Nasseri, a Davis United World scholar from Kabul, and was recently awarded $10,000 for his "Empowering Afghan Women Through Embroidery" project. His goal is to provide a way for Afghan women to become less dependent on men or household incomes, as well as to encourage children off the streets and away from the child labor pool. Read more »

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Homeless in high school, she fought to make Colby a place where students from all backgrounds can thrive. Read more »

John Campbell never imagined he would be essentially self-employed as the executive director of a nonprofit that brings students from Afghanistan to the United States for High School. Yet, only a year and a half out of college, Campbell is the executive director of Afghan Scholars Initiative (ASI). Read more »

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Investigating why preschool children have difficulty estimating others' ages, this award-winning psychology major was the subject of an Echo profile (written by Kelsey Conroy '13). Read more »

This Thomas J. Watson Fellowship winner was a smart kid from a single-parent home in the South Bronx. Few people knew his responsibilities included more than his studies at Colby. Read more »

The only four-time All-American in the history of Colby extends her lacrosse career down under. Read more »

Physics, music, and engineering. Combining these passions proved easy at Colby -- with help from the Colby/Dartmouth dual-degree program. Read more »

After participating in the Music Department's Contact Zone JanPlan, David is now in the Himalayas working in Prajwal School in Nepal. This school is open to boys and girls of all castes, religions, and backgrounds, with the goal of offering an alternative education model to the rote memorization in traditional schools. Read more »