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Colby’s announcement that it was joining a broad network of schools to help rural high school students enroll and succeed in higher education received significant attention from regional media, including the Portland Press Herald and TV affiliates NBC and CBS.
After setting a season record for wins last year, a sports writer thinks the Mules can once again emerge as a NESCAC contender.
The spring issue of the Maine Arts Journal contains essays by Professor of Art Véronique Plesch, Professor of Art Bevin Engman, and painter and illustrator Sam Onche '22. For this issue, which addresses the theme of Truths and Lies, Plesch wrote the introduction, her "Art Historical Musings" column (“Artful Lies"), and an essay on the drawings that Josefina Auslender did during the dictatorship in Argentina.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch participated in the International Workshop on Standards and Criteria for the Photo Reproduction, Diagnostic Analysis, and Preservation of Graffiti that took place March 23-24, 2023, at the Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti e Scienze Sociali (DiLASS) of the Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio,” Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She presented a paper titled "La relazione tra testo e immagine nello studio dei graffiti" (The Relationship Between Word and Image in the Study of Graffiti). The workshop was organized in the context of the European Research Council project Graff-IT, “Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy, 7th to 16th century," a five-year project that received a grant of 2.5 million Euro. Plesch is part of Graff-IT's Team of Experts. Plesch also gave a guest lecture titled “I graffiti, oggetto del patrimoniale culturale?” (Graffiti as Cultural Heritage?) in the context of the doctoral program in Cultural Heritage Studies, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio,” Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
A story on Mark Boles ’92 highlighted his successful retail store, noting that it’s one of a handful of Black-owned businesses focused on the outdoor sector.
Tanya Sheehan, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, has been appointed a Beinecke Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery Art. CASVA fellowships are highly selective, and the program is among the most sought-after research opportunities for art historians in the U.S. At CASVA Sheehan is working on her third book, a study of African-American artists’ engagement with the subjects of medicine and public health between the 1930s and 1950s. Sheehan is also the principal investigator for Colby's initiative Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine.
A New York Times review of Walk the Walk by Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross referenced the book as “thoughtful and important,” noting that “Gross’s optimism about police reform offers an antidote to the cynicism and gloom that pervade most such discussions.”
Online luxury magazine Lux Exposé featured Waterville in a brief list of smaller destinations bustling with new attractions, noting that the city’s Main Street has evolved into “an incredible hotspot full of artistic energy.”
A story about how famed Utah ski area Park City has chosen to ban ski wax containing toxic “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, referenced important research from Colby, led by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson. KSL Broadcasting out of Salt Lake City said that Colby's research found "that the chemical contamination was greatly reduced over two years from when a ski race happened without the ban on that type of ski wax and when it was in place for the same race."
Television news anchor Chris Hayes featured Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross on his popular podcast Why Is This Happening? The interview focused on Gross’s new book about police reform, which Hayes noted was “fabulous.” The conversation starts at the time mark 4:30.