Carnegie Fellow
Nicole Dannenberg '96 of Sunnyvale, Calif., has been selected as an International Peace Junior Fellow by the Carnegie Endowment. She was one of 11 chosen from some 150 applicants representing the nation's top colleges. She will be a research assistant for a senior fellow at Carnegie and will work on the journal Foreign Policy.

Two Goldwaters
Heide Girardin of Jay, Maine, and Lisa Tinanoff of Unionville, Conn., both juniors, were chosen from a field of 1,200 candidates from more than 500 of the nation's colleges to receive Goldwater Scholarships. Among sister schools, only Wesleyan also can boast two such scholars. Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Tufts and Williams had one each.

Colby Chemists Invade
A huge Colby contingent invaded the national meetings of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans in March when 15 students and eight faculty combined to make a whopping 27 presentations. Students included majors in both chemistry and biology. We're pretty sure that no small college has ever been this broadly represented at a national science meeting.

Well, Well
Test wells in the basement of the new Olin Science Center are providing learning opportunities even before the facility opens--and some practical scientific application, too. When engineering consultants for the local sewerage district needed information on the water table to develop plans for a new sewer line in front of the campus, they called on Geology Professor Paul Doss who, together with Andrew Flint '96 (Catonsville, Md.), provided the data. Flint had been using the wells for his senior independent research project.

Our Best Face
The dying sugar maples and the completion of the Olin building have accentuated the need for landscape improvements along the central mall in front of Miller Library. Michael VanValkenburgh, chair of the Harvard School of Landscape Design, has been engaged to design a new mall plan that will include new terracing on the lower mall, new granite steps, a new stone seating wall in front of the library, lighting, and the replacement of trees with several different species. The work will be completed by this fall.

Colby Pride
Perhaps you caught the wonderful piece on Acadia, written by Michael Burke (English), in February's Yankee Magazine. . . . President Bill Cotter's essay supporting the tenure system, one of four pieces he has written on topics suggested by alumni, was reprinted in the January/February issue of Academe, the bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. . . . Sally Baker (communications director) wrote a piece for Down East magazine, reviewing a fascinating new chronicle, Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present, published by the University of Maine Press. . . . The National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Sandy Maisel (government) and Prof. Walter Stone of the University of Colorado a $175,000 grant to do an in-depth study of the U.S. congressional candidates in the 1998 election. The grant will provide resources for several Colby students to assist in the research. . . . Jane Moss (women's studies and French) has been elected to the executive committee of the Modern Language Association's division on Francophone literatures and cultures and to the MLA delegate assembly. She also serves on the editorial board of the American Review of Canadian Studies and is managing editor of the journal Quebec Studies. . . . See Tony Corrado (government) quoted and heard everywhere on presidential campaign financing. . . . Michael Donihue '79 (economics) has been invited by the Australian government to present his work on economic forecasts and macroeconomic policy in the U.S. at the Treasury Department in Canberra, the Federal Reserve Bank in Sidney, the Queensland Treasury and the economics departments of Australia National University, Flanders University in Adelaide and Griffith University in Brisbane. . . . Jim Fleming (science and technology) has been asked by the Smithsonian Institution to help commemorate its 150th anniversary. He has organized a session at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Baltimore this month on Geophysics and the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1996. . . . Cate Talbot Ashton '80 (associate director of career services) has been elected the next chair of the American College Personnel Association's commission for career development. . . . Fernando Gouvêa (math and computer science) and Colby have received a $24,000 supplemental grant from the National Science Foundation in support of Fernando's project on the arithmetic of modular forms and of diagonal hypersurfaces. The latest award brings the grant total for this project to $78,000.

Town & Gown
Paul Doss (geology) has received a grant from the Maine Campus Compact to fund a course that incorporates service-learning into an advanced environmental geology curriculum. The course will focus on geological assessment of the greater Waterville area, which can then be used in development, zoning and planning issues facing the city. . . . The Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission has hailed Don Allen (geology) for his volunteer work in providing interpretive materials on the park's geological history. Rowland Frazee and the late Edmund Muskie, chair and vice chair of the commission, credited Allen for expanding the understanding of the park's geology for the benefit of both the commission and future visitors. . . . Colby and Dex Whittinghill (math and computer science) have received a $23,600 grant from the Exxon Educational Foundation in support of a project titled Planning Regional Isolated Statisticians Meetings.

Moosecellaneous
There will be 14 candidates for tenure next year, 10 more in 1998, only five in 1999 and four in the year 2000. . . . The Colby crew team has a new shell, thanks to the Holiday Inn Corporation and Kevin Mahaney of Bangor. The new, eight-oar machine will be named, appropriately, The Holiday Inn.