In their annual report on the state of the state's economy, senior economics majors found that the loss of manufacturing jobs in Maine has slowed, but they see other uncertainties, including energy prices, clouding the state's economic horizons. The eight-page
Colby Economic Outlook, first published in 1989, disseminates students' research findings to policy makers in Maine and Washington, D.C. This year the report was presented by the class to Maine Governor John Baldacci on December 16.
Read the Outlook. Selected recordings of
Ernest C. Marriner's radio series "Little Talks on Common Things" have been digitized and compiled on six CDs that are catalogued in Miller Library and available for circulation via Maine Info Net. The longest continuously running radio broadcast in the nation under the same sponsor at the time it ended, "Little Talks" were broadcast weekly by WTVL from 1948 to 1982 and addressed a wide range of Maine-related topics. Ernie Marriner was an English professor for 31 years and also served as dean of men, dean of faculty, and College historian. The project to preserve and make available the recordings was funded by a grant from the Maine Historical Records Advisory Board with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The monologist who has been dubbed "the master storyteller" by
The New York Times and "a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black" by the
Seattle Times will hit the Colby stage this month.
Mike Daisey '96 is on campus to teach a Jan Plan course, Drama and Dance: Performing Stories, which focuses on the art of storytelling and impromptu autobiographical solo performance.
Read more about Daisey in Colby magazine.
The new Ang Lee film,
Brokeback Mountain, is being called a juggernaut after getting seven Golden Globe nominations and other kudos. The iconoclastic story of a decades-long love affair between two cowboys is based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winner
E. Annie Proulx '57 from her 1999 collection
Close Range. Read
Colby magazine's review of
Close Range, which included the O. Henry Award-winning "Brokeback Mountain,"
online.
On January 6,
Tom Tietenberg, the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, was named one of the first Fellows of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) for "outstanding contributions to environmental and natural resource economics." At a ceremony in Boston, Tietenberg was cited for his profound influence on the design and evaluation of most of the emissions trading programs now operating around the world, for his work with the World Bank training environmental economists from developing countries, for his 11 books and more than 100 published articles and essays, and for his textbook—the most widely used text in the field. Tietenberg was elected president of AERE for 1986 and 1987. See his
professional Web page.
The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston named Colby football coach
Ed Mestieri the Division II/III Coach of the Year. Mestieri was honored at a dinner on January 12 at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Massachusetts. Previously an assistant coach for the Mules for 15 years, he has a 13-3 record in two years as Colby's head coach, including a 7-1 record in 2005 and CBB championships both years.
Read more about the Gridiron Club honor.
Forty students arriving on campus for the first time this winter spent their first semester abroad—27 in Dijon, France, and 13 in Salamanca, Spain. Colby pioneered semester programs abroad for entering first-year students in 1982, offering students the option of earning a semester of credit abroad under the supervision of a Colby faculty member before coming to campus. Also arriving in February are four new first-year students, one exchange student, and five transfers.
To see what our readers want more of, Colby tracks the number of
Out of the Blue readers who click on each of the links in our newsletters. The most popular choices? Readers chose
photos from the Colbiana Collection, a
video of construction of the Colby Green,
reunion photos, and a Colby Echo
story on Rick Greenwood '05's graduation -- it appears our readers want visuals. This month we've posted some photos from the October 22-23 kickoff celebration for Reaching the World: A Campaign for Colby, including
photos from the dedication of the Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center.
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