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Waterville's resurgence was the focus of an article in Mainebiz, which highlighted how significant "investment has created a new energy" in the city and how “Colby has had a huge part in that, whether it is their general investment or the kind of traffic that the art center draws or the hotel draws."
Photographer and Professor of Art Gary Green will have his fourth photobook officially released at Paris Photo in November. Including over a dozen year's worth of work made in Central Maine, Almost Home describes the resilience of the natural world as it battles constant changes in the built environment. It is also a metaphoric telling of our own limited time on earth. Printed in tritone in Bologna, Italy, it is his third photobook with L'Artiere Editions. Green has also been invited to exhibit his work from After Morandi—a visual dialogue with the modernist painter Giorgio Morandi—at Casa Morandi, now a small museum in Italy, where the painter lived and worked. The exhibit will happen in October 2025 during Bologna's Foto Industria Festival.
In a comprehensive article on having more diverse views in higher education, the New York Times spoke with Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology. The story referenced his book about the evolution of academic liberalism and his recent survey on student views and experiences related to politics and last spring's campus protests.
The local media, including Maine Public and Central Maine News, covered Colby’s 2024 Lovejoy recipient, Miami Herald’s Jacqueline Charles, a well-deserved honor.
Author and political correspondent, Matt Barron, did a fantastic review of 'The Rural Voter' by Government faculty Nick Jacobs and Dan Shea, in Barn Raiser, an independent source for rural and small-town news.
Debra Spark, the Zacamy Professor of English (Creative Writing), had her article titled "Look Out!" published in American Scholar, a publication of Phi Beta Kappa. Subtitled "Why did it take so long to protect spectators of America’s favorite pastime?" Spark chronicles the fiction writer Susan Perabo's relationship with baseball.
Bangor Daily News relied on the expertise of Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Gail Carlson, for its article on health professionals raising the alarm about contaminants discovered in menstrual products, including toxic metals and forever chemicals.
Associate Professor of English Aaron Hanlon was recently named a Faculty Champion and Fellow by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont to promote journalism partnerships between students and community news organizations. The program is a national initiative to support the people running local news reporting programs at U.S. colleges and universities across the country. Hanlon plans to build journalism development and recruitment components into his first-year writing course, identify professional journalists to help mentor students, and establish journalism pathways for interested students.
Professor of Government Dan Shea was featured in two articles by the Portland Press Herald about Maine's role in the 2024 presidential election, and the possibility of Harris or Trump visiting the state on the final leg of the campaign trail.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education highlighted a new survey conducted by Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, on student perspectives about campus protests.