Show Their Stuff
Ask Michael Branca '96
(Milton, Mass.) to describe his work and his eyes brighten.
He holds up a sculpture formed from a discarded telephone receiver and a wine
jug covered with a thick layer of wax. It looks like the head of a creature
from Star Trek. "I'm sort of into this decapitation thing," he said with
a wry grin, which explains the nearby sculpture of a head with a noose around
it inside a makeshift cage and the large painting of a man brushing his teeth
while holding his head in his left hand.
Getting Personal
When Colby announced several months ago that its Internet server would be
made available for students to create their own personal pages on the World
Wide Web, some were skeptical about what it would spawn. Would it be drivel or
something useful?
Continuing a string of 26 years in which at least one Colby student has been
awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Jill Picard '96 of Peterborough, N.H.,
carries on the tradition. Picard's one-year fellowship will provide funding her
research on women in agricultural areas of Jamaica. "The ultimate goal of the
year [abroad] is to understand the unrecorded roles that women play, as well as
their needs and demands," Picard said.