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Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was featured in Fortune’s “Eye on AI” column. In addition to including commentary from President Greene, who said that “the liberal arts need AI, but AI also needs the liberal arts,” Director Amanda Stent noted how the institute can foster multi-disciplinary collaboration that’s vital for making AI achieve its potential while side-stepping potential negative ramifications.
Associate Professor of Music Natalie Zelensky wrote a review of the book Music in the American Diasporic Wedding (ed. Inna Naroditskaya. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019) that appeared in the Spring 2021 Journal of American Folklore. "Music in the American Diasporic Wedding presents fruitful terrain for exploring the concepts of migration, community, ritual, and music’s pivotal role in navigating these social arenas," Zelensky wrote.
Assistant Professor of Italian Danila Cannamela recently published a new paper, "Italian Trans Geographies: Retracing Trans/Cultural Narratives of People and Places," in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. "This article maps an overlooked cultural history of Italy by exploring the literary notion of ‘trans geographies’–a subgenre at the crossroads of autobiography, memoir, and travel narrative–through the memorialist work of sociologist and trans activist Porpora Marcasciano," according to its abstract.
Cannamela's other recent publications:
- “Through the Eyes of the Beast: Feminist ‘Dark Ecologies’ in Alda Teodorani’s Belve,” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
- “Gruppo 93 and the Young Cannibals: Technology, Irony, and a Sudden Wave of Unacceptable Violence,” Rivista di Studi Italiani
- “‘I am an Atypical Mother’: Motherhood and Maternal Language in Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s Poetry,” Forum Italicum
- “Neither Utopia nor Juvenile Transgression: Retracing the Link between the ’77 Movement, Autonomy, and Literature,” Italian Studies
- “Italian Ecopoetry, or the Art of Reading through Negativity,” Modern Language Notes
The Associated Press shared Colby’s announcement that added caste to its nondiscrimination policy. The AP story was picked up by a number of media outlets, including ABC News, Boston.com, Orlando.com, Britain's Daily Mail, the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, to name a few.
The Bangor Daily News, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed wrote about how Colby has added caste to its nondiscrimination policy.
RT Insights spoke with the inaugural Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Director Amanda Stent about why she came to this role, what she’s most excited about, and how the institute will help benefit the future of AI across multiple disciplines.
A solo show by painter and sculptor Jim Condron '92 was covered in the Baltimore Sun. The show is on view in the Scott Center at the Carroll Community College. Condron also has a two-person show at the Platform Project space in Brooklyn.
The New York City Department of Education has purchased 6,175 copies of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, a book by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, to include in the city's mosaic curriculum, aiming to diversify and standardize English and math instruction across all its schools.
Associate Professor of Mathematics Scott Taylor has been awarded a three-year collaborative NSF research grant to connect the theory of spatial graphs to knot theory and the theory of 3-D spaces, which will contribute to understanding DNA and protein structures. The grant will also support student research at Colby and Taylor's Sum Camp, a summer camp that uses arts and math games to build basic numeracy skills of students in Waterville Public Schools.
Professor of Psychology Melissa Glenn has coauthored a paper, “Overtraining Strengthens the Visual Discrimination Memory Trace Outside the Hippocampus in Male Rats,” recently accepted in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. This paper was the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with colleagues from Trent University in Ontario, Canada, and describes a series of experiments that show how memories for visual discriminations are organized in neural systems. The findings of these experiments challenge long-held theoretical views on the role of the hippocampus in memory.