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The exhibition currently on view at the Colby College Museum of Art, Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, received a substantial review in the Boston Globe. Art critic Murray Whyte said the artist's first major retrospective in more than 30 years is "captivating, complex, and undeniably great. It’s also testament to how easily even powerful work can end up tucked away in history’s back pages."

Bixby Chocolate will open an artisan café in the forthcoming Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville, the Morning Sentinel reported. "Having a presence there is a golden opportunity for our company, and we’re truly looking forward to serving the visitors of this inspiring forum for enjoying the arts,” Bixby's CEO Kate McAleer told the Sentinel.

Religion News Services quoted Cheryl Townsend Gilkes as saying that the election of the Rev. Gina Stewart as the first woman president of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society is "absolutely historic." It's also a big development for the role of African American female religious leaders and "represents the reaching of very high ground in the struggle for equity, justice, and inclusion for Baptist women,” said Gilkes, Colby's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African American Studies and Sociology.

Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto coauthored a new paper, "An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI," accepted to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "As the title suggests, it describes the development and validation of a conceptual framework for personality-related skills (e.g., social engagement, emotional resilience, self-management) and an inventory for measuring these skills (the BESSI)," Soto explained.

Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Sagaser gave a presentation, "Generative Reading: Shakespeare, Dickinson, Shockley,” at the Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting Aug. 7-8. Integrating cognitive poetics, history, and literary experiment, Sagaser explored 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson’s critical, creative reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets, particularly those that figure and address future readers. She then turned to 21st-century poet Evie Shockley’s critical, creative approach to Dickinson and the compelling ways Shockley’s poems “Tell all the truth/But tell it slant,” stirring or startling readers into thinking more complexly and historically about racial injustice. The talk is available on the EDIS youtube channel, here.

A segment by ABC affiliate WMTW featured a tour of the Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center and interviews of staff, including Associate Director of Athletics Pat Ratke, who said that a rival athletics director called the new facility the "Disneyworld for college athletics."

Elizabeth Seto, assistant professor of psychology, was featured in a PsyPost article, discussing her research on the intersections of psychopathic tendencies and authenticity. According to its website, "PsyPost is a psychology and neuroscience news website dedicated to reporting the latest research on human behavior, cognition, and society."

The Colby College Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt, was featured in Maine Home+Design's print magazine and online edition. "The prints Cassatt produced during this earlier period reveal her boundlessly creative process and experimentation," the article stated.

Josh Kim '22, who founded the Cubby, an online marketplace for art made by college students, was included in an article by the New York Times, discussing Gen Z's involvement with NFT, or nonfungible token, art. "Mr. Kim plans to introduce NFTs in the coming months, which, he said, will further the site’s mission to help young creators 'achieve financial success,'" the article stated.

Cook and author Jonathan Bardzik '96 started his own cooking show, the Amherst Bulletin reports. The show airs on Revry, a global LGBTQ+ streaming network. Bardzik “is a force of nature and as a gay married chef, we knew his talents would connect with our audience," Revry CEO Damian Pelliccione told the Bulletin.