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April 2021
Research Impact Challenge
The Research Impact Challenge is a professional development opportunity to help researchers better understand and manage their online scholarly presence, as well as consider ways to describe the impact and reach of their work. Each day for five days during Maine IMPACT Week, participants will receive an email with a suggested task designed to build and curate one’s scholarly profile, measure the impact of one’s research, and/or promote one’s work to reach new audiences. Activities vary, but typically take anywhere…
Find out more »Essentials of Grant Writing (online)
Learn the essentials of grant writing! Grants keep your organization strong, but they are challenging to write well. Designed for nonprofit staff and volunteers new to grant writing, this five-day interactive online grant writing program provides participants with a roadmap to navigate grants, including planning, securing, and management.
Find out more »Past Trauma, Current Relationships: Integrating Nonviolent Communication and Interpersonal Neurobiology (online)
Program description The goal of this lively, interactive Nonviolent Communication program is to explore how early life experiences, including traumas such as adverse childhood experiences affect how we relate to people now. Participants will gain clarity about how the brain responds to challenging situations and will experience new insights into choices leading to authentic honest relationships. Program dates and times A five-part program: Monday, April 12–Friday, April 16 9–11:30 a.m. (with breaks) Modality This dynamic online program will be offered…
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 »Presentation: Building with Structural Round Timber (online)
Link to event flyer. The presenter will be Amelia Swan Baxter from Whole Trees Structures in Madison, WI.Here bio is below. Amelia Baxter believes that the 21st century built environment is filled with opportunities for trees. Baxter co-founded WholeTrees in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of waste-trees in commercial construction, increasing forest revenues, and offering green construction markets a new material for the 21st century. Amelia has led project teams in over…
Find out more »Pathways to Commercialization of Medical Products or Devices (online)
Speaker: Michael Mason, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine. About the Speaker: Dr. Mason is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering. Dr. Mason’s research focuses on understanding and utilizing physical properties that are defined at the single molecule or nanoscale to develop new materials and technologies which utilize them. Dr. Mason earned undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Physics…
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 »Jack Pine Project Presentation: Results of Pandemic-Related Workshops (online)
Two Maine music therapists and a Maine-based theater producer and director will present the results of their pandemic-related workshops on April 16 and April 23 as part of the Jack Pine Project, a community arts project organized by the Maine Folklife Center, Maine Studies Program and Hutchinson Center at the University of Maine. The first talk on April 16 will feature music therapists Carla Tanguay and Kate Beever, who conducted separate workshops that taught nonmusicians how to express their thoughts…
Find out more »4th Annual Maine Cattlemen’s College (virtual)
The Maine Cattlemen’s College will provide up-to-date information to Maine beef cattle producers and allow Maine beef cattle producers an opportunity to meet leaders in the industry and fellow producers to share ideas and innovations. All proceeds to benefit the Maine Beef Producers Association, Scholarship Fund. Register here.
Find out more »Transitioning from College to Professional Journalism (online)
Talk by Nina Mahaleris (UMaine CMJ alumna) as part of the Department of Communication and Journalism's Spring 2021 Colloquium Series. Email Laura Rickard for Zoom connection information.
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