The UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), UMaine Space, UMaine AI and Institute of Medicine announce the recipients of the CUGR, Institute of Medicine, and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Summer Research Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research. Winners of the fellowships will receive $3,000 to […]
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University of Maine research 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. Microfluidics studies the behavior of certain fluids through microscopic channels. The movement can be used to learn more […]
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Business Insider featured a tour of the Advanced Structures and Composite Center’s (ASCC) recyclable 3D-printed house. Yahoo News and The New York Ledger shared the Business Insider report.
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News Center Maine featured “Co-Translation: Making the Invisible Visible Nanotechnology & Art vs. PFAS and Microplastics,” a collaborative exhibit between Environmental Engineering students and Intermedia students at the University of Maine.
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Nip Impressions profiled Alia Parsons, a University of Maine senior in chemical engineering with a minor in business administration and a concentration in pulp and paper management, about her college experience and support from with the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, which provides scholarships to engineering and forestry students pursuing careers in the […]
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In an article about a 3D-printed, autonomous, and electric passenger ferry that Roboat, Holland Shipyards Group and Sequana Développement are planning to debut for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, 3DPrint.com noted that the University of Maine has 3D printed large-scale boats at its Advanced Structures and Composites Center, one of which is reportedly the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Babak Hejrati, director of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Laboratory in the University of Maine Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received a more than $432,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes on Health to create a novel wearable robotic system and intelligent methods that, for […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared that the 2023 Annual UMaine Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity will be held on April 14 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. For more information about the program, the book of abstracts and information on attending, visit the symposium webpage.
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WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) interviewed Lucy Slattery, president of the Society of Physics Students from the University of Maine, at a hands-on STEM night at Morse High School. Slattery and her team used an electric experience to show physics is fun. “Kids get to interact and learn more about STEM because, by the time […]
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Twelve undergraduates have been named 2023 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Read their short biographies: Mille Baartvedt Mille Baartvedt of Oslo, Norway is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The kinesiology and physical education major is a Presidential Scholar. On campus, she has worked […]
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