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In the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, an article coauthored by Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Loren McClenachan concludes that there are "opportunities to integrate findings from historical ecology with other perspectives to create forward-looking management strategies that are rooted in place and past." The article,”Past Forward: Recommendations from historical ecology for ecosystem management” was published online Nov. 2. Full text is available online. It reviewed more than 200 historical ecology studies and analyzed recommendations for ecosystem management emerging from the field.

When Today on NBC compiled its list "Five Things Introverts Can Teach People," the show quoted Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto on knowing when to say "no" and on not oversharing. “Extroverts are more at risk of … just dumping things on people and disclosing too much information and not having a filter,” Soto said for the Nov. 7 online feature.

In its "Connections" feature, the Nov. 1 Boston Globe Magazine published an essay by Lloyd Benson '73 about a dozen friends who regularly get together now a half century since their arrival at Colby. "These men have beaten the odds to stay friends for 50 years," the headline announced. "The resulting friendships have seen them through life's ups and downs."

In its "Connections" feature, the Nov. 1 Boston Globe Magazine published an essay by Lloyd Benson '73 about a dozen friends who regularly get together now a half century since their arrival at Colby. "These men have beaten the odds to stay friends for 50 years," the headline announced. "The resulting friendships have seen them through life's ups and downs."

Mike Wisecup, recently named Colby's new Harold Alfond Director of Athletics, told a Morning Sentinel columnist that words he used on Navy SEAL teams also apply on the playing field: honor, integrity, teamwork, leadership. A varsity swimmer as an undergraduate at the U.S. Naval Academy, Wisecup will direct an athletics program with 32 varsity teams and will oversee the transition when Colby's new 350,00-square-foot athletic center opens in 2020.

Central Maine’s economy is trending upwards, and Colby has a lot to do with it, the executive director of FirstPark writes in a Central Maine Newspapers oped. Colby is leading the way with $1.5 billion in statewide economic output linked to the College over the last five years, and "local businesses are following suit, developing new, cutting-edge ideas and seeing them through to produce real-world benefits," writes Jim Dinkle. The Community Compass column was published Nov. 4 in the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal newpapers.

Central Maine’s economy is trending upwards, and Colby has a lot to do with it, the executive director of FirstPark writes in a Central Maine Newspapers oped. Colby is leading the way with $1.5 billion in statewide economic output linked to the College over the last five years, and "local businesses are following suit, developing new, cutting-edge ideas and seeing them through to produce real-world benefits," writes Jim Dinkle. The Community Compass column was published Nov. 4 in the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal newpapers.

On the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's "silent majority" speech, writer David Shribman draws a line to current politics and divisions and quotes Sandy Maisel, Colby's Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government. In analysis published in the Boston Globe, Shribman writes that Nixon was convinced that "the leading news organizations and antiwar protesters did not represent mainstream American thinking" when he appealed to the "silent majority." Maisel told Shribman, “What was the silent majority has become very loud. ... The people who formed the silent majority in 1969 represented a majority in the Electoral College in 2016, and they defined their mission as making America great again.’’

Wadsworth Professor of Economics Michael Donihue ’79, who served at the president's Council of Economic Advisors in a prior administration, provided economic data about the scale of the lobster industry in Maine for a Nov. 1 Washington Post business article headlined "Lobster on the Line: China loves Maine lobster, but Trump’s trade war means Canada is filling the demand." The article reports that Donihue's data show that the "economic impact of just the lobster distribution supply chain exceeds $1 billion each year—or at least 1.6 percent of Maine’s GDP."

The Washington Times quoted Professor of Government Anthony Corrado on early fundraising for upcoming elections for U.S. Senate races. "Some of the Democratic challengers have been unusually successful for this point in the campaign and a number of the Republican incumbents are not showing much fundraising momentum," Corrado told the paper for an Oct. 28 story.