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Travel site The Points Guy included the Lockwood Hotel in a recent story of the best dog-friendly hotels in the U.S. The piece referenced Waterville as a charming New England town that’s an “ideal jumping-off point for adventures through Maine’s wilderness with your dog in tow.”
The Colby Museum’s wonderful new show, Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms, was highlighted in Art Daily. The exhibition is the second show in the museum’s new Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.
Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman provided commentary in this article on the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, a hub for climate research. "Ice cores are one of the best archives that the Earth provides, like a gigantic Library of Congress filled with important information,” said Koffman. "By studying these archives, we see that the rate of change that humans are enacting on the environment is faster than anything that we see in the geological record.”
Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs and Lukas Alexander '22 coauthored an article recently published in the journal Congress & the Presidency. Titled "Presidential Partisanship and Legislative Cooperation in the U.S. Senate, 1993–2021," the article unveils a historical change in the way legislation works its way through the U.S. Senate. The research shows how Senators have increasingly based their votes on presidential partisanship, particularly when they are members of the opposition party. Consequently, one reason that legislative gridlock has become so common is because presidents now occupy a central role in dictating party affairs, mobilizing the party base, and setting the legislative agenda.
The Maine Governor's Energy Office recently named Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates as an advisory board member for the Maine Offshore Wind Research Consortium. The board's role is to establish a research strategy to identify opportunities and challenges caused by the deployment of floating offshore wind projects to the existing uses of the Gulf of Maine; methods to avoid and minimize the impact of floating offshore wind projects on ecosystems and existing uses of the Gulf of Maine; and ways to realize cost efficiencies in the commercialization of floating offshore wind projects. The board began its work in February 2023.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates has published an article titled "Hydrodynamic effects of biofouling-induced surface roughness – Review and research gaps for shallow water offshore wind energy structures” in which Bates and her colleagues review technical, environmental, and social conditions caused by the “artificial reef” effect of offshore wind turbines. This project is part of a larger undertaking to understand the nuanced implications of wind turbines in the marine environment. This study was supported by the Sea and Littoral Research Institute; Nantes Université, in partnership with the Ocean Resources and Renewable Energy Lab; Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and Department of Environmental Studies; and the Region de la Loire under the WEAMEC community and European Community under the FEDER program.
Maine’s ABC affiliate did a story on Colby partnering with the organization Be the Match as part of its initiative to add stem cell and bone marrow donors to a national registry. Hundreds of students took part, including a team of student athletes who were focused on beating last year's participation record.
Colby’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross was a featured guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program Think, where he discussed changing police culture from the inside of departments.
On Feb. 16, 2023, Professor of Art Véronique Plesch gave a paper at the 111th College Art Association Annual Conference in New York City. Her paper, “Tattooing and/in Art History,” was based on the seminar she regularly teaches at Colby (The Visual Culture of Tattooing) and reflects upon what her students gain from this course, how teaching it has impacted her own scholarship, and, more generally, what the study of tattooing brings to the discipline of art history and its practice.
Colby’s director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Amanda Stent, and Assistant Professor of Writing Stacey Sheriff were part of a segment on how ChatGPT will impact higher ed and writing. Highlights can be found at time marks 1:58, 3:00, and 3:37, where Sheriff was able to identify what was generated by AI and what wasn’t.