Heather Leslie will be the featured “Chats with Champions” speaker at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 25 at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta. The director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center will draw on her research in Maine and Mexico to discuss how the emerging science of marine resilience is changing how people understand and […]
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This summer, the Lord Hall Gallery on the University of Maine campus will host exhibitions by two of Maine’s leading artists, both of whom live in Port Clyde. The Susan Groce and Antonia Small exhibits will be on display from July 24 through Sept. 22. A free public reception for the artists will be held […]
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University of Maine community members are invited to attend the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows Ignite Talks presentation July 24 at Hauck Auditorium. From 1-4 p.m., each of the 25 fellows will deliver a three- to-five-minute, TEDx-style presentation on a concept or topic. Subjects to be discussed include women’s empowerment, water quality and access, health systems […]
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The Associated Press reported on a new tool developed by University of Maine scientists that allows blueberry growers to learn how many bees they can expect to see around their fields. “BeeMapper” will be unveiled July 19 at Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro as part of the UMaine Cooperative Extension’s annual Wild Blueberry Summer Field […]
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Seacoast Online reported on the 11th Beaches Conference held in Wells and hosted by the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine. The conference, which is held every two years, was expanded this year to include New Hampshire, according to the article. “The focus of this conference is to bring the diverse […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor was included in a Bangor Daily News article about a recent study that found the city’s nonprofit art and cultural organizations in 2015 generated $10 million in economic activity and created hundreds of full-time jobs. The study, completed by the Washington D.C. lobbyist group Americans […]
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Damian Brady will deliver a talk titled “One if by land, two if by sea: Understanding how Maine estuaries are changing” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 21 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Seventy-five percent of Maine’s oyster harvest comes from the Damariscotta River. Brady will talk about […]
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The diversity of international tree species found throughout the University of Maine campus is highlighted in a new two-part self-guided walking tour. The “World of Trees” self-guided walking tour joins four others introduced last year, focusing on gardens, outdoor sculptures, the historic district and other distinctive sights in the UMaine landscape. The self-guided walking tours […]
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University of Maine community members are invited to join the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows for an international potluck and dance party on July 20. From 6 to 10 p.m., the fellows will join members of the local Women of the World (WOW) group and UMaine International Student Association (ISA) to host the public cultural exchange […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported University of Maine professors Kim Huguenard and Laura Rickard will talk about estuaries and storm surge at the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary in Mount Desert at 7 p.m. July 20. During “Sensing Storm Surge: A Citizen Science Approach to Measuring Storm Surge-Estuarine Interaction in Maine,” Huguenard, an assistant professor in ocean and […]
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