Howell Group UMaine @CHowellLab

Dear Students, depite the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic, this music group (UceLi Quartet) performed in front of a packed, LIVE audience! Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. Concert attendees… instagram.com/p/CB04dDGBgF4/…

Dear Students, since we think about NASA and space a lot in our work, you might get a kick out of these planet posters that NASA put together. A bit low resolution, but the high-res originals can be found on the… instagram.com/p/CAYRxmvBb6H/…

Dear Students, ever get this feeling? From cartoonist Tom Gauld. instagram.com/p/B-vY0LVBXNL/…

Hey, @VEMI_Lab ! Check out Oisin getting highlighted on the UM Symposium website for our collaborative project! Can't wait to see the poster. Did we finally decide to decorate it with blue and gold ostrich feathers?… instagram.com/p/B9kM_YfBu11/…

2020 Engineering Expo at the UMaine Field House today! Shout out to our amazing biomedical engineers who are here to help us explain to the community all the cool things we do. @ Field House instagram.com/p/B9cQqUIBnml/…

Duke University in Durham, NC. Beautiful campus, complete with approximately a zillion brand-new engineering buildings (+1 more on the way in Fall 2021!) as well as a life-size replica of a gothic cathedral. The… instagram.com/p/B9U6RgpHwNN/…

Dear students: time for a geography lesson! The town of Cuenca, Spain, is a UNESCO world heritage site located about halfway between Madrid and Valencia. It is a natural fortress, with the walls and hoises built… instagram.com/p/B6ssnqnB3sx/…

Dear students: if you ever find yourselves in Germany, a trip South to a small town called Tegernsee is very much worth it. The castle is only accessible if you're there for a Max Planck Society meeting, but you… instagram.com/p/B6QYWutB3S_/…

Dear students, did you know that the Max Planck Society in Germany had a castle donated to them that they use for their meetings? We need more of that in the US. @ Schloß Ringberg Tegernsee instagram.com/p/B6K0MBxBcap/…

Those of you who were hanging around the lab in 2018 may have seen masters student Kayla Marquis making 10,000 bacterial plates, and undergrad Ben Chasse working alongside her. Well, all that hard work paid off!… instagram.com/p/B55j5qPBJ2s/…

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Congrats to Industrial M.S. candidate Amber for successful passing her thesis defense. Amazing work you've done on rapid prototyping of mass-manufacturable microfluidics! Another student saving the world. @… instagram.com/p/B53EOLdhgrx/…

Dear Students: Look who I found at the 2019 AIChE conference in Orlando today! Jonathan Overton, UMaine MS Bioengineering 2017 and current PhD student at Purdue- my very first grad student. He's rocking multiple… instagram.com/p/B4vYL-qh9qu/…

Dear students: We've seen our fair share of these. instagram.com/p/B4kIGW3BvLA/…

Dear Students: Ever wonder how to get yourself remembered at a conference with hundreds of even thousands of people? Here's one way- meet Dr. Badger of Swinburn University in Australia and his publicity… instagram.com/p/B4AUbNan-FN/…

Dan just won first place in the poster competition here at AVS! He presented the work we published this year in Biointerphases on using modified paper to localize and concentrate bacterial solutions. Nice job, Dan! @… instagram.com/p/B39tzcon1Gb/…

A wild Dan appears at the AVS conference today! Also in today's discoveries: crayon art, but not how you might think. @ Greater Columbus Convention Center instagram.com/p/B37Gg5uBn_g/…

Dear Students, one of my favorite things about being in science is the fact that we get to travel to share our work and see new things. Today at the AVS meeting in Columbus I have already found a Lego painting and an… instagram.com/p/B32A5tNha_b/…

Free food public service announcement! Thursday the 24th 11:00-2:00 in the Jenness Hall lobby, usually Moe's BBQ or an equivalent (not pizza). The door prizes are fun, too, and they let you play with science gizmos!… instagram.com/p/B3ciRFLhmEA/…

Dear students: We all know diversity is a critical part of building effective teams, and that it's not easy to come by here in Maine. So it's always great to hear when it does happen and to be able to look for ways… instagram.com/p/B3QLEOihslh/…