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As Maine colleges prepared for the return to campus, Colby came out on top for its diligence in safety protocols to combat Covid-19. Both WGME-TV and the Portland Press Herald shared articles covering this topic.
An NYC developer has plans to turn an abandoned mill in downtown Waterville into affordable housing and commercial space, reports the Morning Sentinel. The article also mentions Colby’s contributions to the city’s revitalization, including the Lockwood Hotel and the Greene Block + Studios.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed an essay to the 2022 winter issue of the Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly titled “Of Dead Artists and Time Travel,” in which she had the occasion to talk about teaching and, in particular, to mention her recent Renaissance art course. Plesch also wrote the introduction to this issue, "Interview: Inner View.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie co-edited the new special issue of Northeastern Naturalist, Climate Change in the Mountains of Maine and the Northeast. This special issue is an outcome of the October 2020 Symposium on Climate Change in Maine’s Mountains, a two-day virtual gathering to foster collaboration between land conservation and research communities. McDonough MacKenzie was a co-organizer of the symposium and co-chaired the Alpine Habitat and Management session. Following the symposium, McDonough MacKenzie and Sarah Nelson, director of research at the Appalachian Mountain Club, co-edited the special issue and co-authored the introduction with the symposium co-organizers. The special issue summarizes and synthesizes research on the impacts of climate change on the local climate and ecosystems and offers a research and conservation agenda for Northeastern mountain ecosystems.
A textbook written by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson has been published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. Human Health and the Climate Crisis examines "both the direct and indirect human health impacts of climate change while uniquely exploring climate justice—the equitable protection of all people from climate impacts and the participation of all people in climate-related decision-making regardless of race/ethnicity, class, national origin, indigenous status and gender."
Professor of Creative Writing Debra Spark wrote the article "Career Pivots" about Yale alumni who have made a major career change later in life. "The pandemic gave us a gift," Spark writes. "Well, of sorts. A reminder of something we already know: we are all vulnerable; we must value what we have. Or, if we don’t value what we have, that we don’t 'have unlimited time to change,' as life coach Kirsten Parker ’11MFA notes."
Raffael Scheck, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Chair in History, was interviewed for Netflix's new series WWII in Color: Road to Victory. He appears in three episodes, namely "Dunkirk," "the Invasion of North Africa," and "the Liberation of Paris."
Hyperallergic published a review of the Bob Thompson exhibition currently on view at the Colby College Museum of Art. The writer noted that, “This House is Mine … is a triumph in scale and curation, and the abundance of provocative imagery poses new questions regarding his legacy.”
In a list of top things to do around the Boston area, the Boston Globe included the Colby Museum of Art exhibition Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, which is currently on view through Jan. 9, 2022.
In its video story "Art by the incarcerated," CBS News included an exhibition in Portland last fall co-curated by Olivia Hochstadt '21 that was a part of the statewide initiative Freedom & Captivity, spearheaded by Catherine Besteman, Colby’s Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology. "What surprised me the most was how kind the people I met were: respectful, courteous," said Hochstadt, who last summer landed an internship with the nonprofit Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition that took her inside the Maine State Prison to hold weekly art classes.