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Q&A With Richard Blanco, Poet And Visiting Artist, Colby College May 2020

Q&A With Richard Blanco, Poet And Visiting Artist, Colby College

Colby Magazine

For the spring 2018 semester, Richard Blanco, inaugural poet at Barack Obama's second inaugration, is the artist in residence at Colby's Lunder Institute for American Art. He's teaching a one-credit course to Colby Students who use works in the Colby museum to teach poetry to area children.


Silence Is Golden: Eschewing Medicine And The Marine Corps, James Ross Finds A Contemplative Path To Fulfillment, Maeve Dolan May 2020

Silence Is Golden: Eschewing Medicine And The Marine Corps, James Ross Finds A Contemplative Path To Fulfillment, Maeve Dolan

Colby Magazine

"There are many translators but not many businesspeople in Buddhism, because it's not often seen as a compatible path with a contemplative lifestyle." -James Ross '18


Designing A Future: Silicon Valley-Born Brit Biddle '19 Melds Tech And Art Of Mayflower Hill, Mareisa Weil May 2020

Designing A Future: Silicon Valley-Born Brit Biddle '19 Melds Tech And Art Of Mayflower Hill, Mareisa Weil

Colby Magazine

"This education has taught me how to look at a problem and really think about it. And i've been able to balance that out with art." -Brit Biddle '19


Blacklisted But Not Defeated: Jack Foner Returned To Academe After 30 Years And Made Colby A Leader In African-American Studies, Gerry Boyle May 2020

Blacklisted But Not Defeated: Jack Foner Returned To Academe After 30 Years And Made Colby A Leader In African-American Studies, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

Colby hired Jack Foner and in a single stroke, a then nearly all-white liberal arts college in Maine became home to one of the first African-American Studies programs in the country.


Brilliant: A Gifted Leader And Academic, Marnay Avant Is Ready To Inspire As A Professor Of Color, Mareisa Weil May 2020

Brilliant: A Gifted Leader And Academic, Marnay Avant Is Ready To Inspire As A Professor Of Color, Mareisa Weil

Colby Magazine

"I think it is important to be a professor, especially a professor of color, because you get to inspire and shape the minds of so many people." -Marnay Avant '18


Question And Answer, Elly Bookman May 2020

Question And Answer, Elly Bookman

Colby Magazine

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The Right Path: Pandit Mami '14 And Friends Make School Possible Once Again For Children In Freetown, Sierra Leone, Laura Meader May 2020

The Right Path: Pandit Mami '14 And Friends Make School Possible Once Again For Children In Freetown, Sierra Leone, Laura Meader

Colby Magazine

"You have to explain to them that in the long run this kid is going to be more helpful to you if they're in school than they are selling food in the streets of Freetown." -Pandit Mami '14