Professor Sandy Maisel (government) says that recent resignations of three officials in Maine Gov. Paul Lepage's administration are signs of a "devil-may-care" attitude in LePage's administration.
Research described at the Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium keynote event Wednesday suggests the smelly secretions of mink frogs have antimicrobial properties and could lead to new antibiotics for humans.
The 12th annual Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium, April
27-29, features hundreds of Colby students presenting significant
projects as talks, poster presentations, and performances.
Colby joins more than 1,300 institutions including the Museum of Modern
Art, the National Gallery, Harvard, and Yale on ARTstor, a shared, online digital image library.
This week Dick Sewell (theater and dance, emeritus) realizes a lifelong ambition: directing all five plays in W.B. Yeats's The Cuchulain Cycle in a unified performance.
Anthony Corrado (government) says Obama faces different fundraising challenges in 2012 than in 2008: “He begins the race with the biggest donor base in presidential history,
but you also have to add the dimension that it will be hard to
replicate the historic nature of his candidacy.”
Cinema studies is the newest minor offered at Colby. More than 50 courses incorporating the study of film were already being taught as faculty worked to establish the new minor, which will debut in the 2011-12 catalogue.
Lyn Mikel Brown (education) condemns Abercrombie & Fitch’s latest children’s bathing suit -- a bikini for 7- to 13-year-old girls with a padded, push-up bra. "Girls who ingest this uncensored message are more prone to depression, eating disorders and self-esteem issues,” she said.
Prof. Paul Josephson (history), who has researched nuclear power plants and safety worldwide, offers "Seven Reasons We Should Abandon Nuclear Power" in a March 17 Christian Science Monitor oped.
