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Loren McClenachan, the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, commented on an article about curbing the shark fin trade that appeared on the news platform Mongabay. Since tracing dried products like shark fin is nearly impossible, “high-tech approaches like genetic barcoding and niche modeling are key to solving this conservation problem," McClenachan said. "If we can correctly identify the locations of sharks supplying global markets, conservation efforts can protect vulnerable species in the water, where they’re at risk."

Professor of Creative Writing Debra Spark and her new book, And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing, were the subject of an interview on the podcast First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing. In the interview, Spark talks about how much she enjoys interviewing people. "It’s fun for me, meeting people and talking to them. I feel like for anyone who writes, whether you publish or not, it’s a chance to make your world a little bigger and go places you couldn’t otherwise go." The website Literary Hub picked up the interview and reposted it on their site.

Various media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald and Maine Public, covered Colby's news announcing the most recent results from a Maine Senate race poll conducted by faculty in Colby's Department of Government.

USA TODAY and the Wall Street Journal ran stories covering the most recent poll conducted by Colby Department of Government faculty members.  The poll shows a statistical dead heat between Democrat Sara Gideon and Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins. Professor of Government Dan Shea noted there hasn't been much change in poll numbers over recent months. "For all that money, and all this attention, and all those efforts, the electorate seems pretty well stuck where they started several months ago," he told USA TODAY.

News of a recent gift to Colby honoring Joan Dignam Schmaltz ’63 and Richard “Dick” Schmaltz ’62 was covered by the Morning Sentinel. “Where we are in our stage with our relationship with Waterville is that this should be positive, mutually beneficial and eternal,” Colby College President David A. Greene said in a phone interview Tuesday. “This should not be something that ends in the next couple years or has a timeline on it. It should be an ongoing commitment for Colby to have a partnership with Waterville.”

Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, has published a new book titled Militarized Global Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2020). The book "offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south," according to the publisher.

Raffael Scheck, the Audrey Wade Hittinger Katz and Sheldon Toby Katz Professor of History, has published a new book titled Love between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His latest work "explores the forbidden relationships which formed between foreign prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War," according to the publisher.

The latest book by James R. Fleming, Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, First Woman: Joanne Simpson and the Tropical Atmosphere (Oxford University Press, 2020), details the life of pioneering meteorologist Joanne Simpson (1923-2010). Fleming, the first to write a comprehensive biography of Simpson, spent five years mining her archive at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute to bring her story to life. He was the first to read her personal diaries, containing details of a love affair and her passion for life. “This settles it,” Fleming said upon finding the diaries. “I’ve got to write this up.” Read more about Fleming's book at Colby Magazine.

Professor of Government Dan Shea was tapped to comment on an NBC Boston story about President Trump's recent visit to Maine's second district, which gave an electoral vote to Trump in 2016. "In a contentious election year, Shea says that single vote could play an outsized role under the right circumstances," the story reported. "There are a number of scenarios across the nation where one electoral vote could actually make the difference," Shea explained.

Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, an expert on campaign finance reform, talked with NewsCenter Maine to suggest ways to spend leftover dollars from Maine's unprecedented 2020 Senate race. His suggestions include keeping the money "and using it in the next election campaign or a future election campaign" or giving "an unlimited amount to charity organizations."