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From The Hill

Colby Magazine

Diversity and the Future of Affirmative Action
William D. Adams, President

No Alternative: Dennis Ross sees negotiation as the only way to end Mideast violence

Just Wondering…
Why is the blue book blue?

A Rare Lecture, Important Lesson

wit & wisdom

Lecture Marks 175 Years of Colby Economics

The Principal Principle

The Other Interview

On The Ground: Guilain Denoeux teaches democracy in Mideast, North Africa

How We Teach

Love of Labor Lost

Q&A: Cheryl Townsend Gilkes on ministering, teaching and immersion in the church

Another Side: AIRE grant gives undergraduate research a voice

The Art of Exploration: Jacqueline Johnson '01 …

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 88, no. 3 (Summer 1999): full issue

From The Hill, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

Bienvenue, M. Kamundu: Congolese Human Rights Activist Named Second Oak Fellow

Child Labor Is Focus of Week-Long Human Rights Program

wit and wisdom

New Museum Wing Takes Flight

MAINEopoly

Watson Fellow Number 50

Carnegie Fellow, Times Two

Linda Cotter Steps (Halfway) Down

178th Commencement Is Colby's Largest Ever

Periscope, Earl Smith

Colby Magazine

Students Salute

Solid Gold

Making History

Building Bridges

Wildlife Sanctuary

Moosecellaneous

Best Remembering

YAHOO!

OOPS!

The Patient Readmission Rate Penalty In The Affordable Care Act, Yoni E. Anija

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 90, no. 2 (Spring 2001): full issue

Periscope, Earl Smith

Colby Magazine

Colby Goes Hollywood

We Remember Michael

Long Arm of the Web

Moosecellaneous

A Muddied Report

All for Tenure

Soccer Stimulation

For Want of a "C"

The Mule before Jakarta

Fast Company

Faculty File, Gerry Boyle, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

Mr. Parasite and the Big Sissy: Margaret McFadden examines American culture in the '30s through movies

The Singular Kerill O'Neill

Pundits & Plaudits

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 88, no. 4 (Fall 1999): full issue

Faculty File, Stephen B. Collins

Colby Magazine

Who's running for Congress and who's not; studying francophone women.

Student Life, Alicia Nemiccolo Macleay

Colby Magazine

Undergraduate research goes year round; unique Alfond apartments opened.

Millennium Story

Colby Magazine

From FDR to the World Wide Web, a sampling of pivotal events and people of the past 100 years as viewed by Colby faculty

Never in the history of humankind has so much happened in so short a time. We began the 20th century as technological infants, having just begun to move beyond the agrarian economies that shaped societies for thousands of years. The distance covered over the next 10 decades was breathtaking.

Scientists revealed mysteries of our universe both large (the cosmos) and small (genetic codes and subatomic physics); engineers gave us grand new inventions that changed our lives …

The Natural, Jeff Clark

Colby Magazine

Just before Thanksgiving Day last November, Kent Wommack '77 got the classic good-news, bad-news, worse-news call. Wommack is head of The Nature Conservancy in Maine, and the caller was a timberland manager who had asked Wommack to back a client in acquiring prime acres of Maine forest on the upper St. John River, one of the most unspoiled waterways left in the United States. The good news was that the owner had agreed to sell the breathtaking chunk of land in the first place. The bad news was that the client was no longer interested in the deal. The worse …

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Colby Magazine

Colby Magazine vol. 88, no. 2 (Spring 1999): full issue

Books & Authors, Sally Baker, Phillip L. Marcus

Colby Magazine

Grace, and a Life Well Lived: Jane Brox '78 writes tenderly and knowingly about the passing of a generation

The Man He Was: Archibald co-edits Yeats's autobiographies

Fresh Prints
American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Judith A. Barter, Kimberly Rhodes and Seth A. Thayer '89
Unraveling Somalia: Race, violence and the legacy of slavery, by Catherine Besteman (anthropology)

From The Hill, Stephen Collins

Colby Magazine

Giant Shoes to Fill: President Bill Cotter to Retire in 2000

Not the Four Tenors

We've Got the Time

Milton Marathon

Five Awarded Tenure

The Colby Canon

Online, Not In Line

Colby Deans Remembered

Lending a Hand Downtown

Biggest Commencement Ever

Strength in Numbers

wit and wisdom

Books & Authors, Sally Baker

Colby Magazine

Who Says Computers Never Lie?: Chipping away at the soul of technology

Fresh Prints:
Modernity at the Edge of Empire, by David Nugent (Anthropology)

Just Desserts

Faculty File, Kevin Cool

Colby Magazine

Now We're Talking Real Money: Or, what does this have to do with the price of eggs in Brazil?

The Core of Discovery

pundits & plaudits
Hillary Hangs Tough
Same Old Stories
Twisting Their Arms
Hey, I Know That Guy!
Fund Razing

Add Nine to Tenured Ranks

Last Page, Anhduy Nguyen

Colby Magazine

Can You See a Sound? Reflections on a Liberal Arts Experience

Interpolating Beach Profile Data Using Linear And Non-Linear Functions, Lance Calloway Croft

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Beach and nearshore surveys are conducted in a variety of ways, the most commonly used being the level-and-transit method; because it is inexpensive, time conducive and highly accurate. Specifically, beach surveys are conducted to better understand cross-shore, long-shore sediment transport processes, as well as to quantify volume changes, which are used to evaluate beach performance. In this study, a section of the beach on Sand Key, FL was surveyed using rod-and-transit. In addition to the commonly used linear data analysis, a non-linear analysis was conducted using NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines).

Survey data was collected within a short time window …

Corporate Governance Sex Regimes: Peripheral Thoughts From Across The Atlantic, Horatia Muir Watt

Pace International Law Review

The very recent and highly mediatized “Declaration of the 343 Salauds”, where 343 (male) signatures in support of prostitution in a form designed to echo the highly significant declaration of as many women in 1971 in favor of the legalization of abortion, sheds particularly interesting light upon debate about sex regimes in connection with French law. France has recently introduced compulsory quotas for women in corporate boards after imposing la parité for public appointments. A comparative perspective, confronting this recent legislative development from across the Atlantic with policy views on affirmative action and philosophical conceptions of diversity in the United …

A Difficult Conversation: Corporate Directors On Race And Gender, Kimberly D. Krawiec, John M. Conley, Lissa L. Broome

Pace International Law Review

This symposium essay summarizes our ongoing ethnographic research on corporate board diversity. This research is based on fifty-seven interviews with corporate directors and a limited number of other persons of interest (including institutional investors, executive search professionals, and proxy advisors) regarding their views on race and gender diversity in the boardroom.

Using a method rooted in anthropology and discourse analysis, we have worked from a general topic outline and conducted open-ended interviews in which respondents are encouraged to raise and develop issues of interest to them. The interviews range from forty-five minutes to two hours in length and each interview …

Modifying Essentialist Beliefs Toward Mental Illness: An Alternative Focus For Anti-Stigma Interventions, Frederick T. Chin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Science and Technology Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science by Fredrick T. Chin on July 8, 2014.

From War To Liminality: Female Iraqi Refugees In Jordan, Gwendolyn Schaefer

Kaleidoscope

No abstract provided.

Gelin’: Membership, Space, And Stylistics In South African Queer Culture, Joseph Mann

Kaleidoscope

No abstract provided.

African Americans' Perceived Social Identities Through Media Projection, Adenike Orekoya

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

African Americans are commonly defined by artificial characteristics which portray them in restrictive roles. This is a result of media’s influence and the way its messages shape society. As a result, African Americans’ self-identity is shaped by the negative images they see and hear in their environment. Based on the application of Feminist Standpoint Theory in concurrence with Semiotic Theory, this study examines the consequences and effect of bias media messages. Furthermore, it investigates these consequences on African Americans' individual and collective identity due to media depictions. This thesis investigates how public opinion affects African Americans’ perception of themselves. The …

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

Health Policy & Community Health: News & Publications (2011-2018)

• Dr. Luque Elected to SMA Board

Determining What Factors Affect Peoples' Perceptions Of The Use Of Reclaimed Water As A Source For Potable Water: A Study Within Hillsborough County, Florida, Susana Rebecca Alvarado Tricoche

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In response to water supply depletion challenges, countries such as Australia, the United States, and Namibia have implemented technologies that treat wastewater up to the standards permissible to use for irrigation, toilet flushing, and even drinking water. However, many of these countries have been unable to successfully implement some of their ambitious reclaimed water reuse projects due to negative public perceptions of recycling wastewater. The focus of this study was to understand which factors in risk perception theory are the most influential in shaping community perceptions of reclaimed water reuse as a future source of drinking water within Hillsborough County. …

Rural Parents’ Perceived Stigma Of Seeking Mental Health Services For Their Children: Development And Evaluation Of A New Instrument, Stacey L. William, Jodi Polaha

ETSU Faculty Works

The purpose of our research was to examine the validity of score interpretations of an instrument developed to measure parents’ perceptions of stigma about seeking mental health services for their children. The validity of the score interpretations of the instrument was tested in 2 studies. Study 1 employed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), using a split half approach, and construct and criterion validity on data from the entire sample of parents in rural Appalachia whose children were experiencing psychosocial concerns (N = 347), while Study 2 employed CFA, construct and criterion validity, and predictive validity of the scores on data from …

Species-Level View Of Population Structure And Gene Flow For A Critically Endangered Primate (Varecia Variegata), Andrea L. Baden, Sheila M. Holmes, Steig E. Johnson, Shannon E. Engberg, Edward E. Louis, Brenda J. Bradley

Publications and Research

Lemurs are among the world's most threatened mammals. The critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), in particular, has recently experienced rapid population declines due to habitat loss, ecological sensitivities to habitat degradation, and extensive human hunting pressure. Despite this, a recent study indicates that ruffed lemurs retain among the highest levels of genetic diversity for primates. Identifying how this diversity is apportioned and whether gene flow is maintained among remnant populations will help to diagnose and target conservation priorities. We sampled 209 individuals from 19 sites throughout the remaining V. variegata range. We used 10 polymorphic microsatellite loci and …