Faculty Accomplishments
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Nichole Price, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory who holds a research faculty appointment at Colby, was honored with a Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council. The award recognizes individuals who exhibit outstanding innovation, creativity, and commitment to protecting natural resources within the Gulf of Maine. "Through her leadership, expertise, and willingness to forge partnerships with government, industry, and non-profits, Nichole has expanded our understanding about complex environmental challenges and advanced innovative solutions for sustainable seafood in the Gulf of Maine," said the council in a press release.
Associate Professor of English Aaron Hanlon has been awarded a New England Humanities Consortium seed grant as a co-principal investigator on the project "Fact, Fiction, and Disinformation: A Computational Analysis of Fossil Fuel Writing Across Genres." Using a large dataset of published fiction about oil and coal, the team will analyze and compare the language of these fictional works, newspaper articles, op-ed pieces, amateur writing, and false information (including that disseminated by the fossil fuel industry) about fossil fuels.
Adam Howard, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education, presented a paper at a featured symposium at the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference. His paper, "Secret Brotherhoods: Accessing the Hidden Worlds of Elite All-Boys Schools," was for the symposium "Elite private boys' schooling, feminism and gender justice: Reimagining research in a post #metoo world."
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch served as a member of the jury for the defense of Augustto Corrêa Cipriani’s doctoral thesis at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In 2018-19, Cipriani (majoring in literary studies with a concentration in literary theory and comparative literature) spent six months at Colby conducting research under Plesch’s supervision. His thesis, “Contemporary Brazilian Writing: Handwriting in the Work of Guilherme Zarvos e Gustavo Speridão,” combines word and image studies, intermediality, and, in particular, graffiti as a framework for considering poems and visual works.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates has been invited to deliver remarks and conduct a panel discussion at a public webinar organized by Resources for the Future. The workshop, "Offshore Wind: Today’s Challenges and Tomorrow’s Opportunities,” will take place Thursday, Dec. 2, and is freely available to the public. Bates will share major lessons learned from her research and deliver remarks about developing local benefits alongside government, advocacy, industry, and university representatives. The event is contextualized within the current White House goals of meeting climate targets through offshore wind. More information about the event, including registration, can be found here.
Assistant Professor of Psychology Veronica Romero '09 and Margaret Hall '20 has coauthored a new paper, "Emotion in Motion: Investigating the Relationship between Interpersonal Motor Coordination and Emotional States," accepted in the Journal of Modern Psychological Studies, which focuses on undergraduate research. This paper came from the study Hall designed and conducted as part of Romero's seminar Collaborative Research in Human Movement.
Associate Professor of Mathematics Scott Taylor has coauthored a paper published in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. In their paper, "Tunnel number and bridge number of composite genus 2 spatial graphs," the authors' "main tool is a family of recently defined invariants for knots, links, and spatial graphs that detect the unknot and are additive under connected sum and vertex sum. In this paper, we also show that they detect trivial θ-curves," according to the paper's abstract.
Adam Howard, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education, coauthored a paper recently published in the journal Curriculum Inquiry. Titled "Elite Universities: Their monstrous promises and promising monsters," it deploys "zombie, werewolf, and vampire metaphors [to] identify various ways that elite universities are monstrous and the kinds of student monsters that they produce, honour, harbour, and reject."
Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman has published a new paper, "Late Holocene dust provenance at Siple Dome, Antarctica," with scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the University of Maine, Orono, and the University of Lille in France. Appearing in Quaternary Science Reviews, "the paper documents the composition of dust in the Siple Dome ice core from Antarctica and uses geochemistry to identify likely dust sources," she explained. "Siple Dome mineral dust has an unusual composition compared to other Antarctic ice cores, and we demonstrate that a key source of dust must be the ancient bedrock underlying parts of East Antarctica. We suggest that this old source of dust is more widespread than previously recognized and may be a unique tracer of atmospheric circulation patterns around Antarctica."
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates is an organizing committee member of the international webinar series "Winds of Change: Offshore Energy Production and the Social Sciences.” This webinar highlights major findings from Europe and research needs for the emerging offshore wind industry in the United States. Each webinar is free and open to students, faculty, and practitioners, including this one on Nov. 11. Bates is presenting her research during the series and is an organizing committee member along with colleagues at the University of Maine and Bates College.