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Browntail Moth Awareness Month: Free In-Person Workshop (Minot)

527 Center Minot Hill Rd. 30 North Maine Avenue, Minot, ME, United States

A free and in-person workshop will be hosted by the Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension on Feb. 18, 10:30 a.m.–noon. Rain/Snow date is the following Saturday, Feb. 25. Topics include hands-on learning about how to recognize and remove BTM. This workshop is an outdoor event; weather-appropriate […]

ARCSIM Research Data Security and Management Best Practices Seminar

Stodder Hall University of Maine

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1–2:30 p.m. ○ Stodder Hall, Room 48, and via Zoom. Join UMaine ARCSIM (Advanced Research Computing, Security and Information Management) and partners in a seminar from 1–2 :30 p.m. as speakers share their experience with sensitive data. We will also provide an overview of security resources and services that are available to […]

‘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 […]

Do Some Over-the-Counter Antimicrobials do More Harm Than Good? The Unexpected Cellular and Mitochondrial Toxicity of Triclosan and Cetylpyridinium Chloride (online)

Online

Speaker: Julie Gosse, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry, University of Maine. About the speaker: Postdoctoral training (2005–2007) Dartmouth Medical School.  Ph.D. (2005) Cornell University Gosse’s research interests include biochemical, molecular, biophysical and cellular toxicology and effects of toxicants on signal transduction pathways and mitochondria. About the seminar: A wide swath of humanity is exposed to high concentrations of […]

Introduction to R Programming Resources and High-Performance Computing at OSC (online)

Online

Friday, Feb. 24, Noon to 1 p.m. ○ Live via Zoom Join UMaine ARCSIM (Advanced Research Computing, Security and Information Management) and Ohio Supercomputing Center for an introductory webinar, as we discuss opportunities to enhance cloud-based research needs on campus. We will provide an overview of the HPC services that are available to UMS faculty, […]

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 […]

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