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Continuing conclusions from an NSF grant have resulted in the acceptance of three new publications from the collaboration of Robert A. Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, Emeritus, and Research Scientist Ian Glasspool. Two publications were accepted in the high-profile journal Geology from studies done in the Maritimes of New Brunswick and Baxter State Park, Maine, with a companion paper in Palaios on the deep-time wildfire record in northern Maine. The two Geology papers are open access and titled "To rush into the secret house of death; the fate of a Tournaisian plant," with coauthors from the University of North Carolina, New Brunswick Museum, and New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources; and "Don't mind the ‘Charcoal Gap’: a reassessment of Devonian wildfire." The manuscript focused on new charcoal records in northern Maine is titled "Through fire, and through water, an abundance of Mid-Devonian charcoal" and the reconstruction of the Trout Valley Formation's Middle Devonian estuary ecosystem is featured on the journal cover.
Colby's Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross provided commentary for a story by the Wall Street Journal about how and why universities in the South are attracting more students from the North. In the piece, he noted that some students are "opting into an atmosphere where they can focus on things other than politics.”
Associate Professor of Geology Bess Koffman coauthored a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the top journal for publishing Earth sciences research. Titled "Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid," the paper discusses the findings from a study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland, led by Dartmouth University, that "found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric chemistry," according to a press release.
Online luxury magazine Lux Exposé included the Colby Museum of Art and the Lockwood Hotel in a story about the best hotels for art tourism, and referenced the area as a "revitalizing arts hub."
Maine Public’s “State of the Art” program gave audiences a sneak peek into Associate Professor of English Arisa White’s Post Pardon: The Opera ahead of the highly anticipated Oct. 5 concert at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts. The concert will offer a first glimpse of the opera’s core characters and musical selections.
The Chronicle of Higher Education covered the appointment of Randi Maloney to Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Amanda Gallinat was included in a story by USA Today about this year’s fall foliage season. In the article, she noted that “the timing of fall foliage is generally getting later in response to the warming temperatures associated with climate change."
Forbes featured Colby’s Dare Northward Campaign in an article about “tapping the power of college alumni.”
Colby’s announcement on the arrival of its new athletic director, Amanda V. DeMartino, received a lot of buzz in the local media in Maine and New Jersey, including Central Maine News, Bangor Daily News, and The Trentonian.
Associate Professor of Art Bradley Borthwick has an exhibition of sculptures and prints on display in Puyloubier, France titled une œuvre...un monument...ou plutôt, me voilà au travail. On view Sept. 14-Oct. 11, 2024, this exhibition presents a sequence of marble sculptures and a series of photographic prints that collectively reflect upon a one-year relocation to the south of France. In the spirit of the flaneur, an exploration of the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Var, and the Luberon has informed a body of work that brings landscape topographies, material indexes, and cultural ritual into sculptural and print format. A sense of obscurity experienced when living slightly outside the language and customs of a place finds its relevance within the creative process, forming choices made within both stone carving and the photographic record.