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This event is sponsored by Student Engagement & Inclusion

For a complete schedule please visit: https://machias.edu/campus-life/student-engagement/homecoming-family-weekend/

This event is sponsored by Student Engagement & Inclusion

For a complete schedule please visit: https://machias.edu/campus-life/student-engagement/homecoming-family-weekend/

This event is sponsored by Student Engagement & Inclusion

Classes are cancelled for Fall Break.

Campus is closed for Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Classes are cancelled for Fall Break.

The 7th annual Roque Island Lecture on Environmental Conservation will be presented on Wednesday, October 16th at the University of Maine at Machias. Mr. Eric Venturini will present a lecture “Bees And Blueberries: Where Does It Go From Here?” Eric described this topic by saying, "First managed by the Wabanaki people, wild blueberries are vitally important to Maine's culture and economy. To produce fruit, the crop requires bee pollination. Considering declines of some species of native bees, fewer honey bee colonies being rented by growers, and recent drops in market prices, where does it go from here?" The lecture, sponsored by the Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative and the University of Maine at Machias, will be presented at 11:00am in room 102 of the Science Building at UMM. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Eric is a Pollinator Biologist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and a Partner Biologist with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, working to increase awareness and capacity for pollinator conservation in New England. He works with farmers, and collaboratively with government, University, and non-government organizations to create and support efforts that help pollinators help farmers. Eric earned his graduate degree from the University of Maine, where he worked with his advisor and role model Dr. Frank Drummond studying pollinators and wild blueberries. Eric’s career has focused on the intersection of pollinators and agriculture for almost a decade.

For more information: Ellen Hostert, 255-1301

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