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NBC affiliate News Center Maine spoke with Canaan Morse '07 about being named a National Book Award Finalist. In the segment, Morse had high praise for his mentor, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hong Zhang, noting that “the Chinese believe that your relationship with your teacher is one of the greatest relationships you can have; they're like another parent.”
The Portland Press Herald picked up a story on Colby’s announcement on the success of its Dare Northward campaign. The article noted that “from expanding financial aid to supporting faculty growth and enabling the building of new facilities and programs,” the campaign is already having a substantial impact.
Director of Recreation Services Tiffany Lomax was interviewed for a story in Campus Rec Magazine about the Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center. In commenting on the dynamic new facility, she highlighted how “we have so many venues now that offer so many different things; it’s really cool to see students just make this place their own.”
A new book by Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs has just been released. What Happened to the Vital Center? "provides a long historical view of populism, party politics, and the growth of presidential power" while also tracing "the joining of executive power and movement politics over the past six decades." In this first book by Jacobs, he ultimately argues for "a reconstituted party system rather than greater presidential power."
Amanda Stent, director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has been named a 2021 fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The association recognized Stent for her "significant contributions to computational models of multimodal and spoken dialogue, natural language generation, and summarization."
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed the paper “The Anxiety of the Copy: Uniqueness and Reproduction in Hergé’s Le Sceptre d’Ottokar” for the recently released book titled Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes (Ed. Kirsty Bell and Philippe Kaenel. Amsterdam: Brill, 2021. 387-400).
The paper stems from a plenary lecture Plesch delivered in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2017, and became the starting point for the Humanities Lab she taught last year on Copies, Fakes, and Forgeries in which students created this website
Alyssa Kullberg '18 and Gail Carlson, assistant professor of environmental studies, have coauthored a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Titled "Contamination of Maine Lakes by pharmaceuticals and personal care products," the paper reports on the under-studied presence of these PPCPs in lakes using samples from Maine's Belgrade Lakes.
Kullberg, an environmental science and Spanish double major, is the lead author; other coauthors include Serena Haver '16, also an environmental science major, and Bill McDowell, a two-year visiting assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies.
Variety interviewed Jun Fang, visiting assistant professor of sociology, for an article discussing the relationship between Hollywood and China’s film industry. Fang is authoring the forthcoming ethnography “When China Meets Hollywood” and provided expertise on the potential impacts on the film industry.
Artforum published a major review of Bob Thompson: This House is Mine before the final week of the exhibition. “What is needed, now and going forward, is for these powerful images to be widely seen,” the author writes. The show will travel around the country after closing at Colby on Jan. 9, 2022.
Assistant Professor of English Sarah Braunstein was included in a discussion on Maine Public. Along with her colleagues in the Starfish Writing Group, the authors discussed the importance of the creative collaborative process.