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The Morning Sentinel covered the recent appointment of Matt Proto as Colby's vice president and chief institutional advancement officer. "Proto joined Colby in 2015 and had most recently been vice president for enrollment and communications and dean of admissions and financial aid," the Sentinel reported.

Upcoming community events with the Lunder Institute for American Art's inaugural resident fellows, Jose Barrionuevo and Adriane Herman, were noted by the Morning Sentinel. "For Jacqueline Terrassa, director of the Colby College Museum of Art, the events are the culmination of much planning and work ... to make the processes behind art more visible and transparent," the Sentinel reported.

The New Yorker reviewed the Colby College Museum of Art's previous exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960. The exhibition, which originated at Colby, "reminds us of something we tend to lose sight of when we get caught up in the critical business of trying to situate Pop in an art-history genealogy, or to unpack it as social critique, which is that Pop art is funny," Louis Menand writes.

WABI-TV covered a series of current construction projects occurring across campus. "What’s happening now this summer is a fundamental transformation of this campus," said Brian Clark, vice president of planning told WABI-TV.

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch organized and chaired the session “The River: Reality, Myth, and Metaphor” (Le Fleuve: Réalité, Mythe, et Métaphore) at the international conference “Water and Sea in Word and Image” (L’Eau et la mer dans les textes et les images) held at the University of Luxembourg July 12–16, 2021 (originally scheduled for July 2020, the conference was postponed and was held online). Plesch also delivered a paper. In “The River of Life: Drawing Lessons from Thomas Cole in Images and Words,” she considered works that present surprising connections with Maine: a young Waterville lady painted a copy after Thomas Cole (today in Waterville Historical Society); a minister, who hailed from Hallowell and settled in New York City, acquired the four paintings that form Cole’s The Voyage of Life and had them reproduced; and a mate from a schooner from Machias, Maine, annotated a copy of a book that draws moral lessons from Cole’s series. All these instances bear witness to the reception of Cole’s celebrated paintings while, combined with writings by Cole himself and by others, as well as with prints and paintings reproducing The Voyage of Life, weave a fascinating fabric of word and image interactions.

A series of construction projects are underway around campus, including a rotary intersection and continued work on athletic fields and the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, reports the Morning Sentinel. "The projects are all about supporting the academic experience and improving accessibility and availability to students, faculty, staff, and the community," according to Brian Clark, vice president of planning at Colby.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Tamar Friedmann has coauthored a new paper, "Euler’s reflection formula, infinite product formulas, and the correspondence principle of quantum mechanics," recently published in Journal of Mathematical Physics.

The Art Newspaper wrote an extensive review of the Colby Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition, Bob Thompson: This House is Mine. The piece noted that the show provides a “sweeping exploration of his career,” and that “visitors can puzzle over Thompson’s provocative artistic responses."

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jin Goh and Jameson McCue '22 have coauthored a new paper titled "Perceived Prototypicality of Asian Subgroups in the United States and the United Kingdom." Accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the study "examined how (non-Asian) Americans and Britons perceive different Asian subgroups in terms of how prototypically Asian and how foreign they seem."

Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, Emeritus, and a congressional expert, weighed in on a Globe & Mail article that analyzed the challenges facing Democratic presidents and the current state of political affairs in the U.S. “Being in the majority is not always great, but it is always better than being in the minority,” Maisel commented.