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Gary Green, associate professor of art, had his work chosen for JRNL NO. 2, published by Fotofilmic, a gallery and publisher in Vancouver. Green's work was juried by U.K. photo book publishers Stanley/Barker and will be included in Fotofilmic's next photography publication, which will include 11 other artists from all over the world.

Gary Green, associate professor of art, had his work chosen for JRNL NO. 2, published by Fotofilmic, a gallery and publisher in Vancouver. Green's work was juried by U.K. photo book publishers Stanley/Barker and will be included in Fotofilmic's next photography publication, which will include 11 other artists from all over the world.

Colby has been ranked the number one overall top performer among baccalaureate institutions in the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) 2019 Sustainable Campus Index. The College was also ranked number one in the "air and climate" category and ranked in the top 10 in the "campus engagement," "public engagement," and "well-being and work." According to the report, "the 2019 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI) recognizes top-performing colleges and universities overall by institution type and in 17 sustainability impact areas, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), a voluntary framework used by hundreds of colleges and universities to measure, report, and strengthen their contributions to global sustainability." Colby has received a gold STARS rating. Click here for more information about Colby's sustainability efforts.

Fish and Fisheries published the paper "Shifting perceptions of rapid temperature changes’ effects on marine fisheries, 1945–2017" with Loren McClenachan, the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, as lead author. Coauthors include Ben Neal, adjunct assistant professor of environmental studies, Seabird McKeon, former visiting assistant professor of biology, and Madison Marra '17. The paper "documents the effects of rapidly changing water temperatures along the United States’ east coast using observations from fisheries newspapers during a warming phase (1945–1951) and subsequent cooling phase (1952–1960) of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, which we compared to similar recent observations of warming waters (1998–2017)," according to the paper's abstract.

Jim Condron '92, a sculptor and artist from Baltimore, has a new exhibition at Wilson College library's Sue Davison Cooley Gallery opening Sept. 4. Titled You Never Wash it Off Completely, the exhibit uses relics and artifacts from the college that Condron collected with the help of "Wilson archivists, professors, and students to construct compelling art installations from historic artifacts," according to a press release from the college. “A typical archives exhibit has a literal feeling with traditional objects arranged with descriptive labels, but in this art installation, Condron magnificently captures both the feeling of belongingness, as well as the fleeting nature of each individual’s experience," said Amy Ensley, director of Wilson's Hankey Center for the History of Women’s Education. "This is about shared memories across time and the celebration of a community that endures.” The exhibition was reviewed by ArtDaily.com, which said, "Each work of art is titled with a textual fragment from literature that intends to add to the piece’s rhetoric rather than naming or defining it. Titles are applied to the works the same way Condron assembles materials and are appropriated from literature by an array of great authors such as Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Don DeLillo, and others."

Jim Condron '92, a sculptor and artist from Baltimore, has a new exhibition at Wilson College library's Sue Davison Cooley Gallery opening Sept. 4. Titled You Never Wash it Off Completely, the exhibit uses relics and artifacts from the college that Condron collected with the help of "Wilson archivists, professors, and students to construct compelling art installations from historic artifacts," according to a press release from the college. “A typical archives exhibit has a literal feeling with traditional objects arranged with descriptive labels, but in this art installation, Condron magnificently captures both the feeling of belongingness, as well as the fleeting nature of each individual’s experience," said Amy Ensley, director of Wilson's Hankey Center for the History of Women’s Education. "This is about shared memories across time and the celebration of a community that endures.” The exhibition was reviewed by ArtDaily.com, which said, "Each work of art is titled with a textual fragment from literature that intends to add to the piece’s rhetoric rather than naming or defining it. Titles are applied to the works the same way Condron assembles materials and are appropriated from literature by an array of great authors such as Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Don DeLillo, and others."

The French newspaper Le Monde interviewed Raffael Scheck, Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris. The interview, conducted in French, asked Scheck the question: why were there no black soldiers in the Free French division that liberated Paris? Scheck answered "that this division, which had become an armored division, was 'whitened' at the behest of the United States because American generals did not think that black French soldiers (who had been very prominent in the Free French armies in the beginning) could drive tanks. Moreover, the British authorities did not want any more black soldiers on their territory because they argued that there had been many incidents with black GIs," Scheck reported via email. Watch the interview here.

The French newspaper Le Monde interviewed Raffael Scheck, Katz Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Paris. The interview, conducted in French, asked Scheck the question: why were there no black soldiers in the Free French division that liberated Paris? Scheck answered "that this division, which had become an armored division, was 'whitened' at the behest of the United States because American generals did not think that black French soldiers (who had been very prominent in the Free French armies in the beginning) could drive tanks. Moreover, the British authorities did not want any more black soldiers on their territory because they argued that there had been many incidents with black GIs," Scheck reported via email. Watch the interview here.

L. Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, gave comments on the FOX news story titled "Trump says Jewish Americans who vote Democrat show 'lack of knowledge' or 'complete disloyalty'," which aired Aug. 23. Maisel's comments begin at 1:30 seconds in the two-minute Associated Press story.

L. Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, gave comments on the FOX news story titled "Trump says Jewish Americans who vote Democrat show 'lack of knowledge' or 'complete disloyalty'," which aired Aug. 23. Maisel's comments begin at 1:30 seconds in the two-minute Associated Press story.