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Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto has published a new paper, exploring the link between gender and extraversion, in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. "The Big Five personality traits have been linked with a broad range of consequential life outcomes," writes Soto in the abstract. "The present research systematically tested whether such trait–outcome associations generalize across gender, age, ethnicity, and analytic approaches that control for demographic and personality covariates."
Like Woodstock, “by the end it was muddy and dirty,” commented Colby Professor of Government Dan Shea in a story on rural Maine’s reaction to the expensive, no holds barred advertising from the two leading candidates in the state’s Senate Race.
The Wall Street Journal featured Colby’s Pay It Northward initiative in a story about young job seekers tapping alumni networks. The article references how “almost 700 alumni and parents came forward” to help this year’s graduates, and highlights the great success of the campaign for both students and employers.
The editorial called the Colby College Museum of Art's recent Jacob Lawrence acquisition a "small part of an effort to provide a fuller, richer account" of the untold history of race and oppression in America. The piece also notes that the 15 silkscreen prints are an important part of Lawrence's portrayal of the Black narrative.
Colby student entrepreneurs were highlighted in a Morning Sentinel article about pitching their businesses to judges from the EMMY-nominated Greenlight Maine. Nine Colby companies were represented in the competition, and a winner will be selected to participate in an episode of the show's Collegiate Challenge next spring.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie has coauthored a paper, "Recurrent neural network reveals overwhelming sentiment against 2017 review of US monuments from humans and bots," published in the journal Conservation Letters. "US federal agencies solicit public comments to scope for ideas, solve problems, and use the best available science for policy‐making, legislation, and management," writes the authors in their abstract. Using machine learning techniques, the study analyzes "comments received by the Department of the Interior in response to the proposed executive review of 27 national monuments designated and expanded between 1996 and 2016."
Associate Professor of French Mouhamédoul Niang published a new paper, "In defense of secular modernity: Politicizing the body and space in Malika Mokeddem’s Of Dreams and Assassins," in the Journal of the African Literature Association. "This paper argues that Malika Mokeddem champions secular modernity through Kenza, the female protagonist in Of Dreams and Assassins," according to the abstract. "It examines the processes and practices that shape her as a secular modern woman who castigates exclusivist identities that intolerant religious and state patriarchies seek to impose on Algerians in two different contexts of historical discontinuities."
Colby was prominently featured in a MarketWatch story on how colleges plan to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as students return home for the holiday break. The article quotes Vice President for Administration Doug Terp on how the goal is to "keep everybody in the bubble right up until Thanksgiving so we know they’re safe and healthy.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs spoke to the Morning Sentinel about voter turnout and whether Maine municipalities "flipped" political parties from 2016 to 2020, noting that "in most places across the country, voting patterns remain the same or further polarized."
The New York Times covered the range of plans colleges are implementing as Thanksgiving and the end of the semester approaches, highlighting Colby's success at keeping the virus "at bay" and the proactive measures being taken to keep its community safe over the holiday break and upon returning to campus.