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Professor of English and Creative Writing Adrian Blevins won a 2024 Maine Literary Award in the poetry category for Status Pending (Four Way Books, 2023), her fourth and most recent collection of poems. The literary awards is an annual competition sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Blevins's other awards and honors include the Wilder Prize from Two Sylvias Press, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, associate professor of English, was interviewed at the top of the hour in NPR’s All Things Considered on his research and development of the Climate Reality Check, which involved Colby students.
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury was featured in the Portland Press Herald before its final weekend at the Colby Museum. The article noted it’s a “spectacular retrospective” and you should “make a beeline” to it before it closes.
Nicholas F. Jacobs, assistant professor of government, was interviewed for an article in the Portland Press Herald on Trump's felony convictions and if it will affect the vote in Maine.
The Colby Museum's upcoming exhibition Martha Diamond: Deep Time was included in a recent list of top museum shows to see this summer, noting that with this exhibition the artist is "finally receiving her due."
Stacy-ann Robinson, associate professor of environmental studies, was quoted in Foreign Policy on global climate finance and justice efforts.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson coauthored a paper in the Maine Policy Review titled "Roles for Maine’s Physicians in the Climate Crisis." Carlson and Megan Anderson surveyed 108 Maine physicians about climate change and health, reporting that "78 percent believe that climate change poses a threat to the health of their patients, particularly for asthma, vector-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and mental health problems."
Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village, was featured in Maine Home + Design's June 2024 issue.
Beth Finch, Colby Museum's Head Curator, was interviewed in the GBH podcast 'The Culture Show'
about the exhibit The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury (interview starts at the 22-minute mark).
Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor on policing movements nationwide.