Professor of Government Anthony Corrado was quoted in the CNBC article titled “Presidential candidate Andrew Yang will give $1,000 a month to 10 more families,” following Yang’s announcement at the Sept. 12 presidential debate. Corrado, a campaign finance expert, told CNBC that Yang’s plans could raise legal issues. “If the payments are made from the campaign,...
Professor of English and Creative Writing Michael Burked penned a light-hearted essay that appeared in the Appalachian Mountain Club Outdoors magazine. Titled “A Maine River Guide Reflects on Taking His Grown Kids Paddling,” the essay recounts the author’s feelings at giving his children instructions before rafting a stretch of the Kennebec River in western Maine. “My charges...
Jennifer Coane, associate professor of psychology, was quoted in the Sept. 10 Washington Post article “Did a cashier steal 1,300 credit card numbers with a ‘photographic memory?’ Experts doubt it.” Coane, who studies how memory works, told the Post that recalling the world in vivid detail would make daily functioning difficult, “You could never be able to erase anything...
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities, an anthology co-edited by Jay Sibara, assistant professor of English, has received critical reviews in top environmental literature and disability studies journals, including in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Disability & Society, and Disability Studies Quarterly, which said the book “delivers a marvelous first-of-its-kind compendium in this quickly growing and dynamic intersection...
An essay by Aaron Hanlon, assistant professor of English, appeared in Inside Higher Ed Sept. 9. His piece, titled “Centering the Humanities,” discusses how “humanities centers and institutes are key to improving the image of the humanities among the public and policy makers.” Hanlon argues that institutions need to better define what the humanities are and to...
An Artscope magazine article titled “Masterful Collections: Maine’s Universities Showcase America’s Best” calls out the Colby College Museum of Art, noting artists in its permanent collection such as John Marin, Alex Katz, and James McNeill Whistler as well as its current exhibitions, including Wíwənikan…the beauty we carry and Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That...
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Arisa White has earned attention in the California media. Her book Biddy Mason Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books Aug. 18. The book recounts the story of “a woman who was born a slave in Georgia in 1818 and died a successful businesswoman and philanthropist...
A report by Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was referenced in the op-ed “When is America going to end its shadow war in Somalia?” in the Sept. 5 Guardian. The report, titled “The Costs of War in Somalia,” was just released by the Cost of War project at Brown University’s Watson...
Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, wrote the article “To Cure Ebola Will Take More Than a Pill” that appeared in Foreign Affairs Sept. 4. While experimental drugs are helping the country with its latest Ebola outbreak, “eradicating Ebola in Congo will require building public trust among Congolese and working with community organizations in order to reach...
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...
