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Ahead of Election Day, Professor of Government, Dan Shea, was a panelist on a recent episode of ‘Maine Calling’ to answer Q&A’s from the community about the upcoming election.

Central Maine News covered a Q&A with Gov. Janet Mills, President David Greene, and Colby students, for the Goldfarb Center’s ‘In The News’ series.

Professor of Mathematics Scott Taylor coauthored an article published in the Mathematical Association of America's news magazine Focus. His paper, "Math + The Arts is More than the Sum of its Parts," details Sum Camp, which Taylor organizes each summer in Waterville. "Sum Camp is our collaborative attempt to impact our local community by infusing music, art, theatre, and playground games with mathematics in a way that reinforces K–5 state mathematics standards. We take a nontraditional approach to traditional mathematics," he writes in the article.

The Colby Museum's Alive & Kicking exhibition, currently on view in the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art in downtown Waterville, received a wonderful critique by the Boston Art Review. The piece also noted how Colby is "endeavoring to make Waterville the cultural center of Maine," and that its "visual art program downtown is an access point" for visitors.

Colby’s Center for Small Town Jewish Life collaborated with community partners to build a sukkah in Downtown Waterville for the Sukkot holiday. Read more in the Morning Sentinel.

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch published her paper "On the Patrimonialization of Graffiti.” In Medieval Cultural Heritage, Then and Now (Mediaevalia 45 [2024]: 205–29). In her abstract, Plesch writes that, "'Graffiti' is not a word one immediately associates with the concept of 'heritage.' In fact, the two are more often than not thought as antinomic and yet, as this paper argues, we are at a crucial moment of what can be termed the 'patrimonialization' of graffiti. Retracing the steps involved in this process of patrimonialization, starting with Raffaelle Garrucci’s study of Pompeian graffiti in the first half of the nineteenth century, this paper surveys the steps that have paved the way for a recognition of graffiti’s significance and the need for preservation. Recent initiatives demonstrate a new awareness, expressed in many ways through the work of individual scholars and heritage agencies. This paper interrogates the mutations that have led to such a renewed conception of graffiti as worthy of scholarly study, preservation, and display, while considering the implications and gains that such a patrimonialization holds." One of the issue's editors called Plesch's article "a mainstay of the issue."

A Bangor Daily News story about boosting voter participation highlighted the student-led Colby Votes initiative, which was responsible for registering young voters across campus.

In its story on the Nebraska senate race, Roll Call highlighted comments from Associate Professor of Government, Nicholas Jacobs.

An international art and culture publication published a feature story on the Colby Museum of Art’s latest exhibit ‘Into the wind: American weathervanes' ahead of its opening.

Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, has won a $187,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project "The Praxis of Care: Carceral Disruptions and Community Resistance." The grant will cover her research and writing leading to a coauthored book that examines the experience of incarceration and caring for inmates in Maine and Massachusetts. This peer-reviewed grant, through relatively small, enables Besteman to continue her work in an important ongoing area of research. It was among $37.5 million in grants for 240 humanities projects across the country.