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Amanda Ignacz: Strengthening neuromuscular disease research through NIH award

The National Institutes of Health awarded University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Amanda Ignacz the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for her work with neuromuscular disease.  This nationally competitive award honors and invests in pre-doctoral students by helping them obtain research training while conducting their dissertation research.  Enrolled in the Graduate School […]

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Grant renews and expands biomedical network integral to UMaine research 

To increase the faculty and research base in biomedical sciences and engineering, the University of Maine has been a research institution partner in the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Maine INBRE) and a source of graduate students for the future of biomedical research. As a partner, UMaine biomedical faculty have also benefited from […]

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UMaine’s surveying program receives equipment loan valued at $1.7 million

The University of Maine’s Surveying Engineering Technology (SVT) program has received an equipment loan valued at $1.7 million from Topcon Positioning Systems Inc., an industry-leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of precision measurement and workflow solutions headquartered in Livermore, California. The university’s SVT program, which has the largest number of undergraduate students per faculty in the […]

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State’s research community to gather at UMaine’s second annual Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering

The University of Maine Institute of Medicine announced that it is hosting the second annual Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering from Oct. 25–27. Events will take place at a variety of locations on the university’s flagship campus in Orono. Partner organizations participating in the symposium include The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), MDI Biological Laboratory, MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, the […]

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Warming waters could make bass more aggressive toward salmon, UMaine study finds

Non-native smallmouth bass are more aggressive toward endangered juvenile Atlantic salmon and more voraciously eat local food supplies at higher temperatures, according to a University of Maine study. As a result of warming waters, more non-native warmwater fish species are invading watershed habitats, disrupting local freshwater food webs and competing with native species for limited […]

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Media report on $11.3 million UMaine grant from NIH

WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) and WVFX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) reported that the National Institutes of Health awarded the University of Maine with a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award for $11.3 million to support biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in […]

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UMaine awarded $11.3 million from NIH to support biomedical research

Editor’s note: This story was updated March 31, 2023. The University of Maine has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from […]

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Wujcik to present at 94th New England Complex Fluids Workshop

Evan Wujcik, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will deliver a keynote presentation at the 94th New England Complex Fluids (NECF) Workshop, hosted at the University of Rhode Island on March 17, 2023. His talk: “Investigation of Polymer Systems and their Composites for Advanced Functional […]

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Ortega-Jimenez presented at APS March Meeting in Las Vegas

Victor Ortega-Jimenez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, presented at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., on March 6. Ortega-Jimenez’s presentation, “Fatal attraction: Electrostatic forces pull jumping nematodes directly to their charged prey,” was with former colleagues at Georgia Tech, Sunny Kumar and Saad Bhamla.

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