The official opening and ribbon cutting of the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons Sept. 6 drew media attention. “About 350 city officials, state legislators, business people, Colby benefactors, students, and staff, as well as area residents, stood outside the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons at 150 Main St. to listen to brief...
President David A. Greene penned an op-ed titled “Finding the essence of home in Waterville” in the Sept. 2 Morning Sentinel. In it, Greene recounts a recent trip to Tipperary, Ireland, for the funeral and burial of his young nephew. Struck by the community’s support of his family, Greene noted that the villagers were “focused on our commonalities,...
The headline reads “Colby students living in downtown Waterville dorm look forward to roles in community” on the Aug. 27 front-page story in the Morning Sentinel. The story highlights student residents Matt Reasor ’20 and Moeketsi Justice Mokobocho ’19, both of whom are community advisors (CA) in the residence, and their enthusiasm for the civic engagement requirement of...
The Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons in downtown Waterville will soon see students and faculty moving in, reports the Morning Sentinel Aug. 7.“It’s exciting to think about,” said Brian Clark, vice president of planning at Colby. “One week from today, basically, we’re going to see students living here. And one or two weeks after that,...
The Colby College Museum of Art was listed in an article titled “10 reasons you need to travel the Maine Art Museum Trail” in USA TODAY July 9. The article highlights Red Tree in High Winter, a painting by Alma Thomas in the museum’s collection. “The first African-American woman honored with a solo exhibition at the Whitney...
The under-15 team from The Base, an organization for youth in Roxbury, Mass., played the Maine Sluggers on Colby’s Coombs Field July 9 to signify a new partnership between Colby and The Base. The game, covered by the Bangor Daily News and by WABI-TV, brought together two organizations that use athletics as a vehicle to empower youth to...
“Optimism over Waterville’s direction spurs purchase of historic Main Street block” is the title of a June 25 story in Mainebiz about a recent purchase of the historic Arnold Block in downtown Waterville by siblings Tracy Nale Sewall and Thomas Nale. The Nales, both of whom graduated from Colby, were inspired by revitalization projects underway in the downtown, Mainebiz reports. “A lot of...
Michael Burke, professor of English, has won a Maine Literary Award in the drama category for his script of the play The Town Meets. The award, presented by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, recognized Burke’s script based on the phenomenon of a small New England town’s town meeting.
Sports photographer Walter Iooss, whose work is on exhibit at the Colby College Museum of Art, was interviewed June 8 by Rob Caldwell for “207.” Iooss began shooting for Sports Illustrated at 17, and he “got his first cover for that magazine at 19,” Caldwell said. “He has covered every major sporting event and personality...
Kate Blauer ’19, a legislative intern in the office of Massachusetts State Senator Julian Cyr, was featured in the first installment of the Cape Cod Today‘s “Summer Intern Chronicles.” Blauer, a government and Russian language double major, says, “I feel a sense of valuable contribution to a political office that I am deeply confident in. Some...
Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, was featured prominently in an Undark story about research in South Africa’s Karoo region. Gastaldo has been researching the South African region where the end-Permian extinction is reported, and this story looks at what researchers are discovering in the rocks. “’If the marine and continental biota collapsed simultaneously, or even a...
The Maine Conference for Jewish Life, held June 8-10 in Waterville and hosted by Colby’s Center for Small Town Jewish Life, was covered by WABI-TV news. The center director Rabbi Rachel Isaacs told WABI that “more and more the word is getting out about what makes Jewish life in Maine quirky, and fun, and unique,...
Associate Professor of Government Walter Hatch was interviewed on FOX News Rundown June 11 by anchor Eric Shawn P’17 about North Korea’s human rights record and its history with the United States as President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepared to meet June 12 in Singapore. It was expected that terms of denuclearization would be the...
A poem by Adrian Blevins, associate professor English, was featured on Verse Daily June 5. “Was Losing My Joie De Vivre Really Like” comes from Blevins’s newest book, Appalachians Run Amok, winner of the Wilder Series Book Prize.
Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, was included in a CNN story by conservative commentator Carrie Sheffield titled “Let’s acknowledge the political double standard for ugly speech.” Sheffield writes, “The list of the blind hypocrisy of the American entertainment complex goes on and on, but it’s symptomatic of its deep liberal leanings. Neil Gross,...
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Justin Becknell coauthored a paper recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Titled “Abundance of Neotropical legumes during secondary succession across a rainfall gradient. Nature Ecology & Evolution,” this work examines the poorly understood role of nitrogen-fixing legumes trees in replenishing the nutrient supply of tropical forests recovering from deforestation. By combining...
A recent New York Times op-ed by Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, titled “Is the United States Too Big to Govern?” was discussed in a May 14 episode on National Review. Hear the discussion beginning at 21:30 on the National Review’s website.
Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies, was a guest on “Maine Calling” explaining the relevance of anthropology to our everyday lives. El-Shaarawi was one of four panels discussing topics such as the difference in anthropological research, why human separate into different groups, the human dimensions of climate change, and the anthropology of war. Listen here.
An essay by Elisabeth Stokes, visiting assistant professor of English, is included in Not That Bad, a collection of essays that debuted this week as a New York Times bestseller. The book, edited by Roxane Gay, focuses on the violence and harassment that women worldwide face. Stokes is originally from Alaska. Her writing has appeared in numerous national and international...
Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman coauthored a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Titled “Denali ice core methanesulfonic acid records North Pacific marine primary production,” the paper focuses on developing a tool for assessing past changes in primary production in the North Pacific, i.e., the base of the marine food web. The paper developed...
