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In the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Image analysis software developed at UMaine is helping to improve how breast-cancer risk is assessed, and is being advanced toward clinical use with the potential to support earlier, lifesaving medical decisions.

James Jarvis, medical director of clinical education at @northernlighthealth Eastern Maine Medical Center, joins UMaine’s Andre Khalil and Spectrum Radiology’s Amy Harrow to discuss how this technology could improve health outcomes for our community.

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are proud to highlight the incredible work being done at Khalil’s CompuMAINE Lab. by @umaine_research

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Students researchers in humanities, social sciences, the arts and STEM - we want to hear from you!

📅 Friday, October 23 | 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
📍 GEM Multipurpose Room
🍕 Free pizza and drinks will be provided!
📣 Comment the word "advise" on this post and we'll message you a link to an online form where you can RSVP and share your ideas!

UMaine’s Office of the Vice President for Research, in collaboration with the Office of Student Life and Student Government, are forming a Student Advisory Board for research, creative and scholarly activity. This is an opportunity for students to shape the future of student research, creative and scholarly experiences across campus.

Please join our kick off meeting on Oct. 23!

@um.getinvolved | @umsginc | UMaine Graduate Student Government by @umaine_research

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More from the same Maine tree. 🌲

UMaine researchers produced 2.5× more useful chemical building blocks while using 8–20× less acid. That could mean a more efficient path from forest leftovers to fuels and products.

Swipe to see how.

#UMaineResearch #MCEC #Bioeconomy #SustainableMaterials by @umaine_research

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Join us for the next COBRE Fall Seminar!

Eric Gruenstein, PhD, will present “Synchronized Calcium Oscillations in Neuronal Networks: Their Mechanism & Potential Relationship to Alzheimer’s Disease.”

September 23 | 3:30 p.m.
107 Norman Smith Hall

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Image 1: Eric Gruenstein, PhD, stands smiling while speaking at the front of a classroom. Audience members are seated in front of him, and a presentation is projected on a screen behind him. A dark blue overlay at the bottom displays his name and the title of his seminar in white text.

Image 2: Blue gradient graphic with white text displaying event information for the COBRE Fall Seminar Series. The seminar will take place on September 23, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. in 107 Norman Smith Hall at the University of Maine Orono. Eric Gruenstein, PhD, smiles while speaking at the front of a classroom with audience members seated in front of him. Text identifies him and his seminar, “Synchronized Calcium Oscillations in Neuronal Networks: Their Mechanism & Potential Relationship to Alzheimer’s Disease.” by @umaine_research

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This is what we call a hole-in-one for Maine’s blue economy. 🦞⛳️

UMaine researchers are turning discarded lobster shells into biodegradable golf tees that are strong enough to perform, break down in about 30 days, and return natural nutrients to the soil.

Led by the Neivandt Group, this work shows how materials innovation can create new value from one of Maine’s signature industries while reducing waste and advancing more sustainable manufacturing.

#linkinbio for more on the story

#UMaine #MCEC #BlueEconomy #SustainableManufacturing #MaterialsInnovation #Golf #GolfLife #GolfLovers #SustainableGolf #MaineGolf taken in University of Maine by @umaine_research

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The best time to prepare for a wildfire is before one starts.

UMaine forestry students recently joined Maine Forest Service firefighters for a prescribed burn at the Dwight B. Demeritt University Forest, learning how controlled fire can be used to support forest health and reduce wildfire risk.

As drought, changing forest conditions and tree pests create new challenges across the Northeast, UMaine researchers are studying how prescribed fire can help forests recover and adapt.

The burn also created a living laboratory for research into how fire affects plant communities, soil health and the future of Northeastern forests.

#UMaine #Maine #UMaineResearch by @umaine_research

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What makes a blueberry wild?

Come with us to the Wyman’s Center for Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation, where Dr. Rachel Schattman and her students are studying Maine’s famous naturally grown sweet snack.

Did you know: Maine is the only state where wild blueberries are harvested commercially?

#UMaine #UMaineResearch #WildBlueberries #blueberries #Maine by @umaine_research

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College of Education and Human Development Associate Dean for Academics and Student Engagement Justin Dimmel was recently in Luxembourg for a series of lectures, seminars and research showcase events, where he demonstrated TriO — a collaborative, multiplayer, virtual learning environment, designed and developed by the University of Maine’s Immersive Mathematics in Rendered Environments (IMRE) Lab which he directs.

In 2022, Dimmel received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award that has allowed him to investigate the potential of virtual reality in K-12 mathematics education. TriO is a result of that award, as well as an international, multi-campus partnership between the University of Maine, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio Economic Research (LISER).

In Luxembourg, Dimmel and his research collaborators at UC Berkeley (Dor Abrahamson and Julien Putz) and LISER (Catalina Lomos and Yara Aoun) facilitated a training for 11 high school math and science teachers. The educators explored TriO and designed activities they could do with students that would allow them to explore virtual, 3D space through collaborative spatial navigation tasks. TriO was also featured during a two-day exhibition at the Luxembourg Science Center in Differdange, where hundreds of children and their families from schools across Luxembourg, France and Germany played TriO.

The events were supported by LISER, the Luxembourg Science Center, IFEN (Luxembourg’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of Education) and FNR (equivalent to the U.S. NSF).

Read about a recent study Dimmel co-authored about TriO at our website (link in bio). A screen at the Luxembourg Science Center shows what students playing TriO, a collaborative, multiplayer, virtual learning environment see in their virtual reality headsets. by @umaine_research

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Science looks pretty awesome sometimes.

What you're seeing is airflow made visible inside the AeroSystems Dynamics Laboratory's custom-built wind tunnel. The glowing green laser reveals the wake forming behind an airfoil as researchers prepare for the next phase of aerodynamic testing.

Built from scratch. Late nights. Real research.

Worth it. ✈️

#Aerospace #Engineering #Research #UMaine #STEM #WindTunnel #ScienceIsCool taken in University of Maine by @umaine_research

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🔬 Can you identify these samples?

Nearly 40 Orono High School students joined us on campus for our first STEM at its CORE event, exploring research through hands-on experiences in:

🧬 Biological Science & Engineering
🧪 Chemistry & Materials Science
💻 Computing & AI
🤖 Manufacturing & Robotics

These SEM images were captured by students working with Emma Perry in the Electron Microscope Lab using a Zeiss Nvision40.
Swipe through and see if you can guess what's hiding in each photo before checking the answers 👀

1️⃣ Sourdough yeast
2️⃣ Shark skin
3️⃣ Diatoms
4️⃣ Silica-cased protist
5️⃣ Fungal structures
6️⃣ Shark skin
7️⃣ Tick mouthparts

It's amazing what you can find when you zoom in a few thousand times.

#STEM #Microscopy #Research #UMaine #Engineering #Computing #Biology #STEMEducation #MaineSTEM by @umaine_research

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In a remote, nearly untouched corner of the Maine woods, people and technology are learning how to read the forest.

Howland Research Forest, which is protected as forever-wild by the @newildernesstrust, is home to 98-foot towers with instruments that measure how the forest interacts with the atmosphere every tenth of a second, and 550 research plots on the ground.

The data meticulously collected here, for 30 years, is overturning how people think about forests and their influence on the atmosphere. The monitoring at Howland powers other, more experimental research that is used by scientists, educators and land managers worldwide, including to:
🌲🌬️Compare carbon dynamics on a neighboring forest that was partially harvested in partnership with @togetherwithafm
🛰️ Ground-truth satellite instruments for @nasa
🌧️ Find out how rainfall influences the ebb and flow of methane from the forest
🌲 Track tree growth trends
🌐 Build climate models
🧑‍🏫Teach the next generation of forest scientists.

This year, interruptions in federal support nearly shut the project down. A private gift made through the @universityofmainefoundation kept the towers running through next August, but the future of this work is still uncertain.

Long-term research can’t simply be restarted once it’s lost. The value comes from decades of uninterrupted observation.

Swipe through to learn why this forest matters, and share this post to help more people understand why we should keep listening to what Howland Research Forest has to tell us.

Learn more about what’s happening in this forest – and how you can help – at the link in our bio.

@umaineelh | @umaine_sfr | @forestproud | @umainealumni | @maineoutingclub Aerial footage of a forest and research tower with the following overlay text "Where scientists watch the forest breathe, 30 years of findings could change how forests are managed for generations. And it’s at risk." by @umaine_research

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There's a whole world you've never seen. 🔬

These images were captured by @university.of.maine students through the CORE Imaging Your Research Photo Contest and showcased at @imrcmaine . They provide a glimpse of the creativity and cutting-edge research happening right here at UMaine. This year's entries were captured in UMaine’s Electron Microscopy Lab with a @zeiss_microscopy NVision 40 FIB/SEM.

Swipe through to see the world at the microscopic scale through the eyes of our students!

Can you guess what you're looking at? Who do you think won? 🏆 Winners will be shared in the comments in one week.

1️⃣ “Behold the distal portion of a Dermacentor albipictus (winter tick) leg.” by Donne Sinderson
2️⃣ “Snorting of the Living Dough” by Alicia Bell
3️⃣”Chaoborid Tail” by Greg Kronisch
4️⃣ “Diatom Frustule” by Kayla Guthrie
5️⃣ “Requiem for a Dreadnought” by Josie Aprea
6️⃣ “Hidden bloom” by Nabanita Das.
7️⃣ “Mouse kidney” by Nathan Jalbert
8️⃣ “Caverns of Vanished Water” by Autumn Greene
9️⃣ “Nano Snowfall: Peptoid Nanoparticle Clusters” by Kalani Samarasekara
1️⃣0️⃣ “Through the Fusarium Network” by Nichole Baker

📩 Interested in accessing the SEM, getting trained or signing up for next year’s contest? Reach out to UMaine’s Coordinated Operating Research Entities unit, which manages the lab, at um.core@maine.edu. Image of a winter tick leg photographed through a scanning electron microscope. by @umaine_research

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