October 12, 2017 Drew Brooks, a microbiology and music double major from Lyman, Maine, came to the University of Maine with a goal of becoming a medical doctor. As a sophomore, Brooks already has been accepted to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine Track Early Assurance program. Born of a partnership between Tufts […]
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Maine will be one step closer to closing the gap in its health care workforce when 115 University of Maine School of Nursing students — the largest first-year class in recent history — take an oath of compassionate care on Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. Nearly 300 parents, teachers, alumni and students will gather […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported the Maine Medical Center Research Institute has been awarded a five-year, $11 million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant by the National Institutes of Health. The funding will be used to establish a research center to model the basis of human metabolic diseases, according to the institute. The program includes […]
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June 6, 2017 Physicians and other medical providers at Eastern Maine Medical Center recently awarded scholarships to three University of Maine students this who aspire to enter health professions in Maine after graduation. “It is a privilege for the medical staff at Eastern Maine Medical Center to award scholarships to deserving students at the University […]
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April 25, 2017 Editor’s note: An updated version of this story appears in the College of Engineering’s winter 2017 magazine. Madeline Wehrle was interested in medicine from an early age. After being introduced to isometric drawing and computer-aided design, or CAD, modeling in high school, she also became interested in bioengineering. “It was more of […]
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https://youtu.be/UKl-bs0nSF4 Transcript When podiatrist Dr. Todd O’Brien had an idea for a product that could help his patients, he knew he could come to 91¸£Àû’s Advanced Manufacturing Center to turn that idea into a commercial product. O’Brien’s invention is the ETF128, an electronic tuning fork which measures sensitivity and sensation loss in the limbs of […]
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