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Wadsworth Professor of Economics Michael Donihue '79 is part of a multi-institution study to determine if Maine seaweed added to the diet of cows can curb bovine methane emissions, which contribute to climate change. Donihue, Assistant Professor of Economics Jennifer Meredith, and students in the Economics Department's laboratory for economic studies will see if a final product of the feed testing—research led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and the University of Vermont—would be cost effective. The Bangor Daily News covered the story Oct. 30

The latest exhibition by artist Jim Condron '92 was reviewed by ÆQAI magazine Oct. 26. The review covers Condron's show You Never Wash It Off Completely, on exhibit at Wilson College's Cooley Art Gallery. The show was commissioned by Wilson College as part of its sesquicentennial celebration and draws upon the institution's history. "In Condron’s art, the objects of our world are both permanent and provisional, continuing eternally, being made and remade," the review said.

The Portland Press Herald reached out to Professor of Government Anthony Corrado to comment on a story titled "Out-of-state donors flood Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race" regarding the state's 2020 Senate race. “What you’re seeing is just the tip of the iceberg – there will be an enormous surge of online giving next year, particularly if the race is so close," Corrado told the Herald.

Colby's 2019 Lovejoy Award was covered by several media outlets in Maine, including a Portland Press Herald op-ed by David Shribman, chair of the Lovejoy Selection Committee and retired vice president and executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Maine Public interviewed filmmaker Martin Smith, a panelist at the award ceremony and creator of the PBS Frontline documentary The Crown Prince of Saudia Arabia. 

Colby's 2019 Lovejoy Award was covered by several media outlets in Maine, including a Portland Press Herald op-ed by David Shribman, chair of the Lovejoy Selection Committee and retired vice president and executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Maine Public interviewed filmmaker Martin Smith, a panelist at the award ceremony and creator of the PBS Frontline documentary The Crown Prince of Saudia Arabia. 

In a Washington Post essay by Assistant Professor of English Aaron Hanlon titled "The real threat to free speech on campus isn’t coming from the left," Hanlon argues that, "For years now, conservative pundits and politicians have amplified and exploited a small number of elite-college speech controversies for political gain. The benefit of hindsight shows they’ve been crying wolf."

Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations, is coauthor of an article in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs titled "America’s Great Satan: The 40-Year Obsession With Iran." When historians look back at countries most feared by the United States following the end of the Cold War, "only one country would be depicted as a persistent and implacable foe: Iran," the authors wrote. "In its official rhetoric and strategic documents, Washington has, since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, consistently portrayed the country as a purely hostile and dangerous actor."

On Oct. 15 Colby announced results of an independent economic impact study, which received attention from various media outlets around the country.

Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, is the featured speaker at the New Hampshire Geological Society's fall meeting. Gastaldo talk is titled "The Terrestrial Record of the End-Permian Mass Extinction – Karoo Province, South Africa," which will discuss the end-Permian extinction event as it is recorded in South Africa, as a model for the Sixth Extinction that we now face. Gastaldo will be joined by Colby's Instructional Technologist Tim Stonesifer, and together they will show a virtual reality "tour" through one of the classic South African localities, Bethel farm, in the Free State. Last year Gastaldo and Stonesifer presented this "tour" during last year's GSA meetings in Indianapolis where participants put on VR goggles and "fly" through the locality and inspect the geology at various spatial scales, immersing themselves in a 360-degree view of the research area.