the Humvee where the doctor can get that in real time,” said Brianna DeGone, a UMaine biomedical engineering student.