Upcoming Science-related Events
Contact: Dave Munson at (207) 581-3777
Spring Fling Horse Show
The Maine Animal Club will be hosting the annual Spring Fling Horse Show on Sunday, May 7 at 9:00 A.M. at Witter Farm. The event will showcase the talents of both youth and adult competitors in a variety of categories, including showmanship, English and western pleasure, English and hunter equitation, reinmanship and pleasure driving.
UMaine Mechanical Engineering Technology Senior Design Exposition
The UMaine Mechanical Engineering Technology Program will hold its 2006 Senior Design Exposition on Wednesday, May 3, at 10:00 A.M. in the Machine Tool Lab.
Six student teams will show their capstone project designs built this past year. All designs involve new solutions to real problems. The projects include an improved student wheelchair with rear suspension, a computer workstation for person with dysautonomia, two magic growing Christmas trees for the Nutcracker ballet performance, a new modular engine dynamometer for laboratory use and a new computerized engine air flow bench for laboratory use.
Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium
The College of Education and Human Development’s Spring Research Colloquium continues with two additional events. The intent is to provide a forum for College faculty to share and discuss their research — planned, in process or recently completed — and to learn from each other.
The seminars are held from 2-3 p.m. on various Fridays in 159 Shibles Hall. Members of the campus community and general public are welcome to attend.
The colloquium series includes:
May 5 — “Growth rates in aerobic performance by children in grades 4-8,” Steve Butterfield, Bob Lehnhard, Craig Mason.
May 19 — “Comparing instructional modes: One element of physics education research,” Michael Wittmann.
Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Spring 2006 Hitchner Seminar Series
The Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Spring 2006 Hitchner Seminar Series includes two remaining events. The seminars are on fridays at 2:10 P.M. in 203 Hitchner Hall unless noted otherwise.
April 28
Craig Malbon School of Medicine SUNY/Stony Brook
“G proteins in Development: not getting “frazzled” about Frizzleds”.
May 5
Craig Montel The Johns Hopkins University Medical School
“TRP channels: roles in sensory signaling and in heath and disease”