With his vast experience in the health care sector, as a senior officer at one of the country’s largest providers of pharmaceutical and basic health care services and as a professor at both Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Brennan will address how the COVID-19 pandemic might change the future delivery […]

A look at a local sea farm’s effort to diversify the marine economy in a changing world. Shey lives on Islesboro with her husband, Josh, and two children. Together they own and operate Islesboro Marine, a full-service boatyard that diversified into aquaculture in 2016 growing Marshall Cove Mussels. Shey came to Islesboro in 2002 as […]

Blue, a new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson that had its premiere at The Glimmerglass Festival last summer, centers on the hopes and fears of a young Black couple as they raise a son in 21st-century America. Reflective of a tragically familiar headline, the story follows the father — a police officer — […]

REGISTER NOW! Master Maritime Navigator and Hōkūle‘a Captain, Bruce Blankenfeld will discuss ancient Polynesian navigation techniques, the perpetuation of these, and the Hōkūle‘a's "Mālama Honua" (the recent worldwide voyage in traditional voyaging sailing canoes). Captain Blankenfeld serves as PWO Navigator and crew training coordinator for the World Wide Voyage. He is employed as a foreman […]

REGISTER NOW! Will your next cell phone or solar panel contain heavy metals from the seafloor? Could strange life in the deep sea contain the genetic blueprint for a new blockbuster drug or industrial enzyme? Join Dr. Beth Orcutt for an introduction to the vast and diverse underbelly of life on Earth found deep in […]

REGISTER NOW! In this talk, which will be dedicated to the memory of Richard Gilder, Dr. Jim Basker will present 6 or 7 moments in American history that were shaped by the African American presence, often in unexpected or forgotten ways. The focus will be on key documents, from a rare printing of the Declaration […]

National parks were originally established with the goal of preserving resources as they were in the past. That goal is no longer feasible. Dr. Miller-Rushing will describe how national park managers are adjusting their approach to manage for change and the science they are using to inform their decisions. He will specifically talk about work […]

The quest to understand the human brain in health and disease is a grand challenge for the 21st century and beyond. This talk will focus on the cerebral cortex, which is the dominant structure of our brains and largely responsible for what makes us unique as a species and unique as individuals—each with our distinctive […]

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