A collaboration between Colby students and Maine filmmaker Charles Stuart, through support from the Buck Lab for Climate and Environment, produces short films that tell stories of grassroots climate action in Maine. In the summer of 2019, students Conor …
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Promotion and Tenure Awarded to Six Colby Faculty
Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, Provost and Dean of Faculty Margaret McFadden, and President David A. Greene, the Board of Trustees has awarded tenure to six faculty members based on their distinguished scholarship, capabilities as …
Brown Ash Endangerment and Indigenous Solutions
Environmental Studies students in EH Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Walker’s “Life in Times of Extinction class,” Grace Neumiller, Keller Leet-Otley and Tommaso Wagner have published an article about how invasive Emerald Ash Borers are destroying Brown Ash trees in Maine. The …
Stoddard ’20 Writes Letter to Editor in Bangor Daily News
As part of an assignment for her class the Environment and Human Health, Caroline Stoddard ’20 wrote a letter to the editor that was printed in the Bangor Daily News May 10. Titled “Phase out PFAS,” the letter …
Braverman ’11 Draws Media Buzz for First Iditarod
Blair Braverman ’11 started her first Iditarod March 3, but she’s not new to mushing. Her social media posts about her dogs and their races have a large following—dubbed “Ugly dogs”—and the media has been interested in her story. National …
Loren McClenachan Named 2019 Pew Marine Fellow
The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation has named Loren McClenachan a 2019 Marine Fellow. McClenachan, a marine ecologist and Colby’s Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, will be awarded $150,000 over a three-year period for her …
ES Program graduates ’18 profiled on Colby homepage
Congratulations to ES Program seniors highlighted to represent the academic breadth and excellence of of the class of 2018.
Fulbright Program winner Alyssa Kullberg
NSF GRFP winner Brian Kim
Hollis Award winner Wes Zebrowski
http://www.colby.edu/commencement/snapshots/senior-snapshots-2018/…
Former EPA senior advisor to speak as part of ES Evening Lecture Series
ES Evening Lecture Series – “Moving Our Most Vulnerable Communities From Surviving to Thriving”
Featuring Mustafa Ali, former EPA senior advisor
Co-Sponsored by Oak, AAS, PCB & Goldfarb
March 6th at 7 p.m. in Ostrove
Inaugural F. Russell Cole Lecture, Dr. Sylvia Earle
Dr. Sylvia Earle, legendary oceanographer, acclaimed environmental scientist, and champion for ocean conservation, has been named the inaugural F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Colby College for the academic year 2017-2018.
Dr. Earle, National Geographic’s Rosemary and …
Prof. McClenachan co-authors paper in Marine Policy
Opportunities for improving global marine conservation through multilateral treaties…