Events

The Office of Student Life is celebrating our first International Cultural Appreciation Day!

UMA will be promoting diversity institutionally but also fostering an atmosphere where our community can exchange different ideas and perspectives in a positive and meaningful way.
We are also looking for those in our community who would like to share their culture through things such as: Food, Music performances and/or videos, Dance performances and/or videos, Wearing or displaying their traditional clothing, Culturally-significant household objects, icons, family heirlooms, etc., Literature, and  Presentations (i.e. about your history, art, language(s), geography, etc.)

If you are interested in contributing to this event at the UMA Augusta campus, please let us know by filling out the form here. We will be accepting contributions until March 31st.

If students need funds for purchasing supplies in order to participate (such as ingredients), please reach out to the Office of Student Life for more information. There are some funds available to help support this endeavor.

This event is open to everyone and there is no RSVP required. Save the date and stop by the Fireplace Lounge on Thursday, April 18th between 11:00 AM-2:00 PM.

We look forward to seeing and learning more about what cultures UMA has to appreciate

FMI: umastudentlife@maine.edu or (207) 621-3374.

iGrad is the first of its kind in a financial wellness program. It was developed in collaboration with financial wellness experts led by a Ph.D. in Behavioral Economics. The goal is to help you understand - in simple, practical terms - the unique characteristics of your personality that affect your financial decision making.

Join Joyce Blanchard, Vice President for University Advancement for a demonstration of this resource. Refreshments are also provided for those that attend.

President Wyke will hold Open Forums this spring semester in February and April. The President's Open Forums provide an opportunity for updates and discussion on enrollment, budget, and other items of interest to the University community. The April forums will take place as follows: 

• Augusta - Randall Student Center Fireplace Lounge with live streaming - (https://maine.zoom.us/j/595663324) Wednesday, April 17, 2019
• Bangor - Eastport Hall 124 - Thursday, April 18, 2019

If you have a disability which would limit your participation in this event, please contact Renee Sherman at renee.sherman@maine.edu to discuss your specific needs. Please do so no later than 5 days prior to the event to allow adequate time for appropriate arrangements to be made.

The Augusta Student Government Association is hosting a Spring formal with the theme of "Under the Stars."
Come take your pictures at the photo booth and dance to the music brought to you by 92 Moose.

Light refreshments will be served.

Tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis. Current UMA students can pick up their ticket for FREE from the Office of Student Life located in Rm 204 of the Randall Student Center. Guest tickets are available for $5.

FMI: Contact the Office of Student Life at umastudentlife@maine.edu or (207) 621-3374.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate on either the Bangor or Augusta Campuses.

• Get a T-shirt!
• Get free lunch! 
• Get the personal satisfaction of making your campus shine!  
• Get a level 2 credit for CIGNA health insurance incentive (UMA employees only)! 

If you have access to yard and garden clean-up supplies such as gloves, rakes, pruners, etc., we encourage you to bring them with you for Vounteer Day. 

Details for Augusta:
9:00 am - Meet at Randall Student Center Cafe/Patio for your clean-up assignment.
11:30 am - Enjoy a community barbecue at Randall Student Center Cafe/Patio.

Details for Bangor:
(Bangor-only rain date: Tuesday, April 23)
11:30 am - Meet at Huskins Lounge in Eastport Hall for your clean-up assignment.
1:30 pm - Enjoy a community barbecue at Belfast Hall.

Questions?
Augusta Campus: Contact Renee Sherman at renee.sherman@maine.edu.
Bangor Campus: Contact Colleen Coffey at colleen.coffey@maine.edu.

Come join Jacob Albert as he presents “Beau-frog: The Art of Peter Archambault,” an exhibition of cartoon drawings, political commentary, Franco-American cultural exploration, and personal discovery by the late Madawaska, Maine native and former F.A.R.O.G. Forum staff artist, Peter Archambault.

Archambault developed the character “Beau-Frog,” in a creative re-imagination of the slur directed towards Franco-Americans. Beau-Frog has an array of adventures that help to illustrate some of the pressures of creating both a personal and cultural identity in the midst of an Anglophone majority.

Lunch at 11:15-11:45 and then talk from 11:45-12:45.

For more information, please contact: Chelsea Ray at 621-3487 or chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu.

Come for any portion of this event. No need to bring a potluck item if you are not able to—just bring yourself! This event is free and open to the public. 

UMA Health Equity Speaker Series

Health, Reproductive Rights and Justice with Abbie Strout, Director of Education and Community Engagement, Mabel Wadsworth Center

Hosted by Katherine Weatherford Darling, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Sponsored by the UMA Cultural Events Committee.

Health equity is a justice principle that means that everyone has a fair opportunity to be as healthy as possible. The Health Equity Speaker series aims to build an interdisciplinary campus community with a shared commitment to health equity in Maine. The events will bring together UMA students, faculty, staff and community members interested in ending health inequities.

LUNCH WILL BE SERVED.

RSVP via https://goo.gl/forms/6s4CGcc3PdwwuaX72 by Friday March 29th to reserve your spot for lunch, make disability access requests and receive the zoom link and background reading.

We aim to make this event as accessible as possible, please contact Katherine Darling with inquiries.

FMI: Contact katherine.darling@maine.edu or alicia.phillips@maine.edu 

The Augusta Student Government Association is excited to bring Neon Entertainment to do escape rooms on campus again this year. Themes include: School of Wizardry & Patient Zero Episode 2.

This event is FREE to all UMA students, Faculty and Staff.
Sign-up yourself or your team (8-10 people) in the Office of Student Life, RSC204 or by calling (207) 621-3374.

FMI: Contact the Office of Student Life at umastudentlife@maine.edu or (207) 621-3374.

The UMA Faculty Development Center is excited to announce a tool exploration series this semester. Every Tuesday at noon, we will host a 30-minute webinar in Zoom to explore a different academic technology and how it can be used by students and faculty to save time and improve learning. These sessions are free and open to any student, staff, and faculty at any UMA location. 

Please click on the link below to register for one of these sessions. You must complete the registration for each session you plan to attend. Sessions will also be recorded, so sign up to receive the link.


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Free Informational Lunch-In 
UMA Veterans and Caregivers Support Being Informed about Tobacco and Vape products

All UMA Veterans and their families are welcome! 

FMI: crystal.marable@maine.edu

In partnership with Healthy Communities of the Capital Area.

Denim Day 2019
As part of our commitment to Sexual Assault Awareness, we're asking our UMA community to wear jeans on Wednesday, April 25, as a visible demonstration of solidarity with survivors and to challenge the misconceptions that surround sexual assault and other forms of sexual harassment.

Background: In 1999, Italy's High Court overturned the rape conviction of a 45 year-old male driving instructor who had been taking an 18 year-old female on her first driving lesson. The court explained that since the victim wore tight jeans, she must have wanted sexual contact - they believed she would have had to have help to remove the jeans, thereby indicating consent. Enraged by the verdict, female Italian Parliamentarians protested by wearing jeans to work in solidarity with the victim. Over the last ~2-decades, Denim Day has become an international call to challenge assumptions about rape and consent, and protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual violence.

Donations: Voluntary donations will be accepted at the Randall Student Center Enrollment Center on the Augusta Campus and the Student Life office in Eastport Hall on the Bangor Campus. Students should check with their local Center for information on making a donation. Funds raised in Augusta and Bangor will be donated to the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which connects individuals to sexual assault crisis services state-wide, while many Centers will be accepting collections for their local sexual assault crisis response agencies.  

Whether or not you make a donation, please show your support by wearing jeans on April 25th!

FMI: Check out the Denim Day Website: http://denimdayinfo.org/

UMA Bangor's 2019 Spring Bash

Date: April 24th
Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm 
Place: Eastport Hall, Room 124 
Food: Pot Luck 

Bangor Retirements:

• Becky Fielder 
• Mary Louis Davitt

This is a Faculty & Staff event.
We hope to see you all there!

FMI: matthew.wilbur@maine.edu.

Party, Gender, and the Kavanaugh Nomination
A Research and Pedagogy (RaP) Presentation
by Associate Professor of Sociology James Cook

12-1 PM, April 24 2019
UMA Augusta (Jewett 124),
UMA Bangor (Lewiston 118),
and Zoom (join via https://maine.zoom.us/j/359725293 -- or call 646-876-9923 -- Meeting ID 359-725-293)

Abstract: On July 9 2018, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. On the morning of October 7 2018, newspapers announced Kavanaugh’s swearing-in as the newest Supreme Court Justice (Bowden, 2018). During the intervening weeks, concern regarding the future of the court and multiple allegations of sexual assault led to considerable discussion regarding the nomination. While some observers have asserted that reactions to the nomination were split along gender lines (Rhor, 2018), other observers claimed that positions were driven by party affiliation (Brady, 2018). Polling has indicated partial support for both claims among the general American public (Quinnipiac Poll, 2018).

In this presentation, I present and discuss research into gender and party patterns of discussion regarding the Kavanaugh nomination by state legislators on the social media platform Twitter during the fall of 2018. State legislators are interesting objects of study in this case because while being elected politicians associated with national political parties, they are free from the constraint of having to vote on the nomination. In this sense, they occupy a curious middle ground between federal politicians and members of the unelected public.

In my research, I pose the following questions:

RQ 1. Along lines of gender and party, which legislators spoke out on Kavanaugh and which remained silent?

RQ 2. Were patterns of support and opposition to the Kavanaugh nomination associated with gender, party, or both?

RQ 3. Did legislators change their positions as new information was introduced, or were legislators’ positions fixed across the period?

RQ 4. In discussing the nomination, were the information sources referred to by state legislatures characterized by difference or similarity across gender and party lines?

Results from a multi-state analysis of over a hundred thousand social media posts by state politicians will be presented, with time for discussion of the implications of findings.

Would like to practice your French in a comfortable environment? We hold a monthly French conversation table at UMA for students and community members alike. Come join us and practice your French! Beginners are especially welcome and we devote the first 15 minutes to you. Looking forward to seeing you there!  

• Wednesday, April 24th

All tables are held in Jewett 189 from 12-1pm.

All tables are free and open to the public.

FMI: chelsea.d.ray@maine.edu

Join the UMA Bangor Garden Club in Eastport 139 to learn how to grow peppers for the Chili Bed Battle (and/or your own gardens). Master Gardener and locally famous pepper grower Gordon Provost will be on hand to help us start pepper seedlings and teach us how to grow awesome peppers for our Chili Bed Battle!

Come by and learn more about growing peppers and other plants, how to set up grow lights for seedlings, to learn more about the Bangor Community Garden and the Garden Club! Or just come by to hang out and have breakfast with us!

This event is in conjunction with the Unstress Fest! Don't miss out on this and other great activities!

Learn more https://www.facebook.com/UMABangorGarden/

Join the Bangor SGA for some Food & Fun. UMA-Bangor Unstress Fest (Formerly known as SpringFest), will offer the following:
-Food from various restaurants from around Bangor.
-Laser Tag Course Set up outside of Eastport Hall
-Hover Ball/Archery skills game
-Maine Department of Transportation Texting & Driving Awareness Simulator
-Garden Club will have Master Gardener Gordon Provost visiting to teach about growing peppers for the Chili Bed Battle (Eastport 139 -- Art Room -- 9:00-1:00)

-Many...Many more games and offerings provided by Clubs and Departments around the Campus.

Please note that the event will be moved to the UMA-Bangor Fitness Center if inclement weather occurs.

Join the Bangor SGA for some Food & Fun. UMA-Bangor Unstress Fest (Formerly known as SpringFest), will offer the following:
-Food from various restaurants from around Bangor.
-Laser Tag Course Set up outside of Eastport Hall
-Hover Ball/Archery skills game
-Maine Department of Transportation Texting & Driving Awareness Simulator
-Many...Many more games and offerings provided by Clubs and Departments around the Campus.

Please note that the event will be moved to the UMA-Bangor Fitness Center if inclement weather occurs.

Graduate students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Maine will discuss their research and graduate school opportunities at UMaine. Biology majors/minors are invited to lunch with the faculty and speaker in 293 Jewett Hall following the lecture.

FMI: Contact Susan Baker, sbak@maine.edu

UMA Saco Center will be holding a Business Administration - Management and Accounting Information Session for anyone interested in learning more about these educational opportunities available in Saco

 Learn about program outcomes, as well as tuition costs and financial aid - including available scholarships for new and transfer students. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with program faculty and current students.

RSVP Today.

UMA String Quartet - directed by Linda Theriault
Envok - directed by Marcia Gallagher
Rock and Jazz Ensemble - directed by Scott Hughes

Free and open to the public. Children are welcome!

UMA undergraduates present their research in panels, roundtables, poster sessions, and so on. Sponsored by the UMA Honors Program.

FMI: robert.kellerman@maine.edu

Vintage Steel - UMA Community Steel Drum Band - directed by Christine Letcher
Tour Band - Jazz and More - directed by Duane Edwards

Free and open to the public. Children are welcome!

Come join the Augusta Student Government Association at the Spring Festival this year for a BBQ Lunch and snacks (Popcorn, Cotton Candy & Snow Cones) and a little bit of fun with the Mechanical Bull and music from 92 Moose.

This event is FREE for all UMA students, staff, and faculty. No RSVP required.

FMI: Contact the Office of Student Life at umastudentlife@maine.edu or (207) 621-3374.

The UMA Faculty Development Center is excited to announce a tool exploration series this semester. Every Tuesday at noon, we will host a 30-minute webinar in Zoom to explore a different academic technology and how it can be used by students and faculty to save time and improve learning. These sessions are free and open to any student, staff, and faculty at any UMA location. 

Please click on the link below to register for one of these sessions. You must complete the registration for each session you plan to attend. Sessions will also be recorded, so sign up to receive the link.


REGISTER NOW

Please join the Student Government Association in their January meeting, open to all.

At these meetings, we discuss what the SGA is currently planning in regards to the academic, social, and cultural events being held both on and off campus. If you have any concerns or issues related to campus, please bring them forward to the SGA. If you are interested in joining SGA but don't know what we do, attend our meeting to see how it all works.

We hope to see you there.

The University of Maine at Augusta is happy to welcome newly accepted students and their families to attend a fun-filled evening on campus to celebrate. This is a great opportunity to mingle with current students, faculty, and staff while also enjoying our beautiful campus. A cookout style dinner and dessert will be provided as well as family friendly entertainment and activities. 

Students can choose to attend Accepted Student Day on either our Augusta or Bangor campus. These events will take place on different days. 

RSVP at uma.edu/acceptedday by April 26th.  

More information TBA. 

Attend to learn how to access on-demand job interview training right in the comfort of your own home with the help of Big Interview!

Here are some of the features:

- Watch videos that cover all aspects of landing a job
- Access database of thousands of interview questions with tips on how to answer them in a variety of fields (jobs, industries, graduate school admissions, etc.)
- Record yourself answering interview questions and share them with others for feedback (Career Connections staff, UMA faculty/staff, anyone you want to share it with!)
**This workshop is only open to UMA students.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://maine.zoom.us/j/249097567

Or Telephone:

US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 408 638 0968
Meeting ID: 249 097 567

From a Polycom or other H.323 room system that is not a member of a video conference, click call on the remote and dial one of the following IP addresses followed by # the meeting ID and # again:
162.255.36.11 (US East)
162.255.37.11 (US West)
Meeting ID: 249 097 567

Please call your campus Help Desk if you need assistance.

The University of Maine at Augusta is happy to welcome newly accepted students and their families to attend a fun-filled evening on campus to celebrate. This is a great opportunity to mingle with current students, faculty, and staff while also enjoying our beautiful campus. A cookout style dinner and dessert will be provided as well as family friendly entertainment and activities. 

Students can choose to attend Accepted Student Day on either our Augusta or Bangor campus. These events will take place on different days. 

RSVP at uma.edu/acceptedday by April 26th.  

More information TBA. 

More information TBA. 

This program honors student achievements in academic scholarship, service, leadership, and athletics. A reception will be held at the conclusion of the ceremony in the fireplace lounge of the Richard J. Randall Student Center.

FMI: Contact Sheila at crowley@maine.edu.

More information TBA. 

Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Please join us for a dessert banquet followed by a Hall of Fame award induction ceremony at the UMA Augusta Campus. We will be recognizing four student-athletes: Chris Blodgett, Tristan Starbord, Katie Poirier, and Jon Schlenker.

Wednesday, May 8th 2019, at 6:00 pm
Randall Student Center, Fireplace Lounge

To RSVP: brendan.gilpatrick@maine.edu 

FMI: jane.smith@maine.edu

More information TBA. 

You are Invited! Beyond Borders: Final Student Presentations

Please join us at UMA Rockland for the final student presentations on the 9-credit Yucatan travel course which took place this spring term.

Potluck lunch will happen at noon, followed by panels of students presenting from 1:00 - 5:00PM on "Mayan Spaces", "Mayan Family Life", "Mayan Culture", "Mayan Practices", and "Ancient and Contemporary Ceramics on the Yucatan Peninsula."

Hearing these students' stories may inspire you to participate in UMA's study abroad experiences! 

Commencement Information

More information TBA.