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ONLY AT UMAINE! ADVANCING HUMANITY THROUGH RESEARCH
from UMAINE - Viewbook
by SonoStudios
∙ UMaine students have worked to tur n wood into jet fuel
∙ W iSe-Net Lab: Wireless sensors developed at UMaine for NASA are being tested on the International Space Station
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∙ Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab: Studying the human interactions for optimizing the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of autonomous vehicles
∙ Fluorescence PhotoActivation Localization Microscopy (FPALM): Technology that exceeds the theoretical limits of light microscopes to study live viruses and more
∙ The Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab: high-performance rotatable wind machine over a multidirectional wave basin to build and test scale models
∙ Bioinformatics researchers created an online database to compare regenerative tissue capabilities among animals
∙ Green Supercomputing: Run a supercomputer modeling the melting of glacial ice, powered by the energy generated by 10 cyclists