ABC News Digital's live coverage of the final presidential debate will be anchored by an all-Colby team: ABC News Political Director Amy Walter '91 and Good Morning America Weekend Anchor Dan Harris '93.
Spencer Traylor ’15, a Mitchell Scholar from Brownville, Maine, was one of two college students named 2012 CIEE and Mitchell Institute International Fellows.
Professor Adrian Blevins, (creative writing) has a poem in The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine. Her poem "How to Cook a Wolf" appears with works by many of the most renowned poets of the last century.
C-SPAN2’s Book TV visits Maine, and three Colby history professors are featured. A series that debuts Saturday, Oct. 6, includes interviews with history professors Elizabeth Leonard, Raffael Scheck, and Larissa Taylor.
MPBN's TV series Sustainable Maine features Colby professors and students in a new episode, "Saving Our Lakes," debuting Thursday, Sept. 27, at 8:30 p.m.
After losing three family members to deadly partisan animosity, South African human rights activist and 2012 Oak Fellow Zandile Nhlengetwa boldly fights to end the cycle of violence.
Whipple-Coddington Professor Robert Gastaldo is presenting the lead talk in the Triassic Recovery Symposium at the centennial meeting of the Palaeontologische Geselleschaft in Berlin, Germany, in late September. The talk, “Constraining the End-Permian Crisis in the Karoo Basin, South Africa: New Data from the Eastern Cape Province,” is coauthored with colleagues from University of Toronto, University of California–Berkeley, Southern Methodist University, the Council for Geosciences, and Rhodes University in South Africa. Gastaldo returns to South Africa in January under a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his studies at Rhodes.
Professor Gary Green (art) photographed the New York music scene in the 1970s and '80s, and his images appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, and on album covers. An exhibit of his work at Waterville's Common Street Arts runs through October.
In an address to new students Sept. 4, President William D. Adams highlighted Colby's bicentennial and laid out two cardinal virtues of the residential liberal arts community they're joining: first, passionate and committed engagement with the intellectual work, and second, civility. Video of his talk is online, as is the text.
Fall sports begin Friday, Sept. 7, with eight home contests the first weekend (see schedule). Cross-country captains Berol Dewdney '13 and Morgan Lingar '13 are profiled in the Morning Sentinel for leadership on and off the team.
Foreigners and Their Food, a groundbreaking book by Professor David Freidenreich, has won the American Academy of Religion's award for excellence in the study of religion in the textual studies category.
Keeping Maine lakes healthy is the goal of a multidisciplinary initiative by Colby professors and students, and their efforts are being noticed by Maine media.
Classes officially begin Wednesday, Sept. 5, following orientation for the Class of 2016, which ends Tuesday. A profile of the incoming class, which arrives as Colby celebrates its bicentennial.
Civilwarmonitor.com posted a 20-minute video interview with Gibson Professor of History Elizabeth Leonard about Joseph Holt, the subject of her latest award-winning book, and about her approach to teaching the Civil War. Civilwarmonitor.com is the digital arm of The Civil War Monitor magazine.
Dana Professor of Philosophy Jill Gordon's new book, Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death, was published by Cambridge University Press in August 2012.
Two alumni are in the news for the major roles they are playing in different areas of the business world. Read about how Edward Snyder '75 plans to redirect the Yale School of Management (New York Times) and about the dissenting views of Boston Fed Chair Eric Rosengren '79 (Boston Globe).
