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Sarah Braunstein, associate professor of English (creative writing), just had her short story “Abject Naturalism” published in The New Yorker. You can also read a Q&A she did for the magazine; listen to her narrate the story for the publication’s podcast The Writer’s Voice, or read the piece when it comes out in the July 29th print edition.
On July 11, 2024, Professor of Art Véronique Plesch spoke at the Waterville Historical Society on “Where the Dead Reside: Burials and Cemeteries in History." Motivated by the current project of a trail through Waterville’s Pine Grove Cemetery, the illustrated talk aimed at providing historical context. Surveying millennia of funerary practices, from the ancient Egyptians through today, the lecture stopped at some salient moments in history and considered what we can learn from cemeteries. The talk is available on YouTube: first half here, second half, here.
The Guardian and Salon featured research from Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson after the new 'Twisters' movie fails to address climate change.
Modern Art Notes, a leading podcast featuring the nation's top artists, historians, authors, and curators, interviewed Sarah Humphreville, the Lunder Curator of American Art, about the Colby Museum’s Eastman Johnson and Maine exhibition, which opened recently and is on view through Dec. 8.
Colby was well represented in a recent story on how political scholars in Maine are thinking about the current presidential race. Both Dan Shea, professor of government, and Sandy Maisel, professor of government, emeritus, provided commentary including how "we’re in uncharted waters," and there's a "palpable sense of unease hanging over the election cycle."
Matthew Cumbie, visiting assistant professor of performance, theater, and dance, was invited into a cohort of creatives and changemakers through the Creative Community Fellows: New England Program of the National Arts Strategies. This cohort is an eight-month professional development program meant to support, connect, and further the work of the 20 folks in the cohort. The fellowship also comes with a grant award to support their work. Cumbie will use this opportunity to further various threads of programs and performances connected to Of This Place, an original work he created and performed at Colby in February 2024.
An article in Vox about the role of higher education institutions in the meat industry quoted Professor of History, Emeritus Paul Josephson and referenced his book Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Tamar Friedmann and Qidong He '21 had their paper "Counting conjugacy classes of elements of finite order in exceptional Lie groups" published in the journal Combinatorial Theory. The paper continues the study of two numbers associated with Lie groups, N(G,m) and N(G,m, s).
The Boston Globe profiled Colby alumna and former women’s hockey player Tracey Roberts ’89 about her work on Pixar’s Inside Out 2, including how she was the film’s unofficial hockey consultant.