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March 2021
The Wolves (on-demand video rental)
The UMaine School of Performing Arts's Division of Theatre will present its first performance of the Spring 2021 season via on-demand video rental, March 5-14. Pre-sale tickets are available now. The Wolves, written by Sarah DeLappe (and directed by associate professor Marcia Joy Douglas), centers on the experiences of a high school girls' soccer team through their weekly pre-game warmups. The play was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2017. For more information, or to pre-order your rental, visit showtix4u.com/event-details/46822 Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls'…
Find out more »Racial Equity, Implicit Bias and Diversity Training (online)
This online professional development program is designed to further your understanding of racial equity, diversity, and implicit bias. If you want to understand how you, your business, organization or school can do better, this is the program for you!
Find out more »Spring Writing Group (online)
This semester's writing group will meet Tuesdays Noon-1:30 p.m. and Fridays 9-10:30 a.m. through the semester, whichever time works for you. Join anytime by registering at this link: forms.gle/TRXVRfMvBw4zjjNS8.
Find out more »Faculty 2021: Featured Art Faculty Exhibition
Lord Hall Gallery will present "Faculty 2021: Featured Art Faculty Exhibition," which will run from Feb.12 to March 12. It features work by Susan Camp, Wayne Hall, Samantha C. Jones, Andy Mauery, Robert Pollien, Matt Smolinsky and Giles Timms. The Gallery is open to the public, weekdays 9–4 p.m. Hand sanitizer is available, signs encouraging social distancing and occupancy limits are posted.
Find out more »The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneeering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (online)
National Archives Museum Online Register View on YouTube In the mid-19th century, it was an unheard of notion for a woman to study medicine, but in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined by her younger sister, Emily, and together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. In The Doctors Blackwell, Janice P. Nimura presents the story of these pioneering sisters…
Find out more »Building Intergenerational Resilience — A Collaborative Community Effort (online)
Speakers: Janice L. Pelletier, MD, FAAP with Jennifer Curran Ph.D, and Mary Tedesco-Schneck, Ph.D., RN, CPNP. About the speakers: Janice Pelletier is a pediatrician, teacher, researcher, and advocate in this community for over 3 decades. She helped to develop and co-teach at the University of Maine a novel course, called “Introduction to Health Professions.” She is a Board member and Past-President of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Colleagues in the project to build intergenerational resilience include…
Find out more »The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and How Physicists Can Help Reduce It) (online)
The Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a talk by Laura Grego, Senior Scientist, Research Director and Acting Co-Director of the Global Security Problem at the Union of Concerned Scientists, on Friday, March 5 at 3 p.m. Grego's talk, "he Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons (and how physicists can help reduce it),: will explain the current nuclear crisis, provide feasible remedies and introduce a new project sponsored by the American Physical Society to help physicist once again get involved…
Find out more »Building Intergenerational Resilience — A Collaborative Community Effort
Speakers: Janice L. Pelletier, MD, FAAP with Mary Tedesco-Schneck, Ph.D, RN, CPNP. About the speakers: Janice Pelletier is a pediatrician, teacher, researcher and advocate in this community for over 3 decades. She helped to develop and co-teach at the University of Maine a novel course, called “Introduction to Health Professions.” She is a Board member and Past-President of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Colleagues in the project to build intergenerational resilience include Dr. Jennifer Curran, a psychologist…
Find out more »Coffee Hour (online)
Coffee Hour is on Fridays, the event is host by ISA or a partner on campus. This is held over Zoom and there may be a limited attendance. https://umaine.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c1654301d5a98a9274b3f14f2&id=a97e9c5146&e=8113598c18
Find out more »The Sun — Our Living Star
The sun has shone on our world for four and a half billion years. The light that warms our skin today has been felt by every person who has ever lived. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The passage of the sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was the only way to keep track of…
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