Colby Magazine, Fall 2002

	A Children's Crusade Ushari Mahmud, the 2002 Oak Human Rights Fellow, works for victims of slavery, incarceration and child soldiering.

	For Art's Sake Dan Rosenfeld takes over as director of the Colby Museum of Art, and he's ready to spread the word about the museum and its collection.

	A Posthumous Lovejoy Award Daniel Pearl, murdered while reporting for The Wall Street Journal in Pakistan, to receive the 2002 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award.

	Words for the First-Years President William D. Adams on Colby as a civil community.

	All That Remains Forensic scientist William Haglund looks for evidence of genocide.

	Environmental Honor Governor Angus King lauds Colby for its environmental efforts.

	Rewards for Research Colby faculty a magnet for research funding.

	Plumbing the Depths Colby scientists team up to study the Belgrade Lakes.

	A New Mule in Town Colby's new official mule.

	Wit and Wisdom What we said and where we said it.

Faculty in a variety of departments have won grants from foundations to expand their research. Since last spring the following professors have received grants for these projects:

Lynn Hannum (biology), $50,000 from The National Science Foundation for her project on enhancing opportunities for undergraduate learning in immunology (September).

Duncan Tate (physics), $200,261 from The National Science Foundation to support a project titled "Many-body effects in a frozen Rydberg gas" (September).

Bob Gastaldo (geology), $74,812 from The National Science Foundation for his work on tropical vegetation during the early part of an ice age (August).

Steve Dunham and Das Thamattoor (chemistry) and Paul Greenwood (biology), $117,220 from The National Science Foundation for a project called "Acquisition of Isothermal Titration and Differential Scanning MicroCalorimeters for Chemistry and Biology Research" (August).

Ben Fallaw (history), $60,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies for a project called "Uncivil Society: How the Church, Business, and Press Helped Forge an Illiberal Mexico, 1924-1940" (July).

Sandy Maisel (government), $580,000 from The Pew Charitable Trusts for a project titled "Multi-grant Evaluation for Grants in the Area of Candidate and Consultant Conduct Improving Elections Program" (July).

Julie Millard (chemistry), $33,516 from the Research Corporation for her work on "in vivo mapping of Diepoxybutane Damage using a Ligation-mediated Polymerase Chain Reaction" (May).

Suellen Diaconoff (French), $28,800 from the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program for a sabbatical project titled "The New Scheherazades: Women, Writing, and Politics in Morocco (April).

Whitney King (chemistry), $19,969 from The National Science Foundation for an exploratory geochemistry field program for minority students (March).

Herb Wilson (biology) and Whitney King (chemistry), $60,000 from the Merck Charitables Foundation, a three-year grant for the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program (March).

A current list of faculty and institutional grants received is online at www.colby.edu/cfr/current.html.

FEATURES:
A Global Forum
An alliance with the United World College is giving Colby an international flavor and perspective.

On Terror's Trail
Brian MacQuarrie '74 looks for the sources of hatred that spawn violence and finds more.

All Business
Ted Snyder '75 runs a business school and tells us about it.

School Across the Bay
Kristine Davidson Young '87 and Barney Hallowell '64 dedicate themselves to their students on North Haven Island.