2013     

All are invited to the 11th Annual Lecture in Biology

Thursday, April 18, noon - 1:00pm

138 Randall Student Center, Augusta Campus

This lecture will be broadcast live to the Bangor Campus. Room TBD

Speaker:  Dr. Dorothy Klimis-Zacas.   

Lecture Topic: Slow Food and Its Health Benefits-----From Farm to Healthy Body. 

The lecture is followed by a luncheon for BA Biology majors with the science faculty.

2012

Speakers:  Christopher Lage, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology & Peter Milligan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology 

Topic:  Effects of Turkeys on Maine Agriculture

2011

Speaker: Kenneth Lombard, MD.

Topic:  Chiildhood Obesity.

Watch Dr. Lomabard's lecture.

2010

Speaker: David W.Towansend, Ph.D., Professor of Oceanography, University of Maine

Topic: Red Tide and its Effect on Maine's Shellfish

2009

Speaker: Dr. Robert Steneck, University of Maine professor of oceanography, marine biology, and marine policy

Topic: Brave New World: Global climate change, fishing and the future of our blue planet 

2008

Speaker:Dr. Stephen Sears, MD, Vice President of Medical Administration at Mercy Hospital

Topic: Superbugs: The Problem of Drug Resistant Bacteria

2007

Speaker: Laurent Beauregard, PhD, Associate Director of the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health

Topic:Cancer Families: The Influence of Genetics on Cancer Risk

2006

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Pelletier, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist Maine CDC

Topic: Pandemic Influenza

2005

Speaker: Brian Kramer, PhD, Research Associate Robert Woods Johnson Medical School

Topic: Stem Cell Research and Parkinson’s Disease

2004

Speaker: Dr. Margaret Greenwald, MD, Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maine

Topic: Forensic Science in Maine: The Role of the Medical Examiner

2003

Speaker: Dr. Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPH, Maine Director of Public Health

Topic: Emerging Issues in Biology; Terrorism and Obesity!