The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2024–25 academic year fellowship awardees, including several students from the Maine College of Engineering and Computing (MCEC). This year’s fellowships were made possible through support from CUGR, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, Maine EPSCoR […]
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Biomedical Engineering major Zoe Vittum of Brewer, Maine is named UMaine 2023 Salutatorian! Vittum, who minors in bioinstrumentation and neuroscience, is a UMaine Presidential Scholar, and a 2022–23 Helen Louise Stinchfield ’18 Memorial Scholar and Tau Beta Pi Scholar. Her numerous academic and research awards include two National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) […]
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Theophile Nkulikiyinka of Kigali, Rwanda is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering. Nkulikiyinka, a biomedical engineering student, is a Presidential Scholar and the recipient of the International Presidential Scholarship. He has been an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of professor Michael Mason, evaluating the potential of cellulose nanofiber as a biomaterial […]
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BME Junior Ainslie Allen was awarded first place for her research poster and 3-minute oral flash presentation at the AVS 68th Annual Symposium and Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA, on November 8th, 2022. Her work focused on the development of a smartphone-based surface contamination detection system. Ainslie competed against both graduate and other undergraduate students to […]
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