University of New England - Innovation for a Healthier Planet

Truth in the Present Tense

Donna M. Loring Lecture

October 28, 2025

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford Campus

Join us for the 2025 Donna M. Loring Lecture "Truth in the Present Tense: Wabanaki Voices, Museums, and the Struggle against Erasure" featuring speakers Jennifer Neptune, Director of the Penobscot Nation Museum on Indian Island, and Betsy Richards, Executive Director of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. Learn More.

Open Educational Resources Opportunities at UNE

OER Workshop

October 15, 2025

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Zoom

Join UNE librarian Sonya Durney to learn more about Open Educational Resources! This workshop 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 OER. Wednesday, October 15Time: 2:00 [...]

Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In

Opening and Reception

September 25, 2025

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Celebrate Deaf Resilience and Creativity

October 25, 2025 - October 25, 2026

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

Work by artists of the Maine & national Deaf communities and photographs by Michael Kolster September 25, 2025-February 8, 2026 Unspoken Resilience celebrates Maine’s Deaf community through a group exhibition of work by Deaf artists and craftspeople, in conversation with Michael Kolster’s recent series of color photographs of Lewiston. The exhibit foregrounds American Sign Language and issues [...]

Tracing History: Village, Monastery, Campus

In honor of Indigenous People's Day we would like to share the digial exhibit Tracing History: Village, Monastery, Campus. This project begins with a land acknowledgement, and goes on to detail the evolution of the land which has become the UNE Biddeford Campus as settlements, a monestry, and several educational institutions. Based on research performed [...]

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 [...]