External Posts
News Center Maine’s “207” takes a closer look at the Colby Museum of Art’s new Bernard Langlais exhibition, Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates, now on view at the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.
An essay by Zixiao "Max" Wang '26, titled "'We’d Stumbled Out the Door': Reclaiming Female Subjectivity in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets," was published in the Bangalore Review. Wang, who is majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing, analyzes the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection and says, "In frank: sonnets, Seuss reshapes female subjectivity through candid exploration of power dynamics, gender, and sexuality, combined with confessions of vulnerability." Wang writes in both English and French and is particularly interested in experimental forms and cross-cultural narratives.
Leading politics and policy publication The Hill called on Dan Shea, the Marson-Muller-McNulty Professor of Government, for an important article that previewed the 2026 Maine Senate races.
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society Ashton Wesner published a research article in Osiris, the flagship journal of the History of Science Society. Titled “Making Sturgeon Count: Settler Colonial (De)mobilizations of Fish in the Columbia River,” the article is truly interdisciplinary and deeply critical. Wesner’s work "uses ethnographic data, hatchery archives, scientific reports, and the published testimonies of Yakama and other Indigenous fishers to reveal the relationship between settler colonial cultural and empirical practices of measuring, monitoring, and monetizing sturgeon and their movements from the late 1800s to the present,” according to the paper's abstract.
The Albany Times Union consulted Gail Carlson, assistant professor of environmental studies, for a widely circulated article on PFAS removal, where she highlighted the importance of such projects while also warning of the potential health and exposure risks.
Dr. Nirav Shah, incoming visiting professor of statistics, was a leading source in a recent Boston Globe public health guide and update on important topics such as COVID-19, measles, vaccines, and more.
The New York Times interviewed Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross about his ongoing research involving politics on college campuses for an article about student involvement in off-campus conservative-backed institutes.
Boston Art Review featured the Colby Museum of Art’s upcoming and highly anticipated exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery in its round-up of must-see summer installations.
Mitchell Family Professor of Economics Andreas Waldkirch is at the head of the national conversation about tariffs. The Associated Press turned to him for a story that circulated in major broadcast and print outlets, including ABC News and the Washington Post.
The Atlantic interviewed Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, for a major article on the rise of academic centers at red-state public universities designed to attract conservative scholars.