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In a story by the Boston Globe about tourism and Antarctica, Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman commented that despite various measures to mitigate damage, the increasing number of visitors to the continent is having “real, tangible impacts on the ecosystem.”
The winter issue of the Maine Arts Journal is out with several contributions by Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and connections to Colby. As usual, Plesch wrote the Introduction and her "Art Historical Musings" column with an essay titled "Playing with the Marvelous," in which she mentions the course on Surrealism that she regularly teaches. For this issue, Plesch contributed a conversation with artist Angela Lorenz, who was invited to Colby in the fall of 2022 to deliver the James M. Carpenter Lecture. The issue's theme of Play was chosen to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Surrealism and thus by a remarkable coincidence coincides with Colby's Center for the Arts and Humanities current theme. The journal invited Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities Dean Allbritton to report on Colby's theme.
The Daily Yonder published a comprehensive review of ‘The Rural Voter,’ a new book by Colby Government faculty Nicholas Jacobs and Dan Shea.
An article in Down East magazine about colleges and universities in Maine building sustainable residential halls highlighted Colby’s new Johnson Pond Houses, noting that they are “capable of generating as much energy as they consume annually.”
The Boston Globe's article on Maine barring former president Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary election included commentary from Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs, who noted that for some the decision “amounts to constitutional hardball” and is “fueling a longstanding narrative of ‘the two Maines.’”
In Maine’s leading newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, Colby's Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies David Freidenreich was featured in an article about how bagels, the once quintessential Jewish bread, are the “new holiday tradition” in Maine. “Bagels are so American at this point that many people have no idea there was a Jewish connection,” said Freidenreich.
That was a quote from Amanda Stent, director of Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, in this story about how organizations that are implementing AI will be looking for employees who have especially strong enterprise skills.
Gail Carlson, director of Colby’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and assistant professor of environmental studies, provided extensive commentary in this article about the PFAS crisis in Maine.
Assistant Professor of Education Pei Pei Liu has published a new book, Invisible Forces: Motivational Supports and Challenges in High School and College Classes (SUNY Press, 2023). The book "explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college," according to the publisher. The book presents "four rich case studies of educators' efforts to support student motivation and the challenges they encounter in secondary and postsecondary writing classrooms" that ultimately "shed light on different strategies, make a case for institutional support of instructors, and pave the way for greater alignment between secondary and postsecondary settings." Liu also discusses her approach to writing the book in a post on SUNY Press's blog.
Assistant Professor of Art Amanda Lilleston is presenting an artist talk on Wednesday, Dec. 13 to accompany her solo show currently on view at the Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine in Orono. The exhibition is titled deep field and features Lilleston's woodcut printing and collage pieces that "highlight the concept of transformation, depicted in burgeoning colors of flora."