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“This is a very difficult problem for Biden,” said Professor of Government Dan Shea in the Globe and Mail article "Capitol Hill assault will complicate Joe Biden’s presidency." (Also viewable here.) “We are in an era when each side views the other as the enemy, when each side thinks the other is a danger to the country, when there is no trust whatsoever," Shea said. "There is a crisis of trust coursing throughout the political system.”

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has coauthored a new paper on litigation and climate justice published in the journal Climate Policy. This paper, which was co-authored with Colby students Charles Beauregard '20, D'Arcy Carlson '21, Charlie Cobb '20, and Mykela Patton '22, develops a new rights-based framework and applies it to three high-profile climate litigation cases. It concludes that litigation cannot deliver all types of justice and should, therefore, be one of several policy tools in the fight against climate change.

The 2019 project-based "Digital Projects in History" seminar taught by James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, was featured in the January 2021 newsletter of the History of Science Society. The article also contains a section by Ben Steib '21, who was a student in the class and is currently Fleming's research assistant. 

A new paper coauthored by Professor of Education Adam Howard has just been published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. The paper, "Conferred cosmopolitanism: class-making strategies of elite schools across the world," looks at how elite schools "work to produce subjects that will thrive in a globalized world." Howard and his coauthor, Claire Maxwell (University of Copenhagen), conclude that "ultimately, these elite institutions are seeking to create an elite class by conferring a cosmopolitan status on their students which will have direct convertibility for the specific futures being envisioned for them."

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed two essays to the 2021 winter issue of the Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, titled “A Conversation with James Fangbone" and “When More is Better: Horror Vacui in History." She also wrote the introduction to this issue, dedicated to Maximalism: Courting Chaos or Creating Order?

“A truly inclusive environment is to the benefit of everybody,” said Jacqueline Terrassa, the Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby Museum of Art, in the Portland Press Herald article "New faces, fresh perspectives leading Maine museums." Terrassa, a Puerto Rican, is one of five new directors of color leading prominent Maine art or cultural institutions. "If we create room where the 6 percent feel they belong and they have ownership and voice," Terrassa told the Press Herald, "it is to the benefit of the rest.” 

The Central Maine Growth Council has named Josh Kim '22 its 2020 Emerging Leader of the Year, the Morning Sentinel reports. Kim, an entrepreneur who founded the startup The Cubby, is the first college student to receive the award. "Josh is an example of the region’s brilliant young talent, local ingenuity, and an emerging cluster of software development tech startups and innovators in downtown Waterville," said Garvan Donegan, CMGC's director of planning, innovation, and economic development.

An article in the New Hampshire Union Leader titled "Tapping your network: Grads reach out to alumni for jobs" includes an extensive section about Colby's Pay It Northward initiative. The article features Eric Post '06, who hired two Colby graduates to work at ITR Economics, where Post is a senior economist and econ manager. "When you get interconnections, it takes some of the risk off the table from an employer perspective and gives you greater comfort that you are getting the person as advertised.” Post said.

Chris Myers Asch, a visiting instructor in the History Department, was quoted in the op-ed "D.C.’s Black churches will remain a ‘beacon of light’," written in the aftermath of the Dec. 12 pro-Trump rally in the nation's capital. Black churches “are a place where Black people can make their grievances heard, both to the city and, because it’s D.C., to the nation," Asch said. "They are important sites for community-building and political organizing in black communities throughout our country.”

Insider Advantage Georgia gives an overview of the acting career of Will Hochman '14, who is a new face on the CBS drama Blue Bloods. Highlights of Hochman's career include a role in Broadway's The Sound Inside and in the film Let Him Go.