University of New England

International Spotlight Series set for Spring
The Spotlight Series features areas throughout the world where people from the UNE community have lived, traveled, and studied. The first is:

Spotlight on Norway
Monday, February 20, 2006, Noon Ketchum Library, St. Francis Room, University Campus
Presented by Professor Jeri Fox, Pete Strenross and Bill Vasey
FMI: 207-602-2461
Lunch will be served.
A complete list of events in this series.

Seeds of Peace Camp Director to discuss program
Seeds of Peace Camp Director Tim Wilson, will speak about the world-famous camp, located in Otisfield, Maine, at noon on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 in Alfond 205 at the University of New England in Biddeford. This lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Campus Diversity Club and the Emerging Leaders Program. More information.

UNE Hosts Portland Chamber Music Festival Concert
The Portland Chamber Music Festival’s spring concert features performances of works by Mozart, Kodály and Shostakovich on Friday, March 3, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. at Ludcke Auditorium at the University of New England’s Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland.

Admission is free for UNE students, faculty and staff members with I.D., as well as anyone age 21 and under. General Admission for all other adults is $10 at the door. More information

"UNE Authors and Notes" - a series of talks and readings by University of New England faculty highlighting their writing and books - will be held this spring 2006 at the University Campus, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford.

The first of the series will be Feb. 17th featuring David Sandmire, M.D., associate professor, Department of Biology, and David Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of Physiology/Pharmacology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, who will speak about their book Medical Tests that Can Save Your Life: 21 Tests your Doctor Won't Order Unless You Know to Ask.  More information.


Evolutionary biologist David Lahti to speak
on evolution and morality
Evolutionary biologist David Lahti, Ph.D., will deliver a lecture on "'The Better Angels of Our Nature': Evolution and Morality" on Feb. 21, 2006 at 6 p.m. in the St. Francis Room of the Ketchum Library, University Campus. More information.

Poet Megan Grumbling to give reading at MWWC
As part of the University of New England’s Maine Women Writers Collection’s Spring 2006 Event Series, poet Megan Grumbling will give a reading on Thursday, March 2, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. at the MWWC Sarton Room, Josephine S. Abplanalp ’45 Library on the Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens Avenue in Portland.

A 2004 winner of the Robert Frost Award and 1999 winner of UNE’s Bluestocking Award, Grumbling’s latest work is Booker’s Point, a book-length portrait in verse about a quintessential Maine codger, selections of which appear in the January 2006 issue of the famed Poetry Magazine. She is currently working on a collection of poetry titled Animal Lust, three poems of which will be presented in the spring issues of Seneca Review and Passages North.
More information

Experience UNE Days
The Admissions Office would like to announce the dates for our Spring 2006 Experience UNE Days. These student programs will provide opportunities for prospective students and their families to meet UNE administrators, current students, faculty and staff in an interactive environment.

Dates: Saturday, March 25, 2006 and Sunday, April 9, 2006

Preliminary Schedule
7:30 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m.- 9:15 a.m. Welcome
9:30 a.m.- 10:50 a.m. Session I
11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Lunch and Department Fair
1:10 p.m.- 2:20 p.m. Session II
2:25 p.m.- 3:35 p.m. Session III

Please direct any questions about the day or any questions from incoming students to either Pete Heeley or Janicanne Shane in the Admissions office.

Art Gallery Presents "The Holga Show"
The University of New England's Art Gallery presents "The Holga Show," six photographers' work with the Holga camera, on the University's Westbrook College Campus in Portland from Jan. 26 through March 5, 2006.

The second conversation with the artists will be held on Feb.  22 from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. More information.

Art Gallery to host Student and Faculty Exhibition
The First Annual Student and Faculty Exhibition will be on view March 9- 26, 2006 at the Art Gallery on the Westbrook College Campus, Portland. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 9th from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

This exhibition marks a new era in the development of the Visual Arts at the University of New England. Works of art in a variety of media by students in the University’s art courses, as well as works by faculty, will be mounted in the gallery.  Art Gallery website.

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