Science doesn’t stop in Maine. Our partners have a number of public science events coming up in June. See what’s happening near you and remember that #scienceiseverywhere.
Challenger Learning Center of Maine, 30 Venture Way, Bangor, ME More information: http://challengercamp.weebly.com/summer-2016-camp.html
The Telephone Museum
June 18, 1:00-4:00pm. Exhibit opening, The First Hackers: Phone Phreaks vs. Ma Bell 1955-1970. A new exhibit that reveals what happened when a group of young, curious, inventive teenagers and outlaws discovered the secret doorways into the “world’s largest machine” – the Bell System Long Distance network. Inspired by Phil Lapsley’s popular book, Exploding The Phone, and displayed in the new Visitor Center the exhibit will take visitors on a journey that features not only the hackers, but also offers hands-on opportunities to play with the technology the phone phreaks exploited. Visitors are welcome at the exhibit’s opening on June 18 at 1:00 PM, when Mr. Lapsley will give a talk about the first hackers, followed by book signing until 4:00pm. Copies of Exploding The Phone will be available for purchase.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children
The Telephone Museum, 166 Winkumpaugh Road, Ellsworth
The Bar Harbor Club, Bar Harbor
June 15 – planetarium program Cosmic Colors: An Adventure Along the Spectrum! June 22 – planetarium program Earth, Moon and Sun June 29 – planetarium program Undiscovered Worlds
Tickets for planetarium programs are $6 for Adults, $5 for UMaine Students/Veterans/Senior Citizens, and $4 for children under 12.
Emera Astronomy Center, 167 Rangeley Road, Orono
June 21, 7:00pm, Maren Auditorium. Cserr Lecture: Cellular Recycling in Aging and Disease: The Importance of Taking Out the Trash, Malene Hansen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, SBP Medical Discovery Institute. Hansen is using the roundworm, C. elegans, to study how evolutionarily conserved (basically unchanged throughout evolution) genetic pathways and processes modulate aging. She is focused on the role of autophagy, a cellular “recycling” process for damaged proteins that has been linked to age-related diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The 22nd Cserr Lecture is given in memory of Helen F. Cserr, Ph.D., a distinguished scientist and researcher who worked at the MDI Biological Laboratory for 20 summers. Cserr used marine models to study the blood-brain barrier.
June 27, MDI Science Café – Should We Clone the Woolly Mammoth to Protect the Tundra from Climate Change? Kinne Library, MDI Biological Laboratory. Jacquelyn Gill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology, with a joint appointment with the Climate Change Institute and the School of Biology and Plant Ecology at the University of Maine. Doors open at 4:15 pm to view the 2016 exhibit A Fresh Field of Life: Artists, Naturalists and the Vision for Acadia.
June 30, 7:00pm, Maren Auditorium. Kinter Lecture: Living to be 150: How Soon? How Desirable? Steven N. Austad, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad studies many aspects of the biology of aging, from molecular processes to lifespan differences across species. He is especially interested in long-lived organisms such as the ocean quahog, a clam found off the coast of Maine that can live for 500 years or more. “They’ve sitting out there on the ocean floor since Shakespeare was born,” he notes. His interest in biology was awakened by a job training lions for the movie industry. The 34th Kinter Lecture is given in memory of William B. Kinter, Ph.D., an investigator at the MDI Biological Laboratory from 1963 until his untimely death in 1978. Kinter’s interest in the effect of toxic compounds in the environment led to landmark papers on the effect of pesticides on eggshell thinning in birds.