It’s early in the 2019 season and Colby, the reigning NESCAC champion, has just come off a 3-0 win over Thomas College. The team works on situational drills, three-on-two breaks, hoping to hone the offense for the upcoming game against Connecticut College. Listening closely as Coach Ewan Seabrook delivers instruction to his forwards, Johnson is […]
Last summer she traveled to Atlanta for a CDC meeting on immunization practices that anti-vaxxers often attend. She listened to their emotional speeches and found that one woman’s words stuck with her: It’s just so sad that all my civil rights are being taken. “I never really heard or thought about the anti-vax movement in […]
The seed for the project was planted in the fall of her junior year in Jerusalem, Israel, where McFadden took a class on Hasidism taught by a Hasidic professor. “It was about spirituality in a way that traditional Judaism is not,” she said. “I found it really intriguing.” McFadden considered numerous Hasidic groups in the […]
Four years later, Zheng leaves Ahmad’s lab and Colby not only as an exemplary biology student and highly skilled researcher but also as the class marshal, graduating with the highest G.P.A. in the Class of 2020. “He’s been awesome,” Ahmad said. “There’s no other way to describe it—the kind of work ethic he brings, the […]
In the Driver’s Seat RaQuion Braxton ’20 is no stranger to the stage. A singer and actor all his young life, he had a clear vision for his college career: a focus on musical theater. He could have attended a conservatory, but he chose the liberal arts. And he chose Colby. Braxton spent equal parts […]
To those on many of Maine’s small islands, it does. For us year-rounders, the island is not only our home, but a refuge from traffic, city life, and crowds. Spruce Head, for instance, has a meager year-round population of 200, with the lobstermen heading out on their boats each morning and others driving onto […]
It was in this seminar that the idea for Gonzalez’s Charles W. Bassett Prize-winning research began. Gonzalez’s research focuses on the visual and aesthetic Kalinga style of tattoos native to the Philippines. These tattoos are created in batok style; batok, in Tagalog, means “to hit, to strike.” It involves a “single needle taken from the […]
“Without bundling investment in preschool care with care for younger children, with after-school care, with summer care, it still is very difficult—if you have a child enrolled in school—to work if you’re also a primary caregiver of a child. And counterintuitively, it appears to be in some cases easier for already privileged groups of […]
Six months later, Brinkema continues to push his company (he recently participated in a statewide pitch competition in Maine), which grew out of his frustration with the lack of appreciation of his artist peers. He remembers thinking during a museum visit in his hometown, Minneapolis, Minn.: “Well, the stuff that I’m seeing right here is […]
“I was like, ‘oh my God, I want to do this, like let’s make this an event,’” said Heisler, a biology major with a concentration in neuroscience and an anthropology minor, who wants to work in mental health. Planting “Hope Gardens” is an initiative of the Yellow Tulip Project, a Maine-based NGO founded by a […]
