Speaker: Tom Danielson, Aquatic Toxicology Unit, Maine Department of Environmental Protection Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals”, is a group of man-made chemicals that can be […]

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School invites you to our first ever Research Success Day! Please view our full schedule for details about each session, and then use the Google form to register. To view the schedule, click here.  To register, click here. 

Dr. Joshua Walton presents a series of public lectures on biblical archaeology, drawing on his experience in Israel.  Lectures will be live-streamed as well, click here.

This year’s lecturer is Susan Pinette, Professor of Modern Languages and Classics and Director of UMaine’s Franco American Program. Pinette will be discussing the long history of Franco American activism in Maine and the vital part that the university has played in that history. The talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion with longtime […]

This panel will bring together alumni from reunion classes with newer alums to contribute perspectives and advice for current UMaine CS students. Topics will include perspectives on career journeys, getting a first job, insights from those who hire, building a professional network, and building a professional career.

Learn about tools and strategies to help graduate students make their literature searches more efficient. These include strategic searching, organizational methods, and synthesizing information. For more information, click here. 

Speakers: Katie Swacha and Elizabeth Payne, UMaine Although the phrase “upta camp” might elicit memories of carefree fishing, swimming, hiking, and boating for many people in Maine, conserving the waterways where those activities take place can feel anything but carefree. Disagreements between waterfront property owners and other stakeholders concerning exactly what “conservation” means and how […]

  Embracing Differences, Empowering Discoveries: Tracing the Journey of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Fisheries Sciences Dr. Ivan Arismendi

Speaker: Lloyd Irland, The Irland Group Studying the winding course of Maine’s rivers over 5 centuries takes us through a series of distinct periods of history and engages multiple sciences.  It illuminates a fraught series of interactions between society and the rivers, often calling on images of a vanished “Golden Age”. The period imagined here […]

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is hosting an event discussing healthcare in Maine.  A WGS-Studies Healthcare Today in Maine will feature reflections from two physicians, a certified clinical ethicist, and the Community Engagement Coordinator at the Mabel Wadsworth Center. The speakers will be followed by a Q&A.   

Dr. Joshua Walton presents a series of public lectures on biblical archaeology, drawing on his experience in Israel.  Lectures will be live-streamed as well, click here.

Kate Dickerson and the design team of the Maine Discovery Museum in downtown Bangor will join the McGillicuddy Humanities Center to discuss the museum’s new River In My Backyard exhibit and the design process the team used to bring it to life. This presentation is part of the MHC’s River Symposium for 2023-24, and is the first presentation in that series. You're invited to […]

The Franco-American Centre will host an event with author Dana Murch on October 27 at 1 PM at Crossland Hall. The presentation, titled The French Connection: The Ancestors and Descendants of Daniel Thibodeau and Rebecca Jandreau, delves into some of the research Murch did on the life and times of Acadian and Quebecois families for his book […]

Dr. Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University, Montréal, will be giving a talk titled "The Histories We Inherit: Concordia's Reckoning With the Pasts of Its Founding Institutions." The event will be followed by a reception. A historian by training and a long-time leader in higher education in Canada, Carr returns to his alma […]

The talk will cover the ways in which television news evolved in the years that frame The Best of Enemies.  The play dramatizes the famous televised confrontation between William F. Buckley and […]