When students returned to campus for the 2015-16 academic year, a couple of new facilities projects greeted their arrival and others will be completed in October. The Roberts Building, known to students at “Bobs,” returned to its original function as a residence hall; the Collins Astronomical Observatory was relocated to Runnals Hill, a better site...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Winifred Tate presented her new book, Drugs, Thugs and Diplomats: U.S. Policymaking in Colombia, at the Watson Institute for International Affairs at Brown University Sept. 21. The talk was part of the Security Seminar Series at Brown’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. In 2000 the United States passed a...
Raffael Scheck, the Katz Professor of History, published two articles related to his historical research in a book released in Paris this summer. The book, Des Soldats noirs face au Reich. Les massacres racistes de 1940, was edited by Johann Chapoutot and Jean Vigreux and published by Presses Universitaires de France. Scheck contributed two of...
An article by Ankeney Weitz, Colby’s Jette Professor of Art, titled “‘Infused with the Best Essence of China’: Zao Wou-ki’s Early Career” was published in the Sept. 2015 issue of Orientations magazine (volume 46, no. 6), with a painting from the article as the issue’s cover image. Weitz’s piece investigates a poorly understood part of...
Associate Professor Tanya Sheehan, chair of the Art Department, contributed an essay to the Blackwell Press volume A Companion to American Art published in spring 2015. Sheehan’s essay, titled “A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History,” is one of 35 newly commissioned essays by leading scholars who explore the methodology, historiography, and...
Professor of History Paul Josephson will deliver a presentation at the Mid-Maine Global Forum on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policies and programs. The noontime lunch talk on Sept. 23 in Waterville is titled “Putin, Putinism, and Russian-American Relations.” The Mid-Maine Global Forum is a community organization that sponsors presentations and discussions that educate the local...
Colby recently announced a new partnership with YES Prep, an open-enrollment public charter school system in Houston that encourages students from low-income communities to achieve at the highest level. As an IMPACT affiliate, Colby will meet full demonstrated financial need and provide support for all admitted YES Prep students. “We [YES Prep] are thrilled to...
Colby recently announced a new partnership with Say Yes to Education. A Higher Education Compact partner, the College has agreed to cover the full cost of tuition for any admitted Say Yes student whose annual household income is at or below $75,000. This partnership augments the College’s commitment to making a Colby education accessible to...
Steven Nuss, associate professor of music and co-chair of the Music Department, will present his recent research on the American composer Morton Feldman this November in a special session at the National Conference of the Society for Music Theory. His paper “Trancing in the Palace: Kabbalah, Altered States, and Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari (1986)”...
Professor of Science, Technology, and Society James R. Fleming has won the 2015 Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. He will receive the award Sept. 21 in Hamburg, Germany, at the German Climate Conference organized by the German Meteorological Society. The Brückner Prize, administered by the research institute Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht’s Center...
Most of the 509 members of the Class of 2019 arrived at Colby Sept. 1 to begin a four-year journey of intellectual discovery with orientation as they make the Mayflower Hill campus their home. First-year orientation, Sept. 1-8, features seminars with faculty, an introduction to the liberal arts, and civic engagement opportunities in the local...
The Geology Department at Colby College recently received a gift of eight works of art by Joseph A. Fiore, from his estate as administered through the Maine Farmland Trust. Fiore, who painted in New York City and spent summers in Maine for a half century, is known for focusing on fragments of nature’s whole. The...
Associate Professor of American Studies Laura Saltz will give the keynote address to the American Literature chapter of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS) Sept. 3 at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Her talk is titled “Between Science and Sentimentality: Looking, Reading, Feeling, Detecting.” The program topic is “Science, Suspects, and Surveillance in...
The department of psychology at Illinois State University will honor Jen Coane, assistant professor of psychology at Colby, with its Early Career Award for 2015. Coane earned bachelor of arts and master of science degrees at Illinois State before earning her Ph.D. at Washington University is St. Louis. Her areas of academic expertise include cognitive...
From the Wall Street Journal to NPR, CNBC to USA Today, the media is turning again to Professor of Government Anthony Corrado for insights on money and politics. Corrado, a leading expert on campaign finance, saw his inbox fill up this summer as trade deals and the 2016 presidential race put campaign dollars in the...
The Adaptors—a podcast that explores the notion that “Climate change is calling; the adaptors are responding”—tapped Professor of Science, Technology, and Society James Fleming for a segment titled “Fixing the Sky” for its Aug. 13 episode. The 16-minute interview covers Fleming’s research about “sincere but deluded” practitioners of climate engineering, the topic of his bestselling...
When the Boston Globe’s innovation and tech news section, BetaBoston, named the “25 Most Innovative People Under 25” in late July, Colby was well represented. Both Matthew Boyes-Watson ’12 and David Stanton ’14 made the list of the region’s hottest young entrepreneurs and creative thinkers. Boyes-Watson ’12 is the CEO and founder of Jumpshell, an...
Nearly a hundred Colby students presented research at the annual Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat (CUSRR), held July 23 in The Forks, 62 miles north of Colby on the Kennebec River. An opportunity for students engaged across the curriculum to share their work and connect with peers, faculty, staff, and alumni, the two-day retreat takes...
A film produced by Charlie Beck ’17, Mardi Haskell ’17, and John Woodside ’18 called Perpetual e-Motion: The New Faces of Contra was shown during the Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) held in July in Waterville. They originally produced the film for a music class called Maine’s Musical Soundscapes: Ethnography of Maine. In this Q&A...
Colby College recently announced a new partnership with the Horatio Alger Association, a nonprofit that helps young people achieve their version of the American dream through increased access to higher education. The association partners with colleges and universities to provide scholarships to deserving students who have exhibited determination to succeed in the face of adversity....
