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The soon-to-open Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts was a front-page story in Maine newspapers this past week. In the article, President David A. Greene highlighted the “highly flexible spaces … for all different types of arts disciplines” and a design that presents a “welcoming and creative space,” while Brian Clark, vice president of planning and strategy, noted that “there’s nothing like this in New England.”

Maine’s U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and Chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts Maria Rosario Jackson joined President David A. Greene for a tour of the downtown Paul J. Schupf Art Center and newly opened Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, the Portland Press Herald reported.

Jacqueline Terrassa, the Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art, was featured in a delightful Q&A for the recent summer edition of Maine Homes by Down East magazine.

Adam Howard, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education, has published a new article titled "Gender Justice within Elite All-Boys Schools? Possibilities of a Whole-School Approach" in Teachers College Record. In the article, Howard and his coauthor, Amanda Keddie (Deakin University, Australia), present two stories that draw attention to the disturbing ways in which masculinities are reproduced within elite all-boys schools through practices of homophobia, heterosexism, and misogyny. These stories highlight the challenges of engaging gender justice work within these spaces. They propose three areas of practice for elite all-boys schools that are imperative in working toward gender justice: 1) strong leadership for and commitment to gender justice; 2) multiple avenues for critical learning about gender justice issues; and 3) strong adult mentorship.

A major review by the Boston Globe of new exhibitions about Pueblo art led with the Colby Museum’s Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. The article notes that the show is “quietly radical,” offering “a glimpse into what the future might look like” for engaging with Native American art.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates was included in a New York Times story about clean energy. The article, which looked at impediments for converting to renewables, referenced how she is “studying ways to communicate…about offshore wind proposals.”

Colby’s President David A. Greene was featured in an important story by the Boston Globe on how leading colleges are responding to recent attacks on the liberal arts. In the article, he talked about how “a strong democracy depends on people who … will actually fight for understanding truth,” and that we need to make the liberal arts “more accessible because it is so powerful.”

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has coauthored an article titled "The role of colonial pasts in shaping climate futures: Adaptive capacity in Georgetown, Guyana." Appearing in the journal Habitat International, the article explores the colonial history of Georgetown, Guyana, in the context of its vulnerability to various climate change impacts, including flooding, and demonstrates the links between the city's colonial governance and its present-day adaptive capacity. It finds the city's adaptive capacity being influenced physically by the Dutch colonial period and socially, politically, and economically by the British colonial period. It recommends reparations to right the wrong. The article was coauthored with Allison Douma '20, Tiffany Poore '20, and Kabir Singh '20.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stacy Doore were featured in a story by Digital Journal about their community-engaged wind-energy research. In the article, Bates explains how they’re using virtual reality and “trying to give voice and provide an avenue for people who may not be able to participate in public engagement processes and decision-making.”