“We are forecasting a recovery in Maine, probably a little healthier than what some people are projecting,” said macroeconomist Michael Donihue ’79, Colby’s Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics, whose students forecasted Maine’s economic future by working through dozens of equations. “If we do get some sort of support from a fiscal policy on subsidies […]
“[That] is not sustainable,” said Mpofu, who wished Zimbabwe had a company that could produce medical devices using local resources to address local needs. She decided to make that happen. And as a Colby sophomore going into her junior year, she was on her way to acquiring the necessary skills. Ever since high school, Mpofu […]
“[It] got me thinking … about how these big societal forces apply to my whole life,” said Strelevitz, who began to notice racial and class divides in her school. “I knew that was something that I wanted to keep learning how to do.” With that awareness, Strelevitz came to Colby and pursued a double major […]
Jon Olinto ’98 Cofounder “Feeding kids in places where they wouldn’t normally have fresh, healthy food is something that, while it’s hard to quantify the value in the business sense, it’s easy to quantify when you think about culture.” Of all the numbers Jon Olinto ’98 can rattle off following the first year of One […]
“Without bundling investment in preschool care with care for younger children, with after-school care, with summer care, it still is very difficult—if you have a child enrolled in school—to work if you’re also a primary caregiver of a child. And counterintuitively, it appears to be in some cases easier for already privileged groups of […]
Her suggestion became the course “RE285: Faith, Class, and Community,” in which students worked with various local faith-based organizations to learn firsthand about their programs supporting the community and, in the process, document them so that others, including the organizations themselves, could learn from one another’s efforts. “I think I had all these lofty ideas,” […]
