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A report by Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was referenced in the op-ed "When is America going to end its shadow war in Somalia?" in the Sept. 5 Guardian. The report, titled "The Costs of War in Somalia," was just released by the Cost of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and "looks at the past four decades of US military involvement in Somalia," the op-ed reports. Besteman is an expert on Somali and has written extensively about it, including her 2016 book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine.

A report by Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was referenced in the op-ed "When is America going to end its shadow war in Somalia?" in the Sept. 5 Guardian. The report, titled "The Costs of War in Somalia," was just released by the Cost of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and "looks at the past four decades of US military involvement in Somalia," the op-ed reports. Besteman is an expert on Somali and has written extensively about it, including her 2016 book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine.

Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, wrote the article "To Cure Ebola Will Take More Than a Pill" that appeared in Foreign Affairs Sept. 4. While experimental drugs are helping the country with its latest Ebola outbreak, "eradicating Ebola in Congo will require building public trust among Congolese and working with community organizations in order to reach vulnerable populations and overcome governance issues" Seay wrote.

Colby was ranked number seven in Sierra Magazine's Cool School list, released Sept. 3. The schools in this list display "a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate change, and encouraging environmental responsibility through their curriculum and on-campus operations," according to the magazine. In 2013 Colby became the fourth college or university to achieve carbon neutrality,

Colby was ranked number seven in Sierra Magazine's Cool School list, released Sept. 3. The schools in this list display "a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate change, and encouraging environmental responsibility through their curriculum and on-campus operations," according to the magazine. In 2013 Colby became the fourth college or university to achieve carbon neutrality,

A poem by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, was selected for the Portland Press Herald's series Deep Water: Maine Poems. "Screaming Woman," White's poem, "offers a troubling and refracted portrait of a woman’s very public disassembling. Rather than hold that portrait at an arm’s length, the poem implicates us all in it," the series' curator Gibson Fay-LeBlanc said.

An essay by Jim Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, titled “Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth” is a finalist for the 100 Year Starship Canopus Award for Excellence in the “original non-fiction” category. The Canopus Awards are administered by the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A version of this essay will be published in Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Garry Mitchell, associate professor of art, has new work showing at the ICON Contemporary Art Gallery in Brunswick, Maine. His exhibition is called Lost and Found and is on view through Sept. 14, 2019.

Loren McClenachan was quoted in the National Geographic article titled "The silent decline of the platypus, Australia’s beloved oddity." The decline was noted in a study that made use of historical data, which is McClenachan's specialty. "For species like platypus, whose population declines happened before ecologists started studying them, these types of historical observations are extremely valuable,” said McCleanchan, Colby's Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.

Loren McClenachan was quoted in the National Geographic article titled "The silent decline of the platypus, Australia’s beloved oddity." The decline was noted in a study that made use of historical data, which is McClenachan's specialty. "For species like platypus, whose population declines happened before ecologists started studying them, these types of historical observations are extremely valuable,” said McCleanchan, Colby's Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.