Events

Headshots of GSBSE Institute of Medicine Fellowships Award Winners: Bailey Blair, Joshua Hamilton, Kathryn Patenaude.

GSBSE Institute of Medicine Fellowship Award Recipients

The University of Maine Institute of Medicine awarded nine graduate summer fellowships for 2023. These awards are to support students’ research in health science and biomedicine, and awards include $6,000 for a stipend, one graduate tuition credit and health insurance coverage.  We are happy to inform that three of the nine awards were received by […]

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Photo of Cory Diemler, GSBSE Ph.D. student standing in front of the stage, holding his 1st place award certificate.

Cory Diemler, GSBSE Ph.D. Student, took 1st place at recent Student Showcase

The fifth annual BioME Student Showcase took place in Bangor, ME. Students shared their science research and the GSBSE Ph.D. student, Cory Diemler, took the first place and award for his outstanding research “TREM2 Microglia: An Alternative Therapeutic Target for Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration.”  Cory states that glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease and is the second leading […]

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GSBSE Ph.D. Student, Junie Fong, takes 3rd place at recent Student Showcase

On May 3, 2023, BioME organized the fifth annual BioME Student Showcase at Bangor Arts Exchange in Bangor, ME. This provided students with an opportunity to share their passion for life science research.  We are happy to announce that 3rd Place was taken by GSBSE Ph.D. student, Junie Fong, with her project “Creating Efficient Anti-Bacterial […]

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Recent Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering PhD graduate, Cory Johnson at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at the University of Maine in Orono on May 5, 2023.

Cory Johnson, Ph.D. — GSBSE Graduating Student Spotlight

Cory Johnson, Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering finished the Program in Sept 2022, and participated in Commencement in May 2023. Cory shares his thoughts and experiences after the completing the program below: How has GSBSE helped you develop into the research scientist or engineer that you are today? GSBSE […]

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Two affiliated GSBSE faculty, Drs. Maginnis & May, to present in “MSF Pop-up event: Science on Tap hits the road”

Drs. Melissa Maginnis, Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine, and Meghan May, Associate Professor in Microbiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of New England College of Medicine, will present in the next installment of the popular “Science on Tap” series […]

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