The Reaching the World campaign recently received a boost when The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Colby a $1.4-million grant to extend its teaching-research fellows program to a range of departments and programs in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies over the next four years. In addition the grant will help bridge retiring senior faculty with new tenure-track faculty by allowing outgoing and incoming faculty to work together over a two-year transitional period.
Read more online. As of December 31, 2007, the campaign total stood at $303.3 million, with $67 million left to raise to reach the goal, and the Colby Fund had raised $1.7 million at its halfway point in the year.
InsideColby, Colby's new admissions program using student-produced content, was featured on the
Boston Globe's front page Jan. 7—and it won a District 1 gold medal for recruiting packages from CASE (the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) the week before.
Ruth Jacobs (communications) told the
Globe: "We essentially decided to let Colby students do the talking. In the age of YouTube and Facebook, if we don't give it to them, they will find it themselves." InsideColby includes articles, photos, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and more.
See the Globe story online.
The men's Nordic ski team earned Colby's first-ever team win in a cross-country carnival race on Friday, placing four skiers in the top 10 of the 10K freestyle at Black Mountain in Rumford, Maine. Colby skiing competes in NCAA Division I. In the opening race the Colby men edged 2007 national champions Dartmouth while Middlebury was a distant third, but Dartmouth came back to win the carnival as a team
Read more online.
Colby faculty members from any discipline may have expertise that could shed academic light on a range of stories in the public eye. Now they can appear live on network television direct from the Lovejoy Building, thanks to a new video studio. Colby is only the second site north of Boston to have this capability, in which a
ReadyCam (video camera) is run remotely from Newton, Mass.
The Colby Eight marked its 60th anniversary Nov. 9-10, with more than 60 Colby Eight alumni in attendance. The reunion on campus culminated with a concert that featured alumni and student singers.
Watch a video clip of their performance.
With primary season in high gear, candidates are reaching voters in every way possible. But voters who don't appreciate phone calls can opt into the new
Political Do Not Call Registry, founded by
Shaun Dakin '89. "The beauty of the registry is that its use by political campaigns is strictly voluntary," according to a
blog on the USA Today Web site. "Without raising free-speech questions, it allows voters to serve notice that political calls could well backfire on the caller."
Would you like to play in a Colby-sponsored golf tournament with
President Bro Adams, alumni, parents, faculty, and friends of the College? This year's tournament will be Friday, June 6, during Reunion Weekend at the
Belgrade Lakes Golf Club. If you have not already joined Colby's golf mailing list,
join online to receive special communications about this event. Participants may enter as a team, or we will pair you with another player.
See more about the event. Early bird registration by May 2 is $125 per person; it’s $150 thereafter.
Colby's favorite holiday elf,
Allen LaPan (student post office), got his due this season—1,127 toys for needy children AND a feature story in the
Morning Sentinel about some of his legendary generosity. LaPan has collected more than 13,000 toys over nine years, also soliciting donations of books (to sell) and cold cash. He and co-conspirator
Carole Levine (bookstore) have already begun the 10th annual toy drive.
When the Mathematical Association of America posted its best-selling titles for 2007,
Math Through the Ages, by Carter Professor of Mathematics
Fernando Gouvêa and retired math professor
Bill Berlinghoff, topped the list. "The list is not alphabetical.
Math Through the Ages is our best-selling book," an MAA spokeswoman said. The 2004 volume tackles questions like "Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why?" in a style accessible to anyone curious about the history of mathematical ideas. The book is featured on the
MAA site and is available through the
Colby Bookstore.
Supporters of the Hathaway Creative Center, including Sen. Olympia Snowe, Gov. John Baldacci, and Colby President
William Adams, gathered Jan. 9 to celebrate its groundbreaking. The $15-million conversion and historic restoration of the former shirt factory into commercial and residential space was the vision of
Paul Boghossian '76. Colby has invested $1 million in the project, which Sen. Snowe called "a renaissance" for Waterville.
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