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In a story by the Wall Street Journal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Amanda Gallinat commented on New England’s changing foliage season, noting that it has been “pushed back about a week on average since the 1950s.”

Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs provided commentary for a story in Inc. magazine about how the Supreme Court's decision on a case related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could impact small businesses. In the article, he noted that possibly "no agency … is more disliked than this one" because of its focus on regulating financial products.

Printmaker and Assistant Professor of Art Amanda Lilleston has a show titled deep field at the Zillman Art Museum at the University of Maine in Bangor. Maine-based artist Lilleston "explores biological narratives through woodcut printing and collage in her exhibition deep field. The prints highlight the concept of transformation, depicted in burgeoning colors of flora," according to the museum's website. 

For the fall issue of the Maine Arts Journal, Professor of Art Véronique Plesch wrote the introduction as well as her "Art Historical Musings" column with an essay titled "Art Matter." Plesch also did an interview with photographer Rosamond Purcell and compiled and introduced texts by art critic Lucy Lippard on the notion of "Dematerialization in Art." Colby’s participation in this issue is larger than ever: alumni Jim Condron '92 and Duncan Hewitt ’71 and Colby’s new Assistant Professor of Digital Media Takahiro Suzuki contributed essays.

Takahiro Suzuki, Colby's new assistant professor of art, digital media, had his work screened at the Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) Festival, an artist-run event at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Suzuki's eight-minute film, electric moonlight & the language within the leaves, is "a modern re-telling of the Japanese tale of the bamboo cutter and the moon princess" and was included in the festival's program titled Decomposition. He also has two upcoming screenings of the same work in October at ULTRAcinema in Mexico and Antimatter Media Art Festival in British Columbia.

Fox News did a terrific piece about Colby's Lovejoy Award as part of its national broadcast last weekend. In addition to calling attention to the plight of this year's recipient, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, it referenced how Colby bestows “the country's highest journalism award for courage.”

The Portland Press Herald showcased Ghetto Gastro’s campus takeover, as the globally known culinary collective interacted with students and shared their experience of using multiple art forms to build community and dialogue around Black culture and of growing up in the Bronx.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has published an article titled "Vulnerability-Based Allocations in Loss and Damage Finance" in the journal Nature Climate Change. Based on a review of past debates relating to the identification of priority beneficiaries of international adaptation finance, the article cautions against the adoption of quantitative vulnerability indicators as this will not fully depoliticize allocation decisions, given the power dynamics between and among contributor and beneficiary countries.

A Boston Globe story about climate change disrupting tourism included commentary by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson. In the article, Carlson said she hopes the summer’s highly publicized extreme weather “prompts action, or at least awareness, among those who never thought seriously about climate change.”

Talking Biz News, the Portland Press Herald, WGME-TV, and WABI-TV published feature stories ahead of Colby’s 71st Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism event honoring the recipient, Evan Gershkovich.