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Christopher Soto, associate professor of psychology, has published a paper in the journal Psychological Science addressing the replicability crisis in psychology. His paper, "How Replicable Are Links Between Personality Traits and Consequential Life Outcomes? The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication Project," presents the findings of his project, which “provide grounds for cautious optimism about the personality–outcome literature,” Soto said in a press release from the Association for Psychological Science.
New of this paper was also picked up these publications:
Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, conducted a Q&A for Books and Ideas, a project of the Collège de France. Yasmine Bouagga interviewed Besteman about her book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine. Among the questions asked were "How can social service practices be reconciled with the customs and habits of those receiving aid?" and "... you also show that the relationship between refugee families and school staff can be difficult: there are misunderstandings, failures and frustrations. What kind of initiatives on the part of schools or refugees could help address these issues?"
Assistant of Professor of Economics Yang Fan was an "expert" in a WalletHub piece on Mastercard credit cards. Fan provided answers to four questions, including "Should every person have at least one Mastercard credit card?" to which he responded, "Yes, it limits the risk that the vendor you are purchasing from does not accept your credit card. Also, since many banks now partner primarily with either Visa (Chase) or Mastercard (Citi), diversifying and having both Visa and Mastercard limits the risk that if your Visa-issuing bank deems you high risk, you lose access to credit."
Fernando Gouvêa, Colby's Carter Professor of Mathematics, recently reviewed two books for the Mathematical Association of America. Linear Algebra I, a textbook for both undergraduates in need of advanced material with full proofs and graduate students "in need of a deeper and more complete introduction to linear algebra." Gouvêa concludes that "a course based on this book would make a very nice capstone course for students interested in applied mathematics, particularly if some links to applications were provided.
The other review is for Notes on Jacquet-Langlands' Theory, which "is the record of the lectures Godement gave at the Institute for Advanced Study to help people understand and read the book" Automorphic Forms on (2), by Hervé Jacquet and Robert P. Langlands.
"The historical development of complex global trafficking networks for marine wildlife" is the title of the latest published paper by Loren McClenachan, the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. The article, which McClenachan coauthored, appeared in the journal Science Advances and chronicles how the team "curated 150 years of tortoiseshell transactions and derived biologically informed harvest models to estimate the trade in critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles" to understand the linkage between trade networks and the "challenge to controlling wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing," according to the paper's abstract.
McClenachan's research partners at the Monterey Bay Aquarium wrote a blog post about their research and the paper.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch organized and chaired the session “Beyond the Mirror: Specularity and Its Uses” at the 107th College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, Feb. 15. The session was sponsored by the International Association of Word and Image Studies, and Plesch also presented a response to the four papers in the panel.
Katherine Hollander, faculty fellow in the History Department, has been awarded the Anthony Hecht Prize from Waywiser Press. Hollander won the prize for her collection of poems My German Dictionary, forthcoming this fall from Waywiser Press. The book grows "directly out of my experiences as a historian of Central Europe and is, I think, a reflection of my integrated identity as both a historian and poet," Hollander said. She will read from the book along with the contest's judge, Charles Wright, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., this fall.
Carrie LeVan, the Montgoris Family Assistant Professor of Government, wrote an op-ed titled "What Mainers really think of ranked-choice voting" in the March 12 Bangor Daily News in which she discusses the complexity of whether Mainers support the expansion of ranked-choice voting. "Because ranked-choice voting has become a partisan issue, simply asking Maine’s voters whether they want to expand it seems to be missing the point," LeVan wrote. "Instead, we should be asking Mainers what their preferences are toward the rule that ranked-choice voting implements, as in the 'majority-rule.'”
The Colby College Museum of Art is profiled in a March 12 New York Times piece titled "Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses." The profile mentions a new exhibit by Theaster Gates, Colby's distinguished artist and director of artist initiatives. "While not typically top of mind as a go-to destination, college and university art museums have a common goal: to raise the bar for the academic and cultural life of a campus and its environs," the Times reported.
Loren McClenachan, the Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, has published an article in Ambio, a peer-reviewed scientific journal of the human environment. "Views from the dock: Warming waters, adaptation, and the future of Maine’s lobster fishery" discusses how Maine fishermen perceive and prepare for climate-related threats. "Those with adaptation plans demonstrated fundamentally different views of human agency in this system, observing greater anthropogenic threats, but also a greater ability to control the fishery through their own actions on the water and fisheries management processes," she wrote.
Data collection for this paper was done with Colby students over the past four years as part of the Environmental Studies Domestic Policy capstone. Students listed in the paper's acknowledgements are Ryan Clemens '17, Katie Chicojay '16, Clea Harrelson '16, Robin Lewis, Sara LoTemplio '16, Ella McDonald '19, Juila Nelson '19, Barlow Peelle '18, Tucker Plante '18, Joshua Reed '17, Kaya Williams '18, Emma Wood '16, and Olivia Wright '19.