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‘Personalized nutrition and the human gut microbiome’ (online)

Online

Speaker: Dr. Merilee Brockway, Ph.D. RN IBCLC, University of Calgary About the Speaker: Brockway is a Ph.D prepared nurse and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with expertise in maternal-child health, infant feeding and patient engagement. She completed her Ph.D. in nursing at the University of Calgary, examining maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and infant feeding outcomes in moderate […]

Penobscot Sense of Place: An Exploration of Indigenous Landscapes in the Dawnland

Norman Smith Hall, Room 107, and Online University of Maine, Orono, ME

Speaker James Eric Francis Sr. is the Penobscot Nation’s director of cultural and historic preservation, Tribal historian and chair of the Penobscot Tribal Rights and Resource Protection Board. As a historian, Francis studies the relationship between Maine Native Americans and the landscape. All talks in the Mitchell Center’s Sustainability Talks series are free and are offered both […]

Danila Cannamela, ‘Italian Trans Geographies: Retracing Trans/Cultural Narratives of People and Places’

Williams Hall, Rm 120 Orono, ME, United States

UMaine welcomes Dr. Danila Cannamela from Colby College. Cannamela has published a book on Italian Crespucular poetry, The Quiet Avant-Garde: Crepuscular Poetry and the Twilight of Modern Humanism (U Toronto Press, 2019), and is now undertaking novel work in cultural studies related to gender and sexuality, geography, and gastronomy. She will discuss her current project, […]

The Vaginal Microbiome: Key for Women’s Health and Healthy Newborns (online)

Online

Speaker: Sarah Lebeer, Ph.D. About the Speaker: Sarah Lebeer is a research professor at the Department of Bioscience Engineering of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has studied bioscience engineering, with a specialisation in cell and gene biotechnology and food and health and obtained her Master’s degree at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2004. In 2008, […]

Brown Ash, Emerald Ash Borer Focus of March Webinar/Field Tour

Online

Webinar: March 1 1 Cat 1 SAF CFE eligible Field Tour: March 3, 9–1 p.m.  4 Cat 1 SAF CFE eligible Webinar and Field Tour Registration Register once for webinar series; field tours limited to 25 guests Panelists John Daigle, Tyler Everett, Emily Francis, Andy Shultz, and Mike Parisio will focus on species preservation goals […]

Undergraduate Responsible Conduct of Research Training Spring 2023 (online)

Online

The Office of Research Compliance will be offering online Responsible Conduct of Research training for undergraduate students on Brightspace from Wednesday, March 1, to Friday, March 31. Completion of this training is required for students participating in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and/or the U.S. Department […]

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