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STUDY-ABROAD LEADER
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No NESCAC school has higher participation in the total number of
students who study abroad than Colby. The Institute of International
Education's annual Open Doors survey, which lists schools by the
numbers of students who study abroad, put Colby at seventh nationally
among baccalaureate institutions for 2006-07 in its "top 40" list, just
released. Among NESCAC brethren, only Middlebury, Bates, Trinity, and
Wesleyan made the several IIE Open Doors study-abroad lists.
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TEAM OF TOMS TACKLES CLIMATE CHOICES
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When Tom Tietenberg
(economics, emeritus) starts work as a member of the National Academy
of Sciences panel on "America's Climate Choices" in December, one NAS
staff member he'll work with is Tom Menzies '85, his
former student, now with the NAS Transportation Research Board. Tom T.
will be the only liberal arts-affiliated panelist in a group examining
issues associated with global climate change. Launched at the request
of Congress, the NAS project will consider science and technology
challenges and provide advice on actions and strategies the nation can
take. See information online.
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SHARING ART FOR TEACHING
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The Colby and Bowdoin museums have agreed to allow faculty members to
use works from each other's collection in their teaching. With Colby's
focus on American art and Bowdoin's on European art, it's a natural
fit. Another collaboration, led by Ankeny Weitz (East Asian studies), will result in Ink Tales, an exhibition of Chinese narrative painting opening at both museums in January.
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LA VICTOIRE D'OBAMA
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In Dijon, France, Colby students watching election results until 6 a.m.
were the hook for news coverage of the American elections. The TV station France 3 Bourgogne featured first-year students in the Colby in Dijon program, and the newspaper Le Bien Public put them on page one . An extended list of Colby in the News, including extensive election-related clips, is at http://www.colby.edu/news_events/.
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BUBBLY BIO BY MAZZEO
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Tilar Mazzeo's new book, The Widow Clicquot, got a smashing review in The Wall Street Journal , and Tilar is busy with interviews promoting the popular book. The Journal
called it "an intoxicating business biography ... the story of the
woman who transformed a struggling family business into one of the
great champagne houses of France ... a fascinating trip, made even more
so by Ms. Mazzeo's charming cameo appearances as a kind of a tour
guide." A Colby magazine review is available online.
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MACKENZIE'S LIBERAL PRAISE
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When Cal Mackenzie (government) read from The Liberal Hour for C-SPAN2's BookTV (at Barnes & Noble in Augusta), he was generous with praise for "partner in crime" Rob Weisbrot (history) and research assistants Emily Boyle '06 and Randi Arsenault '09.
"You go in there thinking you know something about the topic. ... When
you get to writing about it, you realize there's a lot you don't know
or things that you thought you knew turn out not to be right. That's
when you rely on your research assistant." He said. See the hour-long program online.
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PARSING CREEPY DELUSIONS
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Acarophobia is the delusion that one's skin is infested with small crawling organisms. Lydia Bolduc-Marden (health center) is an acarophobia expert; at least she is coauthor of an article in the July-August American Journal of Nurse Practitioners
on the ailment, known as DP (delusions of parasitosis). Lydia is known
as MSN-WHNP, FNP-C, ("Just say 'nurse practitioner'," she said).
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CANS BY THE TON
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Cans Across America, Sodhexo's national effort to break the record for
food collection in one day, generated more than four tons of
nonperishables collected by Dining Services Nov. 12. The food was
donated to local food pantries and the Good Shepherd Food Bank, which
supplies programs throughout the state. See (http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=95849). No word yet on the whether the world record fell.
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GREENEST MAG
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"Among the thousands of alumni magazines published by colleges, two are
considered leaders in the move to 100-percent-recycled paper," the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Oct. 17: "Colby College's and Denison University's." Brian Speer (communications) "is seen as a leader in the field," the Chronicle said, noting that Colby saved 1,576 trees, 26 barrels of crude, and 575,829 gallons of water last year alone.
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FENWAY FAVORS MULES
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On Oct. 14 the Red Sox were down 2-1 in their playoff series with Tampa
Bay and losing 6-1 in game four when, in the bottom of the fifth, Joe
Castiglione (voice of the Red Sox) shouted out a thanks to football
coach Ed Mestieri for
sending along some Colby football jerseys. Dale Arnold, the radio color
commentator, said he could only wear his for chores around the house
... being a Bowdoin grad. The jerseys got another mention later in the
game.
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SCHECK'S "GERMAN PERSPECTIVE"
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On Nov. 8 the British newspaper Guardian published an excerpt from the new book by Raffael Scheck (history), Germany 1871-1945: A Concise History
(Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2008), which deals with the outbreak of World
War I. The excerpt, headlined "A German Perspective," is part of a
seven-part series on the history of World War I.
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FAMILIES ON A CONTINUUM
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On Nov. 14 Waterville's Main Street, a Mayflower Hill classroom, and Jenny Boylan (English) and family all appeared with Barbara Walters on 20/20, where Jenny talked about the continuum of gender and family. Look for her in part four of the Nov. 14 show.
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RUNNING WITH THE BEST
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Congrats to Coach Deb Aitken.
Her women's cross country runners, making their eighth appearance as a
team in the last 15 years, finished 17th at the NCAA Div. III national
championship meet Saturday. http://www.colby.edu/athletics_cs/womens_cross_country
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NEW FACES ON MAYFLOWER HILL
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Welcome our new colleagues:
Virginia Crawford, custodian, PPD
http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/vmcrawfo/
Alaine Roselle, on-call registered nurse, health center
Sean Boyd, senior server administrator, ITS
http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/spboyd/
Katrinia Darby, assistant director of campus life for residential education
Christine Clancy, assistant women's basketball coach
http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/cclancy/
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TRAVEL GRANTS
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Laura Chakravarty Box, Staging the Middle East in Theater and through Performance, Riverside, Calif. … Philip Brown, Association of Public Policy and Management, Los Angeles… Susan Cole, Library and Informational Technology Association, Cincinnati… Maria Dolores Bollo-Panadero, Modern Language Association, San Francisco… James Fleming, Society for the History of Technology, Lisbon; History of Science Society, Pittsburgh… Melissa Glenn, Society for Neuroscience/Survival Skills and Ethics Programs, Washington… Yamile Silva Gualteros, Modern Language Association, San Francisco… Karen Henning, Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Association, Marco Island… Michael McGuire, Library and Information Technology Association, Cincinnati… Barbara Nelson, Southern Conference on Language Teaching, Atlanta… Thane Pittman, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Sacramento… Marilyn Pukkila, Association of College and Research Libraries Institute on Scholarly Communications, Portland, Ore. … Hadley Renkin, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco… Alicia Wygant Revitt, Maine Library Association, Bethel… Laura Saltz, Society for the History of Technology, Lisbon… Mark Serdjenian, National Soccer Coaches Association of America, St. Louis… Doanh Wang, Intercollegiate Tennis Association, Naples, Fla. … Richard Whitmore, National Association of Basketball Coaches, Detroit… Fei Yu, Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington... Hong Zhang, Association of Chinese Political Studies, Springfield, Mo.