Faculty News

MCEC Dean to Deliver Plenary Talk at International Health Workshop

Dean Giovanna Guidoboni of the Maine College of Engineering and Computing will deliver a plenary talk at the Mathematics for Our Health (M4H) Workshop, scheduled for Nov. 7-8 at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. Her presentation, “From the Blackboard to the Clinic: Combining Mechanism-Driven and Data-Driven Models for Personalized Medicine,” will explore how integrated modeling techniques […]

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Prof. Caitlin Howell gets spotlighted during Maine Bioscience Day

Prof. Caitlin Howell gets spotlighted during Maine Bioscience Day, put on by BIOME (Bioscience Association of Maine) for middle school kids around our state. “We are all so excited about the work that we do, it’s wonderful to be able to share that excitement with the next generation of scientists and engineers.”

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NSF CAREER AWARD RECIPIENTS

University of Maine Faculty Receive Prestigious NSF CAREER Awards, Garnering over $1.8 Million in 2023

The University of Maine (UMaine) continues its impressive streak of securing National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards. In 2023, the NSF granted three awards to faculty members Evan Wujcik, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), Seth Campbell, Associate Professor at the School of Earth and Climate […]

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WE’RE HIRING! The Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE) at the University of Maine (UMaine), the flagship R1 campus of the University of Maine System, invites applications for the position of Department Chair.

WE’RE HIRING!!! Link to application: https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=82455&job=chair-of-chemical-and-biomedical-engineering The Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE) at the University of Maine (UMaine), the flagship R1 campus of the University of Maine System, invites applications for the position of Department Chair. The CBE department (http://www.umaine.edu/chb/) has 15 faculty, two administrative support staff, and two technical support professionals, with […]

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Prof. Howell receives 2023 Gilbreth Lectureship from National Academy of Engineering

Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, was awarded a 2023 Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). NAE established the Gilbreth Lectures in 2001 in honor of Lillian Gilbreth, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965. The lectureship recognizes outstanding young American […]

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Prof. Wujcik joins the Early Career Editorial Board for Composites Communications (COCO)!

Composites Communications (Compos. Commun. or COCO) publishes peer-refereed short communications and letters on the latest advances and progresses in composites science and technology. It aims to disseminate new knowledge to the broad composites community in a timely fashion with its rapid review and publication process. See the journal homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/composites-communications

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New Article Alert in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science

A new article came out of the MEAN Lab (PI: Wujcik) in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science entitled “Point-of-need quantitative detection of trihalomethanes in environmental water samples using a highly sensitive and selective fiber-based preconcentration system” ….check it out here!

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