College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street in One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure. Follow along with Big Bird, Elmo and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, as they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from earth. They explore […]

March 25 at 7:30 p.m., and March 26 at 2:00 p.m. Minsky Recital Hall Admission: $9, free with student MaineCard

Conversation in French. All levels of ability are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. Occurs weekly on Mondays when classes are in session. Little Hall, Room 207

“News Media Coverage of Climate Change Impacts on Native Maine Brook Trout” Ben Wyman, Communication MA candidate Department of Communication and Journalism Part of the CMJ Colloquium Series 12:00 p.m. @ 424 Dunn Hall

Joy Giguere, Associate Professor of the History Department, Penn State University, will speak on 'People seem to go there to enjoy themselves: Public (Mis)behavior & the Rural Cemetery Movement in America' Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall

Speaker: Douglas Stuart, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Dickinson College Professor DOUGLAS STUART is the first holder of the J. William and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies at Dickinson College and is also an Adjunct Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College. He is the author, co-author or editor of ten books, four monographs, […]

Mammoths lived on nearly all continents. In North America, the Columbian mammoth was well established when the wooly mammoth arrived from Siberia. By the end of the Ice Age all mammoths had gone extinct except for a relic population on Wrangle Island, which survived until about 4,500 years ago. Part of the Phi Beta Kappa […]

Part of the 'The Human Dimensions of Climate Change' Film Series Disussion with Dr. Paul Mayewski, Director & Professor, Climate Change Institute March 28, 6:00 pm Library Room, Fogler Library

Conversation in German. All levels of ability are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. Occurs weekly on Wednesdays when classes are in session. Little Hall, 207

"The arboreal Galois group of a PCF cubic polynomial" Presented by: Rob Benedetto, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Location: Barrows Hall, Hill Auditorium Sponsor: Department of Mathematics and Statistics Contact: Thomas Bellsky, 207.581.3900 Rob Benedetto Website

Conversation in Spanish. All levels of ability are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. Occurs weekly on Thursdays when classes are in session. Little Hall, 207

BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES OF NONHARMING/NONVIOLENCE AND BUDDHIST MILITARISM IN JAPAN, SRI LANKA, AND MYANMAR Hugh Curran, Professor of Peace and Reconciliation Studies Bangor Room, Memorial Union

Clickbait, Fake News and the Fourth Estate: Why Journalism is More Vital Than Ever Lecture by Jessica Contrera and Katie Mettler of The Washington Post. Followed by a Q&A and reception. Wells Conference Center Room 3 Organized by Josh Roiland, UMHC, along with the Honors College and CLAS, are contributing to this signature event supported […]

The Never-ending Popularity of Njáls saga: The Manuscript Evidence Lecture by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, an expert on the study of medieval manuscripts from the University of Iceland. Part of the UMHC 2016-17 symposium Saga and Story: An Interdisciplinary Exploration from the Vikings to Our Time. Little Hall 130

Checkout what our dance students have been working on this semester. 7:30 p.m. Minsky Recital Hall Admission: Free

“Space Travel in the Near Future,” a physics colloquium by University of Maine professor Neil Comins, author of the new book, “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists,” will be held at 3:15 p.m. March 31 in 140 Bennett Hall. More about the Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia Series is online.

Asteroid: Mission Extreme takes audiences on an epic journey to discover how asteroids are both a danger and an opportunity. The danger lies in the possibility of a cataclysmic collision with earth; the opportunity is the fascinating idea that asteroids could be stepping stones to other worlds — veritable way stations in space — enabling us to […]