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For Marginalized Communities, A Need For Environmental Justice Mykela Patton ’22, Gerry Boyle
For Marginalized Communities, A Need For Environmental Justice Mykela Patton ’22, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Mykela Patton works for Communities for a Better Environment, a statewide organization in California that has an office in her home city of East Oakland, which, she says, “historically has a lot of discriminatory zoning practices and a lot of industry that has just been rubber-stamped into the community with little or no community input or look at collective harms.”
Ever More Difficult: For Migrants Reaching The Greek Island Of Lesvos, Conditions Grow More Dire By The Day, Chloe Powers
Ever More Difficult: For Migrants Reaching The Greek Island Of Lesvos, Conditions Grow More Dire By The Day, Chloe Powers
Colby Magazine
Chloé Powers ’19 is the coordinator of Moms2Moms, a grassroots project providing housing to single mothers seeking asylum, and she’s involved in several other migrant solidarity initiatives, including search and rescue efforts, LGBTIQ+ migrant solidarity, and local mutual-aid projects. With the images she has taken, Powers shares her experiences from the Greek island of Lesvos.
A New Window Into Children's Memory: Professor Of Psychology Martha Arterberry's New Study Comes With Implications For Eyewitness Testimonies, Kardelen Koldas
A New Window Into Children's Memory: Professor Of Psychology Martha Arterberry's New Study Comes With Implications For Eyewitness Testimonies, Kardelen Koldas
Colby Magazine
When children are eyewitnesses—to an incident, an accident, or a crime— does age matter? Are older kids more precise in recounting an event than the younger ones?
Goodworks, Claire Sykes
Women At The Helm: Pulling The Chariot Of The Living Goddess Kumari In Kathmandu, Jui Shrestha
Women At The Helm: Pulling The Chariot Of The Living Goddess Kumari In Kathmandu, Jui Shrestha
Colby Magazine
Only very recently were women were allowed to pull the Kumari procession chariots. ... But still, challenges for female chariot pullers remain."
When An Economist Is A Mentor: For Yang Fan, Colby’S Teaching Philosophy Was The Right Fit, Kardelen Koldas
When An Economist Is A Mentor: For Yang Fan, Colby’S Teaching Philosophy Was The Right Fit, Kardelen Koldas
Colby Magazine
They say follow your passion to wherever it takes you. Yang Fan, the new Todger Anderson Assistant Professor of Investing and Behavioral Economics, did just that. He followed his passion for teaching and changed coasts, from West to the East. Now, he’s helping his students find and pursue their passions as well.
Paddling The Green River, Stephen Collins
Paddling The Green River, Stephen Collins
Colby Magazine
If you’ve followed the career of outdoor writer Heather Hansman ’05, you’ll recognize her gasping for air after dumping her raft-load of customers into a Class V rapid on the Gauley River, avoiding avalanches in deep backcountry powder in the Rockies and Cascades, or dodging toxic algae and scary big koi swimming in an urban lake in Seattle.
Ready, Willing, And Able, Gerry Boyle
Ready, Willing, And Able, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
So what gives? How, after four years on Mayflower Hill, do these Colby alumni have an outsized impact in a fintech company that is focused on, for example, changing the way municipal bonds are traded? What makes them able to dive in and figure it out? “That’s part of the liberal arts education,” said Associate Professor of History John Turner, who taught Tagg Martin ’13, history major turned MarketAxess go-to analyst. “You’re always learning. … You are always going to be mastering something, as opposed to having mastered.”
Crash Course: Student Team Uses Statistical Modeling And Bigelow Partnership To Map Moose-Car "Hot Zones", Gerry Boyle, Max Slomiak
Crash Course: Student Team Uses Statistical Modeling And Bigelow Partnership To Map Moose-Car "Hot Zones", Gerry Boyle, Max Slomiak
Colby Magazine
The project began in 2004 when Alex Jospe ’06, a Nordic skier who traveled Maine roads to meets, decided to use skills learned in a GIS class taught by Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Philip Nyhus. Jospe used data supplied by state transportation officials to map moose-collision hot zones. On a trip to Vermont, the map came in handy. “She came back all excited and said, ‘I saw a moose right where my map said I would,’” Nyhus recalled.
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Colby Magazine
William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan is the editor of Photography and Migration, a timely collection of essays about photography and its role in portraying this ongoing humanitarian crisis (See P. 38). At Colby she launched the Photography and Migration Project, which draws connections between global migration and Waterville’s history as a destination for immigrants. She spoke to Colby Magazine Managing Editor Gerry Boyle ’78 about the ways photographs shape our perception of migration.
Waste Not: Josephine Liang Gives Day-Old Food New Value--And Helps Fund Nutritious Meals For London's School Children, Emily Westbrooks
Waste Not: Josephine Liang Gives Day-Old Food New Value--And Helps Fund Nutritious Meals For London's School Children, Emily Westbrooks
Colby Magazine
On Josephine Liang’s first day at UWC Mahindra College in India, she opened the school handbook to find a statistic on the first page that would stick with her for more than a decade. The cost of one semester at UWC, the handbook explained, could fund the education of 40 school children in the local area.
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Colby Magazine
In this, the second installment of the Colby Climate Project series, we explore the work of members of the Colby community who working to address this monumental environmental challenge.
No Going Back: Ground-Breaking Lab Sends Students To Balkan Route To Learn About Refugees--And Themselves, Arne Norris
No Going Back: Ground-Breaking Lab Sends Students To Balkan Route To Learn About Refugees--And Themselves, Arne Norris
Colby Magazine
A double major in global studies and anthropology with a minor in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Powers was in Istanbul networking, scouring the city, making contacts with LGBTI refugees and activists, finding people to share their stories as part of a project at Colby, the Insurgent Mobilities Lab. The lab, involving more than a dozen students, is researching the dynamics of migration along the Balkan Route that hundreds of thousands of refugees have traveled in a grave effort to seek a better life in Northern Europe.
Truth And Consequences: With Harvey Weinstein Investigation, Rebecca Corbett Leads As The New York Times Triggers Cultural Change, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
"And then, five months after the Weinstein investigation began, Corbett, her team, and the Times' highest-ranking editors hunched over a computer screen as the button was pushed. The first Weinstein story was published"
Nature And Nurture: Planner And Architect Mina Amundsen Sees Connections As She Oversees Colby's Growth, Sue Repko
Colby Magazine
Since her childhood in India, Minakshi "Mina" M. Amundsen, assistant vice president for facilities and campus planning, has always been curious about the interconnectedness of the natural world, the built environment, and the humans who navigate both. That fascination with connections has informed her work at Colby in myriad ways.
Anything But Invisible: Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih Marvels At Supportive Colby While Opening Eyes To Global Suppression, Gerry Boyle
Anything But Invisible: Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih Marvels At Supportive Colby While Opening Eyes To Global Suppression, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
A political cartoonist with a global web presence was surprised and gratified to find an equally receptive audience at Colby.
A Night With Ali, Stephen Orlov
A Night With Ali, Stephen Orlov
Colby Magazine
There will never be another like him. And I had the good fortune of sharing a memorable night with the Champ, the greatest sports figure in modern history, at the height of his boxing prowess and controversial career.
Why A Dorm Room Is Like A Climate Treaty, Mariam Khan
Why A Dorm Room Is Like A Climate Treaty, Mariam Khan
Colby Magazine
Nathan Chan shows how economic principles are at play in our everyday lives.
What's The Word? W.E.B. Du Bois, Gerry Boyle
What's The Word? W.E.B. Du Bois, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Professor Cheryl Townsend Gilkes keeps preaching the message of the iconic African-American scholar
Riding The Silk Road, Ayaz Achakzai
Riding The Silk Road, Ayaz Achakzai
Colby Magazine
As development approaches, a mountain trek is an opportunity to contemplate what lies in its path.
The Rest Of The Story: A Nepalese Village Remind That There Often Is A Different Reality Behind The Romantic Narrative, Abukar Adan
Colby Magazine
The rural excursion was part of my semester abroad in the IHP: Human Rights Program, which is intended to give us insight into the rhetoric and reality of human rights through an interdisciplinary, issues-based approach. Over the course of four months, we travel to New York City, Nepal, Jordan, and Chile and learn from a diverse set of individuals and institutions, from academics to indigenous activists, grassroots movements to international aid organizations. Through our visit to this tight-knit village in the hills of the Kathmandu Valley, we were given the opportunity to hear people’s personal narratives.
Redefining "Manly" With Eric Barthold '12, Laura Meader
Redefining "Manly" With Eric Barthold '12, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
Eric Barthold ’12 runs Man Up and Open Up, an offshoot of the sexual assault prevention program Mules Against Violence he began his junior year at Colby. Man Up and Open Up engages young male athletes in conversations about what it means to be a real man.
When Immigrants Teach Students
When Immigrants Teach Students
Colby Magazine
Maine's thriving and vibrant immigrant communities have much to offer for Colby students.
Can We Talk? On College Campuses - Including Mayflower Hill - Free Speech Collides With Political Correctness, Kate Carlisle
Can We Talk? On College Campuses - Including Mayflower Hill - Free Speech Collides With Political Correctness, Kate Carlisle
Colby Magazine
In a world where thoughts can pour directly out of our heads and onto another person’s computer screen, and insults can circle the globe in the time it takes to tap send, these kindergarten admonishments are taking on added resonance on American college campuses.
Coach Kelley And The Kelley Coach: Legendary Hockey Coach Jack Kelley Drops Puck, Mules Shut Out Bowdoin, Stephen Collins
Coach Kelley And The Kelley Coach: Legendary Hockey Coach Jack Kelley Drops Puck, Mules Shut Out Bowdoin, Stephen Collins
Colby Magazine
In the middle of a legendary career in big-time hockey—two Division I NCAA national championships at Boston University, founding the World Hockey Association Hartford Whalers and winning the first WHA league trophy, and later front-office jobs in the NHL—Jack Kelley returned to Colby in 1976-77 after 15 years away to coach men's ice hockey for a year.
Border Issues Demand Empathy: Speakers At Colby's Walker Symposium Consider Ways To Consider La Frontera, Charlie Eichacker
Border Issues Demand Empathy: Speakers At Colby's Walker Symposium Consider Ways To Consider La Frontera, Charlie Eichacker
Colby Magazine
Mexican-American fiction writer Helena Maria Viramontes strives to help her readers understand the harder parts of the Chicano experience. Her first novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, for example, is about the dangerous lives of migrant farm workers in California.
Standing Up To Gender Violence: Soccer Coach Ewan Seabrook Offers Skills, From Colby To The Nba, Abukar Adan
Standing Up To Gender Violence: Soccer Coach Ewan Seabrook Offers Skills, From Colby To The Nba, Abukar Adan
Colby Magazine
Seabrook has a national profile for leading gender-violence prevention training for collegiate and professional athletes, from Colby to Major League Baseball and the NBA. And he knows a bystander’s actions can be powerful. His goal? To get athletes to see themselves as “bystanders who are invested in their teammates’ lives and who … have a social obligation to help them and intervene,” he said.
The Memory Professor: With A $600,000 Grant, Jennifer Coane Continues To Probe What We Remember And Why, Jenny Chen
The Memory Professor: With A $600,000 Grant, Jennifer Coane Continues To Probe What We Remember And Why, Jenny Chen
Colby Magazine
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Coane is an expert in the science of memory, studying how we construct false memories, how memory changes as we age, and how to apply cognitive psychology to study techniques. In August 2015 she received a multiyear $600,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation for her work in understanding human cognition—a prestigious award the foundation typically gives to scientists at large research universities.
Teaching Amid Destruction: Carol Majdalany Williams '75 'P11 Helped Keep A Nepalese School Open And Students Learning, Gerry Boyle
Teaching Amid Destruction: Carol Majdalany Williams '75 'P11 Helped Keep A Nepalese School Open And Students Learning, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Carol Majdalany Williams '75 'P11 helped keep a Nepalese school open and students learning.
Friends In Need: Deported Guatemalans Find Colbians Are Waiting With Surveys, Job Fairs, Assistance, Stephen Collins
Friends In Need: Deported Guatemalans Find Colbians Are Waiting With Surveys, Job Fairs, Assistance, Stephen Collins
Colby Magazine
Deported Guatemalans find Colbians are waiting with surveys, job fairs, assistance. Now a global studies and anthropology double major, Muller '17 has joined the Migrant Peacebuilding Project, an initiative launched by Colby students.