Medical Xpress published a University of Maine news release announcing UMaine was recently issued a patent for a device that detects brain injury by measuring sleep movement patterns. The technology will be licensed by Activas Diagnostics, a UMaine spinoff company. The invention is a fitted mattress sheet equipped with more than a dozen sensors that […]
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University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, and UMaine students Courtney Hatton and Bentley Simpson, were recent guests on the George Hale and Ric Tyler Show on 103.9 WVOM, The Voice of Maine. Ferrini-Mundy, Hatton and Simpson also were interviewed by WVII (Channel 7), and The Maine Edge also spoke […]
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Mainebiz reported the UMaine Business Challenge at the University of Maine announced the winners of its eighth annual pitch contest presented by Business Lending Solutions, which awarded $16,000 in cash and prizes to collegiate entrepreneurs. Maxwell Burtis, a UMaine mechanical engineering student, won both the first-place prize of $5,000 and the $10,000 Innovations Prize with […]
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The Associated Press covered this year’s Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting April 5 and 6 in Portland. The University of Maine Lobster Institute hosted this year’s event, which had a theme of “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities” and attracted lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and others from both countries, according to the article. News […]
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Maine Impact Week celebrates University of Maine faculty, students, community and their contributions to the social and economic advancement of the state and beyond. The public is invited to attend multiple events highlighting the impact of research and creative work produced by Maine’s research university the week of April 8–13. The featured event is the […]
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Four Maine entrepreneurs will talk about their businesses and how they achieved success in the first event of the Maine Business School Executive Speaker Series on April 4 at the University of Maine. Noah Bissell of Bissell Brothers Brewing Co., Kate McAleer of Bixby & Co. craft chocolates, and Jack and Max Barber of Mainely […]
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Eleven graduate students competed in the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on March 25 at the Innovative Media Research Center at the University of Maine. The unique competition, developed by the University of Queensland, requires presenters to explain their research using language the general public would comprehend in three minutes. The competitors were allowed […]
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Maine Startups Insider and Mainebiz reported KinoTek, a startup company founded at the University of Maine last year, has won the inaugural “Greenlight Maine” Collegiate Challenge. Run by UMaine kinesiology and psychology student Justin Hafner, KinoTek creates virtual reality technology that visualizes the body’s muscles and the specific movements they generate, the articles state. KinoTek surpassed […]
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University of Maine student entrepreneurs working out of and with mentors at UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation student incubator have won all three finalist spots in the college competition of “Greenlight Maine,” a business contest television show twice nominated for an Emmy Award. The students will compete live for the grand prize at 4 […]
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Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, was a recent guest on WVOM’s “George Hale and Ric Tyler Show.” President Ferrini-Mundy reflected on her time in the position so far and discussed R&D, workforce development and more, as well as what’s next for the campuses.
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