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A feature story by the Associated Press on the Climate Reality Check, co-developed by Colby’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment, was picked up by a wide range of media outlets, including ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, and the South China Morning Post to name a few.
Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs, and Professor of Government Dan Shea, talked about what coverage of rural voters is not getting right on the popular podcast The Odd Years, produced by the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter.
The Portland Press Herald and Maine Public reported on a recent study by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson, which involved interviews with Maine physicians about the links between climate change and public health, including the spread of tick-borne diseases that no longer die off in the winter.
The Morning Sentinel covered Colby’s 203rd Commencement ceremony, where 536 new graduates received degrees.
Local CBS affiliate, WABI-TV, featured the ribbon cutting of Oliver & Friends bookshop located in Colby's mixed-use building, the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons on Main Street in Waterville.
Tanya Sheehan, the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, and Professor Suzanne Hudson (University of Southern California) coedited a new transnational history of modernist art that connects discourses on art as therapy to questions of gender, disability, race, and the politics of care. Modernism, Art, Therapy (Yale University Press) is a born-digital collection of 16 original essays that explores relationships between clinically derived art therapies and the modernisms that developed transnationally in visual arts across the 20th century. Through sites of practice such as hospitals, clinics, and prisons—but also schools, art museums, and galleries—the book puts art history into conversation with critical medical and health humanities, disability studies, critical race studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Committed to exploring questions of agency and social justice, contributors to the book attend to traditionally marginalized subjects and makers, from children and the incarcerated to women artists, therapists, and care workers. The volume thus aims not only to expand the category of masterworks that art historians deem meaningful but also to expose the limitations of dominant narratives about modernism. Modernism, Art, Therapy was supported in part by the Margaret T. McFadden Fund for Humanistic Inquiry at Colby College.
The Portland Press Herald featured Colby’s graduation weekend speakers, Gov. Janet Mills and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin '64, and its honorary degree recipients ahead of the 203rd Commencement.
Diverse Education covered the naming of four new residence halls, opened in the 2022-23 academic year by Johnson Pond. These halls were named in April to honor Paula Crane Lunder, D.F.A. ’98, Jane Powers ’86, Jacqueline Núñez ’61, and Carol Swann-Daniels ’69.
On May 15 Professor of Art Véronique Plesch gave a lecture at the Baxter Society in Portland. She spoke on “The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s A Humument,” discussing the project that British artist Tom Phillips (1937–2022) carried for fifty years, altering W.H. Mallock’s Victorian novel. Founded in 1983, the Baxter Society is the Bibliophilic Fellowship of Northern New England, whose objectives are to advance the quality and diversity of private and public libraries; promote excellence in the arts pertaining to the history, design, and production of books; and provide a supportive environment for those interested in the creation, preservation, and collection of books.
The Boston Globe featured the Colby Museum's current exhibit ‘The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury’ in its round-up of current things to do around Boston.