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Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was awarded a $143,000 Sustaining Public Engagement Grant from the ACLS, American Council of Learned Societies. The grant is part of a $3.5-million responsive-funding program made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative. Besteman will use the grant for her Freedom & Captivity Curriculum Project, which will "create curricula based on the materials generated through the Fall 2021 collaborative, statewide public humanities Freedom & Captivity initiative, which explored how to imagine an abolitionist future in Maine," according to the ACLS website.
Charles A. Dana Professor of Education Adam Howard and three of his former students have coauthored a chapter in a book recently released. Their chapter, "Transforming Privilege: The Four R's of Pedagogical Possibilities," appears in the book Paulo Freire and Multilingual Education. Howard's coauthors are Patrick Dickert '18, Wallace Tucker '21, and Sam Jefferson '20.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has been invited to be a panelist at the University of Pennsylvania's 2022 Global Shifts Colloquium on "Islands on the Climate Front Line: Risk and Resilience." The colloquium, held April 20-21, 2022, will explore how islands can address historical, structural, and climate-driven vulnerabilities and what policies can be wrought from their example. Robinson will speak on the intersections of colonialism and climate change.
CNN turned to Colby’s William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government Ken Rodman for a story on Ukraine having to negotiate with a world leader who could be a war criminal. “You want to hold people accountable and end the culture of impunity,” but ending conflicts can also require “negotiating with people with bloody hands,” he said in the story.
In a piece titled "The ski wax industry is working to leave PFAS behind," NPR's Marketplace interviewed Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson about her work identifying fluorochemicals, also called PFAS and used in ski wax. "What we found was that the snow at the start line was extraordinarily contaminated," she said. Carlson also advocated for a ban on fluorochemicals in ski wax, which in part led to Maine passing a law "directing industries to move away from all kinds of unnecessary PFAS uses by 2030, including ski wax," Marketplace reported. The study was also featured in the Portland Press Herald.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson's 2020 article on research on climate change adaptation in small island developing states is a top-cited article in WIREs Climate Change for 2020-21. The article explored the shifts in the academic literature before and after the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was released in 2013-14. The article specifically identified shifts in (a) when, where, and by what means knowledge was being produced (e.g., subject areas, methodologies), and the ways in which adaptation was being framed (i.e., conceptually, operationally), (b) the narratives, consensuses, and tensions across the key emerging themes in the literature, and (c) the knowledge gaps that exist. WIREs Climate Change is currently ranked ninth of the 124 ranked environmental studies journals.
Maine Public interviewed Professor of Economics Michael Donihue about his economic analysis of Maine's new recreational marijuana industry during its first year of legal operations. In the story, Donihue said he was surprised by the rate of sales growth, which increased an average of 20 percent every month, and that the industry supported some 900 direct and indirect jobs.
Media took notice of the Colby Museum of Art’s acquisition of a work by American artist Faith Ringgold. Stories in The Art Newspaper and Hyperallergic highlighted the news and included commentary from the museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director Jacqueline Terrassa, who noted that it was a “rare opportunity to acquire a story quilt by one of the most important, influential, and courageous artists of our time.” The news was also shared by Art Daily, Art News, and Culture Type.
The Portland Press Herald shared updates on the construction of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center. What the Herald calls the “cornerstone of downtown Waterville’s rebirth” is expected to open in early December, with art galleries, cinema, teaching space, and a café.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson will be the Colby commencement speaker for 2022, reported the Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald. Commencement will take place on May 22, and other featured speakers will include artist Jamie Wyeth and Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.