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The Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Arts and Sciences will host a Connections Lecture on April 9, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. in the St. Francis Room on UNE's Biddeford Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
 

The Connections Lecture series brings leading thinkers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to campus to speak across disciplines about curiosity and the breadth of liberal arts education. Built into UNE's Core Curriculum, the series challenges students to build a community that interrogates ideas beyond the classroom and to bring these conversations back to their disciplines. The lectures create a space where conversations between different fields of study intersect, sparking dialogues that bring the curriculum to life.
 

The lecture will feature Professor Emeritus Tom Wessels, Ph.D., an engaging speaker and exemplar of interdisciplinary scholarship. His work merges ecology, geology, entomology, plant pathology, climatology, history, and more to tell the story of the New England environment, revealing what is right in front of us, hiding in plain sight. His work is relevant to anyone interested in the natural environment, New England's landscape, or the connections between scientific disciplines and human history.
 

Wessels is the author of several books including "Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England," "Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape," "Granite, Fire, and Fog: The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia," "New England's Roadside Ecology," and "The Myth of Progress."