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Interdisciplinary Studies

Greater Good?

Study uncovers unexpected motives of anti-vaxxers
Students reading in classroom
Social Sciences

What Kids Can Teach Us

Unlike adults, children judge people based on their actions, not race
Tayo Clyburn
Announcements

Clyburn Joins Colby as Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Tayo Clyburn, presently vice president of inclusive diversity and equity and chief diversity officer at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, has been named dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for Colby. He comes to Mayflower Hill with extensive experience in diversity and inclusion in higher education. At Colby Clyburn…
Chicken
Social Sciences

Tastes like Chicken? It’s Not that Simple

Paul Josephson traces journey from barnyard to factory farm
Christine Hein runs in Cumberland and North Yarmouth
Alumni

Running Toward The Challenge

Tenacity and grit deployed in COVID-19 fight
Social Sciences

A Journey of Understanding

Cultural immersion sheds light on little-understood Jewish movement
Announcements

Migrants’ Rights Activist to be 2020 Oak Human Rights Fellow

The Oak Institute for Human Rights is proud to announce the 2020 Oak Human Rights Fellow: Nasim Lomani, a human rights defender and migrants’ rights activist, who has been working in Greece and across the EU for over a decade, will join the Colby community this fall.
Cattle running across grasslands in Africa
Environment and Climate

In Africa, Using Nature to Protect Nature

Ecological Systems Matt Brown ’92Africa Regional Managing Director Fresh out of Colby in 1992, Matt Brown joined the Peace Corps. His assignment—tending a tree nursery in Ghana—set him on a lifelong path. After two and a half years of volunteer service growing trees, Brown spent another…
Civil rights march
Social Sciences

Unfinished Business

Robert Weisbrot, the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and coauthor of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s, traces the very direct line between the Civil Rights Era and today’s racial unrest. Weisbrot spoke with Editorial Director Gerry Boyle ’78.
Empty downtown shops
Social Sciences

A Tale of Two Economic Crises?

Five questions for economic historian James Siodla