Mainebiz reported on the medical research partnership between the University of Maine and University of Southern Maine to advance the field of medicine and create new professional development opportunities. The pilot partnership is led by the UMaine Institute of Medicine and provides fellowships to USM faculty, who will become adjunct faculty at UMaine and work […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted the research and achievements of Kendra Batchelder, co-founder/CEO of Waved Medical LLC and a University of Maine alumna. She and her company will be competing for $25,000 in the Top Gun Showcase Pitch Event during the Maine Entrepreneurs Summit after recently winning the Regional Top Gun Pitch. Batchelder applied her […]
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Starting in 2019, the U.S. Mint began issuing four specialty coins per year, one for each state, in celebration of U.S. innovation for the American Innovation $1 Coin program. By 2032, leaders of all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories will have chosen an innovator or innovation to represent their […]
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New technology to study cancer, unique materials for medical devices and diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are among the areas of research being conducted through a new partnership between the University of Maine and University of Southern Maine. Led by UMaine’s Institute of Medicine, the pilot program provides fellowships to USM faculty to conduct research through […]
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The University of Maine Foster Center for Innovation announced the third annual Innovation Awards winners, who will be honored in a ceremony at the center on April 11 as part of Maine Impact Week. The awards recognize and celebrate the impact of students, faculty, staff and alumni who are active in innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization. The 2024 […]
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WFVX (Fox 22 in Bangor) highlighted research from University of Maine students and assistant professor of chemical engineering Evan Wujcik that aimed to make wearable sensor technology more comfortable and reliable. The team of researchers created a prototype of a wearable sensor system that can repair itself like skin by reattaching pieces that tear. “Those […]
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The second Maine Research Symposium on Biomedical Science and Engineering has been rescheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, March 27-28, in the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine. Originally scheduled for Oct. 25-27, the symposium was cut short Oct. 26 in response to the mass shooting in Lewiston. On the event’s first day, participants […]
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University of Maine undergraduate student Olivia Britton published an op-ed on CentralMaine.com through the Scholars Strategy Network. Britton’s op-ed is titled “Make opioid reversal medication available to Mainers.”
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The University of Maine Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) has awarded seed funding to support pilot projects from three early career faculty during the 2023-24 academic year and through April 1, 2025. The seed funding from UMaine COBRE’s pilot project program will help awardees secure instruments and other supplies for their projects, all of […]
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The International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CATES) gave Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, its 2023 Communication Prize. According to CATES, “the prize is awarded to the most outstanding audiovisual communication of excellence and innovation in technological sciences or engineering.” Howell won the prize with […]
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