Lunchtime seminars begin
The environmental science/sustainability and biology programs at the University of Maine at Presque Isle will host a seminar series to present scientific research conducted by UMPI students and faculty, as well as other local and regional scientists.
Seminars will generally be held Thursdays from 12:15-1:30 p.m. in Folsom 201, unless otherwise noted. Faculty, students, staff and community members are welcome to attend these free sessions, bring lunch and join the discussion.
The series begins Thursday, Oct. 15, with David Putnam, professor of climate change and archaeology, on “Interdisciplinary Field Research in Mongolia: A Collaborative Approach.”
Other topics will include: Tuesday, Oct. 20, Elizabeth McLellan, president of Partners for World Health, “How to Make a Difference in our World Right Here at Home”; Oct. 29, Laura Wilson, 4-H/Cooperative Extension, on “4-H STEM Ambassadors — University Students Getting Local Youth Excited About Science”; Nov. 12, UMPI Professors Scott Dobrin, Larry Feinstein, Jason Johnston, Dave Putnam, Judy Roe and Chunzeng Wang, “Birds, Bees, Trees, and More!” including UMPI research; Nov. 19, Katherine Allen of Rutgers University on “Oceans, Carbon, and Climate: New Insights from Marine Microfossils”; and Tuesday, Dec. 8m “Aphid Populations and Potato Virus Y Transmission” by Jim Dwyer, Cooperative Extension entomologist.
Rematch: food fight
Northern Maine Community College and UMPI are in a food fight — a collection of food, that is, for Catholic Charities Maine. The event begins Oct. 16, which is World Food Day, and ends Nov. 6.
Last year the two institutions collected 1,536 pounds of food, and this year they are vying for bragging rights and the soup can trophy that will go to the winner of the second annual Food Fight.
At UMPI, there will be drop-off zones in the Campus Center and the Center for Innovative Learning. At NMCC, the drop-off zone will be in the Academic Success Center near the Christie Building lobby. All items donated will be weighed at the end of the event. Afterwards, all contributions will be donated to Catholic Charities Maine to help with hunger in the County.
Art on exhibit
The Reed Art Gallery will present Mutated Growth by Brunswick artist Jackie Brown from Oct. 14 through Nov. 20.
A gallery reception is planned Friday, Nov. 6 from 5-7 p.m., in conjunction with Presque Isle’s First Friday Art Walk. Brown will conduct an Artist Talk during the reception at 5:30 p.m.
Brown is a sculpture installation artist who relocated to Maine to teach at Bowdoin College in 2014. Mutated Growth is a rendering into imagined biological systems. “While each work is imaginative, the ideas that are central to the work reference real phenomenon and I hope to encourage viewers to consider the shifting nature of the world around them,” said Brown.
The Reed Fine Art Gallery is newly located in the Center for Innovative Learning, and is open Monday through Wednesday from 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday from 12-5 p.m., and Sunday from 5-10 p.m.
