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The Salem News interviewed Brady O’Brien ’24, a member of Colby’s baseball team, about his experience this summer playing in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
The Boston Globe published a review of the Colby Museum of Art’s Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death exhibition, noting that it is “as powerful as it is unexpected in the Wyeth oeuvre — loose, chaotic, abrupt.”
The Bangor Daily News covered news about how the VEMI lab, which involves various Maine collaborators including Stacy Doore, assistant professor of computer science, and Matthew Maring ’22, earned third place in a national competition and an invitation to the White House for developing an inclusive smartphone software platform.
An article published by the Portland Press Herald about worker training programs at community colleges included commentary from Adam Howard, professor of education, who pointed out that “these programs are offering upward economic mobility, but only to a certain extent.”
Maine Public did a segment about the new images from the Webb telescope and invited Elizabeth McGrath, the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics, and Dalibor Kocevski, associate professor of physics and astronomy, to talk about how the findings are impacting their research.
Obelisks, the latest book by Professor of Art Gary Green and Associate Professor of Italian Gianluca Rizzo, was reviewed in PhotoBook Journal. "In a very real sense Obelisks is indeed a guidebook. But Green and his collaborator, poet Gianluca Rizzo, perform a deft shift in this book by foregrounding not only questions of space, but questions of time as well," reviewer Steve Harps writes of the 4 ½” x 9” softcover book that feels like a guidebook in his hand.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Ayomikun "Ayo" Adeniran has won an AMS-Simons Travel Grant from the American Mathematical Society. The competitive grant supports an early-career mathematician with $2,500 per year for two years to be used for research-related travel. Adeniran joined Colby in 2021 and researches graph theory and combinatorics, a field of mathematics concerned with problems of selection, arrangement, and operation within a finite or discrete system.
WABI-TV covered the event honoring the former Levine’s clothing store with the unveiling of a plaque that names Levine’s Park in Waterville. WABI reported that Levine’s was “known internationally” and has “a strong connection to Colby College and the students who came from all over the world.”
A new book, Obelisks, by Professor of Art Gary Green and Associate Professor of Italian Gianluca Rizzo has been released by Danilo Montanari Editore. With poems by Rizzo and photography by Green, the book explores what makes obelisks so irresistible to builders of empires. "Green’s photographs explore the relationship between Rome, its Egyptian obelisks, and the people who move through the city’s piazzas and side streets as part of an ever-changing landscape representing thousands of years of history," while "Rizzo’s poems contemplate the forms this ancient symbol has taken across the United States."
Assistant Professor of Government Carrie LeVan and scholars from the University of Maine have won a research grant from the Maine Chapter of the Scholar Strategy Network to study election protection. Specifically, they're looking at how to mobilize more poll workers and volunteers who help run Maine’s elections. LeVan and her colleagues political scientist Rob Glover and psychologist Jordan LaBouff are preparing the study this summer with plans to implement it this fall.