The University of Maine will hold a free, public lecture examining the religious legacy of the Russian Revolution on its 100th anniversary. Theofanis G. Stavrou, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the lecture, “Revolution and Religion in Twentieth Century Russia,” at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Fogler Library’s University Club. Stavrou […]
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The challenges, perspectives and strategies related to the experience of death will be the focus of the 12th annual University of Maine Clinical Geriatrics Colloquium on Oct. 20 at the Wells Conference Center. “Emerging Perspectives on Death, Dying, and Bereavement” will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Speakers, panels and workshops will explore […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences will host a talk by Nancy Knowlton, the Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History on Oct. 20. Knowlton will present “Life on Planet Ocean — from DNA to #OceanOptimism at 11 a.m in 354 Aubert Hall. The talk will focus on […]
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The Faculty Senate Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee (PCRRC) will hold an open meeting on the proposal for reorganization of the Maine Business School from 3–4:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in Soderberg Lecture Hall, 116 Jenness Hall. PCRRC Chair Clayton Wheeler, professor of chemical and biological engineering, will host and moderate the meeting, and the […]
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It’s a story as old as humanity: the eagerness to trade the good things we have for what we think will surely be better. Composer Igor Stravinsky captured that age-old theme in “L’Histoire du Soldat” (The Soldier’s Tale), and Oct. 27–29, the University of Maine School of Performing Arts will bring it to the Cyrus Pavilion stage. […]
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The University of Maine will conduct its annual emergency communications system test on Monday, Oct. 16, complete with three outdoor sirens sounding for several minutes. The sirens are part of UMaine’s multifaceted emergency communications system established in 2007 that allows university safety and communications professionals to use several mechanisms to quickly communicate vital information to […]
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, Peace and Reconciliation Studies, and ESTIA invite the public to attend the fall conference, “Reclaiming a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence,” 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 16 at Buchanan Alumni House. Presenters include: Darren Ranco, George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research […]
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Conservation scientist Phillip Levin will give a free public talk titled “Integrating diverse perspectives to create conservation solutions that benefit nature and people” at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. The seminar, co-sponsored by the DMC and The Nature Conservancy in Maine, will focus on challenges […]
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More than 100 Bangor and Brewer area high school students studying advanced French and Spanish are expected to participate in World Languages Day Oct. 12 at the University of Maine. The annual event, offered by UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics, features immersion activities in French and Spanish, including a culture bowl, scavenger hunt, […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science and student chapter of ACM-W (Association of Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing) will present a talk by software engineer Becky Plummer on Oct. 12. Plummer will present “How my love of computer science blossomed as a Maine-iac and took me to London” from […]
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