Colby was ranked number seven in Sierra Magazine’s Cool School list, released Sept. 3. The schools in this list display “a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate change, and encouraging environmental responsibility through their curriculum and on-campus operations,” according to the magazine. In 2013 Colby became the fourth college or university to achieve...
A poem by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, was selected for the Portland Press Herald’s series Deep Water: Maine Poems. “Screaming Woman,” White’s poem, “offers a troubling and refracted portrait of a woman’s very public disassembling. Rather than hold that portrait at an arm’s length, the poem implicates us all in it,” the series’ curator Gibson Fay-LeBlanc...
Loren McClenachan was quoted in the National Geographic article titled “The silent decline of the platypus, Australia’s beloved oddity.” The decline was noted in a study that made use of historical data, which is McClenachan’s specialty. “For species like platypus, whose population declines happened before ecologists started studying them, these types of historical observations are extremely valuable,”...
Gary Green, associate professor of art, had his work chosen for JRNL NO. 2, published by Fotofilmic, a gallery and publisher in Vancouver. Green’s work was juried by U.K. photo book publishers Stanley/Barker and will be included in Fotofilmic‘s next photography publication, which will include 11 other artists from all over the world.
Colby has been ranked the number one overall top performer among baccalaureate institutions in the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) 2019 Sustainable Campus Index. The College was also ranked number one in the “air and climate” category and ranked in the top 10 in the “campus engagement,” “public engagement,” and “well-being...
Jim Condron ’92, a sculptor and artist from Baltimore, has a new exhibition at Wilson College library’s Sue Davison Cooley Gallery opening Sept. 4. Titled You Never Wash it Off Completely, the exhibit uses relics and artifacts from the college that Condron collected with the help of “Wilson archivists, professors, and students to construct compelling art installations...
The French newspaper Le Monde interviewed Raffael Scheck, Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris. The interview, conducted in French, asked Scheck the question: why were there no black soldiers in the Free French division that liberated Paris? Scheck answered “that this division, which had become an armored division,...
L. Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, gave comments on the FOX news story titled “Trump says Jewish Americans who vote Democrat show ‘lack of knowledge’ or ‘complete disloyalty’,” which aired Aug. 23. Maisel’s comments begin at 1:30 seconds in the two-minute Associated Press story.
The startup software company Eariously, co-founded by Nick Rimsa ’13, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute. The grant will allow Rimsa to “continue working with software design and development specialists to bring its product to market,” the Central Maine Growth Council reported. Eariously software converts digital text—from a website, a PDF,...
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, has an essay titled “Red Summer, Trump Summer and the politics of hate,” in Religion News Service. “Living memories of terror and exclusion within my family became personal, cultural and social capital, enabling and motivating my parents to resist discrimination...
Raffael Scheck, the Audrey Wade Hittinger Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, was interviewed for BBC Newsday on Aug. 15, which marked the 75th anniversary of Operation Dragoon, an event that “paved the way for the Allied invasion of southern France during World War Two.” In the four-minute interview, Scheck told the BBC that the...
The final beam for the new athletic center was hoisted into place Aug. 6, completing the skeleton of the building, reports the Morning Sentinel. “It’s the largest single project in the college’s history, according to Colby President David A. Greene,” the Sentinel said. “In April 2017, Greene said the athletic complex was one of two things, the other being the arts,...
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, was quoted in the article “From New York to Alabama, blacks worshipped in own spaces before slavery’s end” in Religion News Service Aug. 1. The article looks at the buildings and the religious practices used by blacks during and after...
The latest New York Times op-ed by Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, looks at a new word used by Democratic presidential candidates: structural. “Some of what the candidates are up to by using the term ‘structural’ is merely rhetorical, signaling the boldness of their ideas,” he wrote. “Yet ‘structural’ is also a...
WalletHub reached out to Patrice Franko, the Grossman Professor of Economics and Global Studies, for her expert opinion on international credit cards. In the short Q&A format, Franko answered the question What’s the biggest credit card mistake that international travelers make? with “Walking the beach with a wallet full of cards. Take one — and for me the...
“Notes from the Underground” is the name of the essay by Lyn Mikel Brown, professor of education, that appeared in DownEast magazine’s Maine Homes May-June issue. The essay tells the story of Brown’s father, who recorded daily events on the floor beams of his home in Alexander, Maine. “Each year, my father recorded the first frost, the first...
In a July 10 NPR story titled “The Famous Big 5 Personality Test Might Not Reveal The True You,” Assistant Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto is quoted repeatedly on the origins of the test as well as a recent study testing its effectiveness in developing countries. Researchers are finding “that in many of these developing...
Lindsay Mayka, assistant professor of government, co-wrote an article titled “Brazil’s Supreme Court pushed back against an attempt to cancel participatory councils” that appeared July 8 on Vox‘s Mischiefs of Faction political science blog. The article discusses Brazil’s participatory councils and a recent Supreme Court injunction that blocked President Jair Bolsonaro’s decree to dismantle them. “The participatory...
A Q&A with human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, the 2010 Fellow at Colby’s Oak Institute for Human Rights, appeared in a Radio Voice of the People piece titled “Honour & Valour: The Story Of Jestina Mukoko.” Mukoko discusses her 2008 abduction by the Mugabe government in Zimbabwe as well as her book, The Abduction and Trial of...
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was quoted in a June 26 article on Vox titled “Why Democrats think 2020 is the year they can defeat Susan Collins” in which he expressed skepticism about Collins’s moderate image. “Despite the fact she would like to be, she is not John McCain, Maisel said, referring...
