Students using the downtown business incubator space at 173 Main Street in Waterville were featured in a Feb. 23 story that ran in the Portland Press Herald. The story focuses on EuroPiste, a company founded by students “described as a marketplace where winter sports professionals can buy discounted gear,” the Press Herald reports. Theo Satloff told the paper that...
Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies, and Maple Razsa, associate professor of global studies, have received a prestigious ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for their project “Insurgent Mobilities: An Ethnography of the Balkan Route as Movement.” Anthropologists El-Shaarawi and Razsa “will coauthor an ethnography of the Balkan route that tells the story of the migrants who...
Finn Murphy ’82, a long-haul truck driver, was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air Feb. 14. Murphy, who has written a book, The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road (Norton, 2017), “describes life on the road as a ‘reaction against regimentation,” NPR reports.
Professor of Government Dan Shea was tapped by Maine Public to give a response to the Feb. 13 State of the State Address by Maine Governor Paul LePage. Shea’s remarks begin at 1:28:52 in the video on this Maine Public web page.
Lori Kletzer, professor of economics, wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review titled “The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs—It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid” published Jan. 31. “The fear that machines will replace human labor is a durable one in the public mind,” Kletzer writes. “Yet most economists have viewed ‘the...
A collaboration between Associate Professor of Theater and Dance Annie Kloppenberg and the Portland Ballet was featured in a Feb. 5 Portland Press Herald article. The collaboration includes choreographer Yury Yanowsky, a French-born Spanish dancer who “has been working with dancers from Portland Ballet and Colby on a piece called ‘Origins,’ which explores society’s fascination with digital...
The Baltimore Ravens announced Feb. 2 that Eric DeCosta ’93 will become the team’s general manager next season, following the departure of long-time general manager Ozzie Newsome. DeCosta, a Colby overseer, has been with the Ravens since 1998 and is currently the organization’s assistant general manager, a position he’s held since 2012. Baltimore Ravens owner Steve...
Andrea Tilden may be a world-class computational biologist at Colby, but she’s also an impressive Etch a Sketch artist. A profile about her and her artwork appeared in a Feb. 1 Ellsworth American article written while Tilden, the J. Warren Merrill Associate Professor of Biology, is on sabbatical and working as a visiting professor at the MDI...
A solo exhibition by artist Jim Condron ’92, Diminishing Returns, is on view through March 25, 2018, at Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery. “Through the paintings in this exhibition, Condron presents a haptic convergence of scale, size, color, texture, and dimensionality,” according to a press release from the college. ArtDaily.org reported on the exhibit, noting, “This exhibition...
A Jan Plan course titled The Good Life, taught by Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life Kurt Nelson, was mentioned in an article from Yale University. The course was developed by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale Divinity School and taught at schools in China, England, and the United States, including Colby....
Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross penned an op-ed for the New York Times titled “Why is Hollywood so Liberal” in advance of the Oscars. “It’s award season in Hollywood, and it looks like the big winner will be progressive politics,” Gross wrote Jan. 27, then tries to explain why actors are liberal, offering several...
Professor of Education Lyn Mikel Brown and Brittany Ray ’93, P’18 were included in a Bangor Daily News story about a new program called TREE, Transforming Rural Experience in Education. The article looks how the program strives to improve the odds of students in poor, rural towns in Washington County, Maine, by using brain science to...
A Jan. 22 story in MaineBiz on the rise of dollar stores in Maine includes a quote by Pugh Family Professor of Economics David Findlay. “The growth of this industry reflects another significant change in retail spending,” Findlay said, which shows an increase in stores throughout Maine and across the United States. Dollar General and Dollar Tree have...
Director of the Colby College Museum of Art Sharon Corwin was quoted in an article in Art New England about the New Media Arts Consortium, of which the museum is a member. The consortium was initially Corwin’s idea after realizing that acquisition of film and video work can be expensive. “As we wanted to build a...
Associate Professor of Government Walter Hatch wrote an op-ed for Monkey Cage, a Washington Post blog. Titled “Cornel West accused Ta-Nehisi Coates of being a neoliberal. Does neoliberal still mean anything?” Hatch’s op-ed defines the concept neoliberalism, which he says “is now abused so routinely that its actual meaning has become all but lost to the general...
As social media heats up in response to a Jan. 21 op-ed in the Boston Globe, “For better science, call off the revolutionaries” the Association for Psychological Science reported on the debate in this Jan. 22 article. Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto is mentioned in ASP’s article, which notes Soto shared on Twitter a letter he...
Columnist Amy Calder included a quote from President David A. Greene’s Martin Luther King Day talk Jan. 15 in her Jan. 22 column titled “In these times Robert Frost’s voice resonates.” The column evokes Robert Frost’s poetry, including “Fire and Ice” and “Once by the Pacific,” and pulls in a line in Greene’s talk: “So...
Colby was listed as one of 31 schools now using MyinTuition, “a fast and easy financial aid calculator” in a Jan. 17 story about the tool in the Washington Post. The story concluded with a quote from Matt Proto, vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid at Colby, who said families often don’t consider private colleges...
Douglas Rooks ’76 wrote an op-ed focusing on Mike Roy ’74, Waterville’s city manager who has “has been with Waterville through major changes, with more to come,” the Jan. 18 piece said. Rooks notes that Roy is most proud of the Quarry Road Recreation Area, which was “accomplished through a mixture of city cooperation and...
A talk by President David A. Greene on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was covered by newspapers and radio across Maine. His talk, titled “Bending Towards Justice” was given at Waterville’s 32nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast. Greene argued that “all lives matter—that the value of African-American lives is equal to the lives...
