In an article titled “Are Historians Doing Enough to Address Climate Change?,” the author, Walter G. Moss, cited a 1998 book by Jim Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. After citing the opinions of others on the dearth of historical writing on climate change, Moss writes, “Fleming’s words of 1998—’Since the mid-1980s,...
In the days leading up to the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a 2004 article by James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, saw an uptick in page views. Fleming’s article, “Sverre Petterssen and the contentious (and momentous) weather forecasts for D-Day,” saw a 97-percent increase in page views, according to academia.edu....
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was quoted in the article “Calling all challengers” in Pine Tree Watch. As speculation on whether or not Susan Collins will be re-elected builds, pundits are weighing in. “I think there is more dissatisfaction than at any other time,” Maisel told Pine Tree Watch. “Certainly from Progressives, especially women,...
An article by Assistant Professor of Government Lindsay Mayka and government and economics major Andrés Lovón ’21 was published in the May 23 Washington Post. Titled “How one company’s deep web of corruption took down governments across Latin America,” the article breaks down a large bribery scandal that played out across several Latin American countries, including...
Julia Nelson ’19 and Catherine Fraser ’19, students in the class Environment and Human Health, had letters to the editor published in Waterville’s Morning Sentinel. Both letters urged support for L.D. 1433, “An Act to Protect the Environment and Public Health by Further Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Packaging,” a bill currently before the Maine Legislature. Nelson’s letter, printed May 20,...
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance selected Appalachians Run Amok, a book of poems by Adrian Blevins, professor of creative writing, as one of three finalists for its Maine Literary Award in Poetry. Winners will be revealed live at a ceremony Thursday, June 13, at the Bangor Public Library. Contact director@mainewriters.org for tickets and more information.
In an article titled “Where the Buffs Roam” Down East magazine asked “10 art-world luminaries,” including Sharon Corwin, director and chief curator of the Colby College Museum of Art, “to share the under-the-radar places where they find great Maine art.” Corwin recommended the Langlais Sculpture Preserve in Cushing to see the wooden sculptures by Bernard Langlais. “To experience...
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 (at the bottom of the page) encouraged readers to “urge their Maine lawmakers to pass LD 1433, a bill that...
Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, an exhibition by Theaster Gates at the Colby College Museum of Art, was reviewed in the Boston Globe May 9. The exhibition includes cabinets holding “3,000 photographs and page mockups from Ebony and Jet through the years, specifically of women,” the Globe reports. “There’s something monumental about it: The cabinets emanate significance and...
The Los Angeles Times cited James R. Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, in an article titled “The real climate change controversy: Whether to engineer the planet in order to fix it.” The article is very loosely based on Fleming’s book, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control.
In a Mainebiz article titled “Maine’s colleges and universities find new, innovative areas for growth,” Colby is highlighted for its investment in downtown Waterville. President David A. Greene told Mainebiz that “in order to remain relevant, Maine colleges must continue building open, collaborative relationships with their communities.” Of note were four projects Colby has undertaken downtown, including...
Students in the Humanities Lab “Life in Times of Extinction” published an op-ed in the Times Record titled “Brown Ash Endangerment and Indigenous Solutions.” Grace Neumiller ’21, Keller Leet-Otley ’19, and Tommaso Wagner ’19 wrote the letter for the class, taught by Chris Walker, the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities, as part of their assignment to adopt and...
Professor of Psychology Martha Arterberry was profiled by the psychology journal Infant Behavior & Development, at which she serves as editor-in-chief. The profile shows how her path from undergraduate work at Pomona College, to an exchange program at Swarthmore College, to graduate work at the University of Minnesota kept her research focused on infant perception. Arterberry finds...
Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, reviewed Biased, a new book by Jennifer Eberhardt, in the Sunday New York Times. Gross called the book an “unexpectedly poignant overview of the research on cognitive biases and stereotypes, especially racial bias in criminal justice.”
Two Colby teams were named as “Meritorious Winner” at the 35th annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Competition organized by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP). This year, 14,108 teams from 17 countries and regions participated in the competition. Colby’s first team, consisting of Allen Ma ’21, Huan Bui ’21, and Schu He...
An essay by Assistant Professor of English Aaron Hanlon, titled “The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb” appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education April 19. The essay highlights the large number of adjunct professors at colleges and universities and what Hanlon calls “the cruelty of adjunctification,” where professors work year-to-year without the prospect of tenure. “We...
Colby’s annual spring day of service, Colby Cares Day, was covered in the Morning Sentinel April 20. The article, “Colby students lend a hand at Waterville area organizations for Colby Cares Day,” focused on just two of the numerous sites where Colby students lent a hand: the L.C. Bates Museum and the Waterville Public Library....
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson was in Augusta, Maine, April 17 testifying at the State House and urging “legislators to ban certain food-packaging that contain synthetic chemicals known as PFAS and phthalates,” Maine Public reported. Carlson and some of her students testified in favor of a new bill that would ban these chemicals...
Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, a campaign-finance expert, was quoted in an April 16 CNN article titled “2020 fundraising: Top takeaways from the first quarter.” The fact that only half of the 16 Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 have raised $3 million or less is “a sign that Democratic donors haven’t yet coalesced...
In the spring of 2015, Eric Roy ’04 said he got a tip from an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retiree about high lead levels in the water in Flint, Mich. This was before the people of Flint fully understood what was in their water. And way before Flint became a public health crisis. A chemist...
