UMaine Calendar

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

Take a fun and lighthearted look at the myths and stories associated with the constellation Orion, the great hunter of the winter sky. Orion comes to life in a fun-filled, animated accompanied by narrators Aesop the owl and Socrates the mouse as we follow Orion’s adventures as he grows to manhood, battles mythical beasts, foils […]

Experience the music of Fleetwood Mac in a whole new way — at the planetarium. Listen to classic songs like Rhiannon, Landslide, Go Your Own Way, and The Chain paired with striking visuals in the planetarium dome. Tickets are $9 for general admission. Music programs may contain explicit lyrics, and are intended for adult audiences. […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings […]

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

Cost: Free, registration required Via Zoom (link provided upon registration) Open to the Public Have recent dry spells and drought got you thinking about adding irrigation to your farm? This online webinar will cover some of the first things farmers should consider when getting started with irrigation. Topics Irrigation equipment options and considerations Assessing whether […]

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from the Collection  The Fractured Negative — Alastair O. Finlay (This exhibit ends April 21) Materiality — Stella Waitzkin (This exhibit ends April 21)  

This workshop will focus on using shared documents with students while having them work in breakout rooms to increase the quality of group work and subsequent class discussions. Additional features […]

The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine. A Career Q&A for graduate and undergraduate students will follow the talk. Virtual attendance: Complete […]

Registration deadline: 4 p.m. on Feb. 7 We offer our program fee on a sliding scale ($0-10) The growing season is short in New England, but techniques ranging from simple to ambitious can help extend it by weeks, months or even year-round. That could mean being able to grow crops you haven’t been able to […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

This event will take place on Monday, Feb. 7.  With only six degrees of separation, we are all connected. That means we, the performers, and you, the audience, are much closer than you think. On the stage, six envelopes contain six mysterious invitations for six strangers. The guests have arrived, but one is missing. What […]

Learn how to go from seed to salary with this course for all beginning farmers of all abilities interested in growing and selling their own farm produce. Using the “5 F’s” of farming risk (Farming, Family, Finances, Fitness, Future) as a guide, participants will acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully grow to […]

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

Take a fun and lighthearted look at the myths and stories associated with the constellation Orion, the great hunter of the winter sky. Orion comes to life in a fun-filled, animated accompanied by narrators Aesop the owl and Socrates the mouse as we follow Orion’s adventures as he grows to manhood, battles mythical beasts, foils […]

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from the Collection  The Fractured Negative — Alastair O. Finlay (This exhibit ends April 21) Materiality — Stella Waitzkin (This exhibit ends April 21)  

Improvements to Fresh Pack Lines for Quality and Food Safety Producing and marketing fresh-pack wild blueberries has numerous challenges including the use of specialized equipment, limited time for product harvest and processing, and issues of shelf-life and shrinkage, just to name a few. Hear from two growers and one food scientist (Dr. Jen Perry) about […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

Join Judaic Studies for an evening with former Maine poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum. The author of six collections of poems, Kestenbaum has also published and taught widely on the craft of making and creativity. On Feb. 8 he will speak on the Jewish influences on his poetry. Former US poet laureate Ted Kooser has written […]

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

Drop by for a casual “learn and connect” BioME Virtual Coffee Hour: Innovation and Insights on Feb. 9 from 10–11 a.m. Hear from Maine life science entrepreneurs, medical device manufacturers, digital health startup and academia to learn about some of the new and innovative technologies being developed in Maine and the collaborations formed to create […]

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from the Collection  The Fractured Negative — Alastair O. Finlay (This exhibit ends April 21) Materiality — Stella Waitzkin (This exhibit ends April 21)  

This event will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 9. Speaker: Dr. Patricia Wolf, Ph.D., RD About the Speaker: Dr. Wolf completed her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences with a focus on microbial sulfur metabolism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Dec. 2018. During her graduate training, she simultaneously completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics […]

The University of Maine will observe Black History Month with a series of events including the following: Jan. 27, 6–7 p.m. North Pod, Memorial Union: Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, Feb. 10 and 24, 5–6 p.m., Memorial Union, Room 314: Solidarity Meeting (BIPOC Support) Jan. 27, 4–5 p.m., Multicultural Student Center, Memorial Union: Resilience and […]

Language Tables will run through the Spring 2022 semester in 207 Williams Hall. Students, faculty members, and members of the community are invited to come and converse in an informal setting where all topics, big or small, can be discussed in the designated language. All levels of language ability are welcome. Tables meet weekly when classes […]

Language Tables will run through the Spring 2022 semester in 207 Williams Hall. Students, faculty members, and members of the community are invited to come and converse in an informal setting where all topics, big or small, can be discussed in the designated language. All levels of language ability are welcome. Tables meet weekly when classes […]

The University of Maine will observe Black History Month with a series of events including the following: Jan. 27, 6–7 p.m. North Pod, Memorial Union: Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, Feb. 10 and 24, 5–6 p.m., Memorial Union, Room 314: Solidarity Meeting (BIPOC Support) Jan. 27, 4–5 p.m., Multicultural Student Center, Memorial Union: Resilience and […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

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On Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m., Franco-American Programs presents a talk by Ray Lambert and Megan St. Marie titled "Pain at the Root: Le Grand Dérangement and Our Family History." Although most of their ancestors came to the United States from Québec, father and daughter Raymond A. Lambert and Megan D. Lambert St. Marie […]

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from the Collection  The Fractured Negative — Alastair O. Finlay (This exhibit ends April 21) Materiality — Stella Waitzkin (This exhibit ends April 21)  

Language Tables will run through the Spring 2022 semester in 207 Williams Hall. Students, faculty members, and members of the community are invited to come and converse in an informal setting where all topics, big or small, can be discussed in the designated language. All levels of language ability are welcome. Tables meet weekly when classes […]

Expanding in to Value-Added Products New products and new markets have been arising for a few years now among both large and small scale wild blueberry growers in Maine. This session will feature an organic wine producer, a farm that makes several dried fruit leather products, and a farm that makes dried wild blueberry powder, […]

The University of Maine will observe Black History Month with a series of events including the following: Jan. 27, 6–7 p.m. North Pod, Memorial Union: Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, Feb. 10 and 24, 5–6 p.m., Memorial Union, Room 314: Solidarity Meeting (BIPOC Support) Jan. 27, 4–5 p.m., Multicultural Student Center, Memorial Union: Resilience and […]

Honey Bee Diseases and Pests is geared towards beekeepers with a minimum of two years of experience. This two-session class will cover the major pest and disease threats to honey bee colonies and their management. Focusing on non-chemical and IPM strategies, students will learn the best management practices for all of the major threats to […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

Drs. Melissa Maginnis and Ben King present "COVID: Alpha and Delta and Omicron, Oh My!!" Drs. Maginnis and King will discuss the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Join Versant Power Astronomy Center to learn how viruses undergo changes that can result in new variants that impact the properties, alter the transmission and the course of disease.  The […]

The Department of Art is pleased to announce that this year’s faculty exhibition, Faculty 2022, will run Feb. 11–March 18 in Lord Hall Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Susan Smith and features works by Susan Groce, James Linehan, Ed Nadeau, Greg Ondo and Ellen Roberts, as well as artwork by the late Owen Smith. Lord […]

This interactive online professional development program will teach you the basics of seeing a grant through a full cycle, from inception to completion. You’ll learn how to get your organization ready to apply for grants, where to find funders and funding opportunities, how to write the components of a grant and how to submit a successful application that has all the information funders want to see.

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from the Collection  The Fractured Negative — Alastair O. Finlay (This exhibit ends April 21) Materiality — Stella Waitzkin (This exhibit ends April 21)  

This event will take place on Friday, Feb. 11.  Speaker: Clarissa Henry, Ph.D. Professor, School of Biology and Ecology, Director, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering About the Speaker: The goal of my research program is to understand how dynamic interactions between cells and their extracellular matrix mediate morphogenesis, and how disruption of cell-matrix interactions leads […]

This event will take place on Friday, Feb. 11 and alternating Fridays until April 22 at 2 p.m.  This is a collaborative, faculty-led, practically-oriented community focusing on fostering equity through developing our syllabi and engaging them meaningfully in class. In Spring 2022, the syllabus working group will focus on developing a sharable “equity starter pack” […]

The School of Biology and Ecology and School of Forest Resources present “Landscape ecology of defoliator outbreaks – unravelling the Gordian knot” with Dr. Brian Sturtevant, USDA Forest Service. Hosted by Andy Rominger, Assistant Professor of Ecological Bioinformatics and Aaron Weiskittel, Professor of Forest Biometrics and Modeling. Seminar will be hosted through Zoom. Email peggy.killian@maine.edu for event […]

Language Tables will run through the Spring 2022 semester in 207 Williams Hall. Students, faculty members, and members of the community are invited to come and converse in an informal setting where all topics, big or small, can be discussed in the designated language. All levels of language ability are welcome. Tables meet weekly when classes […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

From the dawn of time, African people have looked to the skies above for inspiration and guidance. Stargazers of Africa is a journey connecting the stars, moon and planets to the people across this great continent — from long ago to the stargazers of today. Experience African tales from the Yoruba people and a Nigerian […]

The UMaine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre presents Terra Nova on the Hauck Auditorium stage. Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of Ted Nally’s Terra Nova (directed by Julie Arnold Lisnet) blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of […]

This online professional development program presents an overview of sustainability from a business perspective and a hands-on action planning workshop.

The Zillman Art Museum presents the following art exhibitions: Circling Time — Deborah Dancy Valley Low — Jen Wink Hays Against The Grain — Woodcuts from the Collection Selections from […]

Join the Flowering in the North team for this series of webinars designed to help flower farmers prepare for a successful 2022 season. This 4-session series, held on the evenings of Feb. 28 through March 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will include presentations, Q&A, group discussion, and brainstorming opportunities. An additional in-person networking […]

The UMaine School of Performing Arts Division of Theatre presents Terra Nova on the Hauck Auditorium stage. Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of Ted Nally’s Terra Nova (directed by Julie Arnold Lisnet) blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of […]