University of New England - Innovation for a Healthier Planet

Narrative Medicine & Visual Art: Opening Perception and Sharpening Observation for Health Professions Learners

October 8, 2025

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

Join us for a vibrant evening of art, conversation, and connection at the UNE Biddeford Campus Art Gallery! This interprofessional event brings together health professions students for a unique exploration of how visual art can deepen clinical observation and enhance medical understanding. Featuring: Sophie Hamacher, Artist & Filmmaker Dr. Andrew Eisenhower, Cardiologist Hilary Irons, UNE [...]

“Unspoken Resilience” at UNE Art Gallery

Unspoken Resilience Opening

September 25, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Join us fo the opening of an art show that corresponds with Deaf Culture Week and honors victims of Maine’s deadliest-ever mass shooting will open at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland on Sept. 25. Co-curated by Michelle Ames and Meryl Troop. Learn more. A reception for the show will be held from 5 [...]

Open Educational Resources Opportunities at UNE

OER Workshop

September 17, 2025

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Biddeford Campus, Ketchum Library

Join UNE librarian Sonya Durney to learn more about Open Educational Resources at either of two workshops! These workshops will introduce faculty to open textbooks – one type of OER, and the benefits these textbooks offer: affordability, pedagogical practice, student learning, and engagement. The workshop will also cover grant-funded opportunities to review, adopt, or create [...]

Your Vote 2025

National Voter Registration Day

September 16, 2025

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ripich Commons

Everything you need to know about voting in November's elections. Register to vote, ask questions about voting, or just grab a UNE Votes sticker. General Election Day On November 4th, registered Maine voters  will decide on two important statewide ballot questions, alongside numerous local elections and measures:  Question 1: Voter ID Requirement Would require voters [...]

New Faces, Same Expertise!

We welcome two new Research and Teaching Librarians, Karen Nelson and Izabella Botto to the Biddeford Campus Library! Karen Nelson Karen Nelson Karen joins us most recently from Muskingum University in Ohio after working as an academic librarian for the past ten years. Prior to that, Karen taught a variety of humanities classes at colleges [...]

20 Years of The Gathering of Writers

September 4, 2025

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Portland Campus

The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Gathering of Writers, a weekly creative writing workshop series, on September 4 at 6 p.m. in the Abplanalp Library on the Portland Campus for the Health Sciences. The event is free and open to the public. Since [...]

Activating the Labyrinth: A Performance for Two People in Three Parts

September 6, 2025

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

UNE Art Gallery Labyrinth

To celebrate the closing of our remarkable exhibit “An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary”, curated by Nelleke Mack, UNE Art Gallery Portland presents an outdoor performance by Elana Adler and Patricia Brace. Free and open to the public; refreshments served; rain date September 7th. Much like the Cottingley Fairies photographs that blurred the lines between fantasy [...]

Open Educational Resources Mini-Grants

This is the third and final year of mini-grant opportunities for instructors who participate in our OER initiatives, funded by an $80,000 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation, established by Stanton and Elizabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. Grant Opportunties Open Research Grant This grant opportunity supports faculty-led research [...]

An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary

Opening Reception

July 10, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Artwork from the Stephen K. Halpert Photographic Collection at UNE; curated by Nelleke Mack July 10 - September 7, 2025 Opening reception Thursday, July 10, 5-7 p.m. In 1917, two girls set off into the woods of West Yorkshire to make some magic. Elsie, aged 16, and Frances, aged 9, borrowed a quarter-plate camera to [...]

What Her Diary Reveals

"What Her Diary Reveals: Daily Narratives and Untold History" is the new exhibit in the MWWC's display case in Marcil Hall on the Biddeford Campus, created by Elia O'Hara (English and Political Science double major '25) in collaboration with Education and Outreach Archivist Cathleen Miller. The exhibit includes diaries from the MWWC's holdings from the [...]