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Media outlets wrote about how Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Tizoc Chavez has been having discussions with his students on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Students are engaged,” said Chavez, but “the biggest challenge is students not having a frame of reference.” The story was also included in an article by Higher Ed Dive about colleges reacting to the conflict.
Amanda Stent, the inaugural director of Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was included in a list published by Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed highlighting 25 outstanding women leaders in higher education. The piece referenced Stent’s extensive experience and background, including her role as NLP architect in the Chief Technology Office at Bloomberg.
The beautiful painting Étude by Elizabeth Nourse in the Colby College Museum of Art was included in a list of 100 “Great Works, In Focus” curated by the Washington Post. The work, part of the Lunder Collection, is number 41 in the list, and a summary of the piece notes that it “hangs in the wonderful Colby College Museum of Art.”
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has coauthored a paper titled "A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans." Published in the journal Regional Environmental Change, the paper finds that countries are mostly successful in identifying climate and climate-related vulnerabilities and linking associated risks to other national development priorities such as poverty reduction. It also finds that countries struggle with establishing and maintaining systems to review and improve adaptation interventions, which is not entirely unique to them or their circumstances.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Tizoc Chavez spoke with Maine Calling host Jennifer Rooks during a segment on NPR affiliate Maine Public. The segment focused on the geopolitical impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how other nations are responding.
WVFX Fox-22 shared that Colby men’s hockey, a nationally ranked sport, will be the host of the NESCAC playoffs on March 5. “So happy for the guys. They’ve been playing so very well. We finished the season as regular-season champs in the NESCAC–very hard to do. [We] haven’t done that in 14 years,” said men’s hockey Head Coach Blaise MacDonald.
The Morning Sentinel shared the news of four 10,000-square-foot modular residence halls, which will be built to the east of Johnson Pond on Colby’s campus. The buildings will be able to house 200 students and will include apartments for faculty members.
Makaylah Cowan '22 (environmental computation major) and Julia Cantor '23 (biology major) will join Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates and collaborators to present the results of their research, "Clean, Green, and Just? Community Perspectives on the Renewable Energy Transition in a New England City," at the Society for Applied Anthropology's annual conference in March 22-26, 2022. Their research shares the results of a study conducted in collaboration with organizations in the environmental justice community of Holyoke, Mass., (Nueva Esperanza and Neighbor to Neighbor Holyoke) and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The study centers the perspectives of community members on issues of energy access and use and on how the transition to a low-carbon renewable energy system could affect their community. Cowan and Cantor joined Bates and the research team to facilitate qualitative and ethnographic data collection in-person with low- and middle-income residents of Holyoke during summer 2021. Both students contributed substantively to the data collection and analysis as coauthors.
The highly interdisciplinary team has also been invited to share their work in Europe during 2022. This work was funded in part by Colby College Interdisciplinary Studies Division, the Colby College Department of Environmental Studies, and the Colby College Provost’s Office Summer Research Assistant program; and also through the UMass Amherst Institute for Diversity Sciences, and the UMass Amherst ELEVATE program (NSF GCR #202888).
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson was quoted in the Atmos article "IPCC Report: The Climate Crisis Requires Solutions That Do It All." Robinson spoke to the global nature of the climate problem, but she emphasized the unequal impacts, especially for small island developing states. Atmos is a nonprofit biannual magazine and digital platform curated by a global ecosystem of artists, activists, and writers devoted to ecological and social justice, creative storytelling, and re-enchantment with the natural world. The article can be accessed here.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson, whose research focuses on climate change adaptation in small island developing states and on climate justice, was cited across nine chapters and one cross-chapter paper in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report that was released Feb. 28. 2022. The report covers climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Of special note is that an article Robinson coauthored with Caroline Wren '20 on human system adaptation in the Caribbean was cited in Chapter 8 (Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development) and Chapter 17 (Decision-making options for managing risk). And another article Robinson coauthored with D'Arcy Carlson '21 on climate compatible development in practice was cited in Chapter 18 (Climate-resilient development pathways). The full report may be downloaded here.