Rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide are home to trillions of pieces of plastic pollution that are smaller than five millimeters in length, known as microplastics, and their size allows them to easily enter humans and animals. Some can adsorb and transport other harmful toxicants that pollute waterways, including certain types of a more recently discovered […]
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John Belding, director of the University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center, was featured on a panel titled “Industry 4.0 and Maine’s Future in the Global Market,” hosted by the Maine International Trade Center on May 9. The panel was one of the organization’s annual Maine International Trade Day events.
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Antibiotic resistance has become a growing problem in the treatment of bacterial infections. In addition to minimizing or negating the effects of existing medicine, these antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or “superbugs,” are mutating faster than the development of new remedies. Caitlin Howell, University of Maine associate professor of biomedical engineering, is working on new tools that take […]
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The University of Maine’s 2023 commencement ceremonies for graduate and undergraduate students will be May 5–6 at Harold Alfond Sports Arena. The Graduate School Commencement begins at 4 p.m. May 5, featuring an address by Suzanne Ortega, president of the Council of Graduate Schools. An estimated 424 graduate students are expected to be on hand […]
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported that the University of Maine has launched the Maine College of Engineering and Computing. “Engineering historically has always been leading change. And that [is] because every time that you take a problem, and you find a solution for that problem, you have changed the world and so that is […]
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The 2023 Presidential Awards recognize outstanding teaching in molecular and biomedical sciences, pioneering research in wireless sensor technology, public engagement and research focused on K–12 rural education, and innovation that has advanced Maine’s potato breeding program. Sally Molloy, associate professor of genomics, received the Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; Ali Abedi, professor of electrical and computer […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine research led by Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering, in partnership with Sappi North America has received a $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation to explore how existing mass produced technologies can be used to study and scale up microfluidic technology.
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A recent episode of PBS NOVA featured floating offshore wind research being conducted at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “Within 50 miles of the U.S. coast — both east and west coast — there’s enough offshore wind capacity, theoretically, to power the country four times over,” said Habib Dagher, founding executive […]
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Eric Landis, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, partnered with researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of Vermont, who are all a part of the Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), for a project entitled “Advanced Sensing Technologies for Practical UAV-Based Condition Assessment” Their work, titled “Bridge […]
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Inside Higher Ed interviewed Brianna Dym, lecturer in the University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science, about student Discord servers. “The servers operate like little fiefdoms. You have the person who founded the server, and they have supreme administrator controls unless they relinquish them. Then you can appoint other administrators who have other […]
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