Colby Magazine, Winter 2004

	Bioinformatics Clare Bates Congdon explores applications for her work, from genetic research to artificial intelligence.

	Good Morning Professor Russo Pulitzer-winning novelist Richard Russo is back in the classroom at Colby.

	Briefs Pioneering studies; distinguished fellow; honoring collaborative practices.

Pioneering Studies
Jim Fleming (STS) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for pioneering studies on the history of meteorology and climate change and for the advancement of historical work within meteorological societies." The sitting president of the International Commission on History of Meteorology, Fleming also is the Ritter Fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography this year. He's been busy doing talks here and there, and in October he published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on the role of climate in the California wildfires.

Distinguished Fellow
Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government G. Calvin Mackenzie has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Evidently he is the first person from Maine so honored. Mackenzie was inducted in Washington, D.C., on November 21. An independent, nonpartisan organization chartered by Congress, the academy is the nation's preeminent organization dedicated to improving the performance of governance systems. Fellows include leading members of Congress, governors, mayors, cabinet secretaries and agency heads, journalists and scholars. Their election recognizes careers of significant contribution to the practice and study of government.

Honoring Collaborative Practices
On October 24 the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) presented Jean Donovan Sanborn (English) the 2003 Ron Maxwell Award for Distinguished Leadership in Promoting the Collaborative Learning Practices of Peer Tutors in Writing. The award recognizes Sanborn's dedication to promoting the work of peer tutors and her years of service as director of Colby's Farnham Writers' Center, a position she retired from in 2003. The presentation, in Hershey, Pa., came at the 20th annual meeting of the NCPTW, an organization Sanborn helped to found.

FEATURES:

Freedom Fighter
Librarian Carolyn Additon Anthony '71 has emerged as a national leader in the opposition to the USA Patriot Act, which she says gives the government license to violate civil liberties.

Now What?
College seniors have more than graduation approaching. Four members of the Class of '04 share their hopes and worries.

Breaking the Ice
A century after Roald Amundsen's voyage in the search for a Northwest Passage, Alvo Martin '51 followed the same spectacular route on a Coast Guard icebreaker and research ship.

Being Billy Bush
In six years Billy Bush '94 went from spinning oldies at a New Hampshire radio station to the celebrity life of TV's Access Hollywood. How did he do it?