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Full Issue - Spring 2023 - Volume 110, Issue 1, Colby College

Colby Magazine

Spring 2023, vol. 110 no. 1

04: From the Editor
05: Table of Contents
06. Downtown Colby
14. Diagnosing Autism More Precisely
16. An Inside Pitch
22. Colby's New Labs Address Critical Issues and Initiatives
26. In Support of the Academic Mission
28. A Building for Everybody
36. Robust Financial Aid Program is Key to Colby's Mission
38. 'Quite a Triumph'
44. Class Notes
66. Obituaries
80. William R. Cotter, Colby's Longest-Tenured President

Full Issue - Spring 2025 - Volume 112, Issue 1, Colby College

Colby Magazine

04. Planting Seeds to Grow a Stronger Community
16. Retiring Provost McFadden: Colby’s ‘Special Sauce’ is What Makes it Great
24. Pulver Scholars Explore Scientific Possibility
32. A Warm Wilderness Welcome for New Colby Students
42. Dare Northward is Shaping Colby as a Global Leader
48. Bringing Them All Back Home

Mortal Rivers: A Case Study Analysis Of Indigenous Water Sovereignty Within The Penobscot And Lakota Nations, 19th Century To Present, Moya S. Stringer

Honors Theses

Indigenous water sovereignty has long been a contested problem within the continent of Turtle Island. In 2016, the Lakota Nation globalized the message Water is Life through their movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil infrastructure that would put one of the continent’s largest watersheds at risk. The revolutionary fervor of the Water is Life movement travelled all the way to the Penobscot Nation in the Dawnland, a place we now call Maine. In an adjacent vein to the Lakota, the Penobscot people have spent the 21st century addressing damming projects and rampant pollution from the 1900s in a …

The Colby Echo (2024-11-21), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

The Colby Echo (2023-04-20), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

"It’S Just Another Thing”: Perceptions Of Well Water Quality And Barriers In An Arsenic Hot Spot, Linzy Rosen

Honors Theses

Privately owned water is the primary source of drinking water for 43 million Americans. Although residential or private wells are susceptible to a variety of contaminants, the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 positions individuals as responsible for the testing, remediation, and management of this water. Despite the elevated presence of arsenic in Maine, which is linked to various cancers, cardiovascular disease, and neurological damage, little is known about how private well owners perceive the safety and quality of their own water.

This study takes a qualitative approach to understanding concerns and opinions by conducting semi - structured interviews with …

Shorter Takes (Short Form), Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Full Issue, Colby College

Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 107, no.1 (Spring 2019): full issue

The Colby Echo (2021-03-18), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Colby College Catalogue 2020-2021, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

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Colby College Catalogue 2019-2020, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Colby College Catalogue 2018-2019, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Nutrient Limitation On Toxin Production For The Harmful Algal Bloom Species, Pseudo-Nitzschia, In The Gulf Of Maine, Julia M. Park

Honors Theses

Pseudo-nitzschia is a pennate marine diatom that produces the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA). Domoic acid accumulates in the digestive tract of filter feeders and becomes concentrated at higher trophic levels. When DA concentrations reach critical levels, consumption of toxic shellfish can induce a condition known as Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP), which has been responsible for the deaths of marine mammals, seabirds and humans. This study worked to respond to a toxic Pseudo-nitzschia bloom in the Gulf of Maine during the fall of 2016, with the goal of quantifying and identifying Pseudo-nitzschia spp. in the bloom region and to determine the …

Big Data: Computational Biology Opens A New Window On The World's Challenges For Colby Scientists, Kate Carlisle

Colby Magazine

"What makes us 'us' and not a plant? Not a bacteria, or a virus," asks Andrea Tilden, the J. Warren Merrill Associate Professor of Biology and a genomics expert. "Any one genome has six thousand novels worth of information. Computational biology is the tool we use to read them."

Atlas Of Maine: The Surficial Geology Of Mount Desert Island, Maine, Alyson Churchill

Atlas of Maine

My map, titled Surficial Geology of Mount Desert Island, Maine, depicts the surficial geology recorded on Mount Desert Island, as well as measurements of the geologic attitude of various features, and the locations of dikes, faults, and linear glacial features. Different lithologies are distinguished by various hues and saturations, with a solid line marking known or certain contacts and a dotted line marking approximate contacts. Geologic attitude variables that are represented include the strike and dip of beds, strike of vertical beds, strike and dip of foliation, strike of vertical foliation, strike and dip of flow layering, strike of …

Colby College Catalogue 2017 - 2018, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2017 - May 2018

Class Notes

Colby Magazine

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Colby Magazine Vol. 78 No. 2: Spring 1989, Colby College

Colby Magazine

No abstract provided.

Colby Magazine Vol. 77, No. 3: Fall 1988, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Colby Magazine Vol. 77, No. 2: Spring 1988, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Colby Magazine Vol. 85, No. 1: February 1996, Colby College

Colby Magazine

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Atlas Of Maine: Major Shellfish Distribution Around Acadia National Park, Ryan Clemens

Atlas of Maine

This map highlights known distribution of soft shell clams, blue mussels, and sea scallops around Mount Desert Island and the surrounding coastline of Maine, centering on Acadia National Park.

Atlas Of Maine: Bar Harbor Bounty: Shellfish Habitat Near Mount Desert Island, Ian R. Liphart

Atlas of Maine

Bar Harbor Bounty: Shellfish Habitat near Mount Desert Island details the known habitats of four different shellfish varieties in the vicinity of MDI. The seafood industry has long been a staple for the Downeast region, and these areas are crucial habitat. The map shows near coast bathymetry and shellfish habitat data from the Maine office of GIS. It also includes general boundaries of Acadia National Park and a hillshade of the Maine coast for visual reference. This map is not intended for use in navigation.

Atlas Of Maine: Bird Habitat And Nesting On Mount Desert Island, Hannah Kwasman

Atlas of Maine

This map shows the critical habitat and nesting sites of important bird species in Maine. Although Acadia National Park is a protected zone, many of the key locations are not located within the park itself. Even for the few areas within the park, these sites see human traffic via hiking trails. The Human Development Intensity is based on a Maine Office of GIS dataset that indexes these values. The map is projected using the NAD83, Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 19N coordinate system.

Colby College Catalogue 2016 - 2017, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2016 - August 2017

World-Class Research: Biomedical Science Beyond Experimentation

Colby Magazine

Faculty and relationships with Maine’s big-three research labs propel Colby’s opportunities in biomedical science

Could childhood nutrition set late-life brain function?

Hitting the lab running

Ahmad wins grant for study of neurodegenerative disease

Colby College Catalogue 2015 - 2016, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2015 - August 2016

Alumni At Large

Colby Magazine

Catching Up: Alumni Profiles
More Than Bears: Linda Wrigley '89 M.D.
Anything for Tampa: Kevin Plummer ’89
Pedaling Her Crops: Hannah Converse ’09

Updates

Newsmakers

Obituaries

Shellfish Closure Trends Near Mt. Desert Island, Maine, Marianne Ferguson

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

Shellfish are a popular commercial fishery harvest in Maine. However, they are susceptible to biotoxins transmitted by toxic phytoplankton, which can lead to paralytic or amnesic shellfish poisoning of the humans that consume them. The Maine Department of Marine Resources has a phytoplankton monitoring program in place to detect such biotoxins and to close areas of shellfish harvesting if need be. Since 2001, they have archived the data from every closure. One of Maines shellfish species, the Blue Mussel, is sensitive to environmental changes and is known as a bio-monitor of pollution. Therefore, a method will be developed to analyze …

Colby College Catalogue 2014 - 2015, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2014 - August 2015