You never know what Colby students will be thankful for. But if it's something that happens on campus, chances are Colby’s donors are, at least in part, behind it.
That’s why students came to Pulver Pavilion March 13 to celebrate the first annual Thank a Donor Day. Students filled out 400 ...
Students Thank Donors in 400 Ways
Posted On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Colby Cares, Colby’s donors, Pamela Alakai, Pulver Pavilion, Social media
You never know what Colby students will be thankful for. But if it's something that happens on campus, chances are Colby’s donors are, at least in part, behind it.
That’s why students came to Pulver Pavilion March 13 to celebrate the first annual Thank a Donor Day. Students filled out 400 ...
Total Insanity: The Red Eye Film Festival
Posted On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: craziness, festival-style screening, random—drawn, Red Eye film festival, silliness, Urned Business
“It’s absolute craziness,” said Sarah Fensore ’13.
“There’s nothing quite like doing a Red Eye film,” Josh Rothenberg ’14 said.
“Ridiculous is a nice way to put it,” Fensore continued.
What is so insane? Every January, Powder and Wig, Colby’s student-run theater group, hosts the Red Eye film festival, a 24-hour crash course ...
Bowdoin Feeds Farmers to Bolster Ties to Local Food Economy
Posted On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Jonathan Holmes, Mary Lou Kennedy, Paul Dobbins, Thorne Dining Hall
When Paul Dobbins walked into Thorne Dining Hall on a recent afternoon for lunch, introducing himself as a Portland-based seaweed farmer to Mary Lou Kennedy, her eyes lit up.
“I would love to get some of your kelp here!” exclaimed Kennedy, Bowdoin’s director of dining. “It’s such a great source of ...
Conner Wins Kennedy Center Award
Posted On Monday, February 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Excellent Adaptation of Old Greek Comedy, Kennedy Center Award, Lynne Conner, Theater Festival Merit Award
Associate Professor Lynne Conner (theater and dance) received a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Merit Award for "Excellent Adaptation of Old Greek Comedy." Her original adaptation of Aristophanes's Lysistrata premiered in November 2012 as part of the Theater and Dance Department's main stage season in Strider Theater.
Conner wrote and ...
McClenachan Named Sloan Research Fellow
Posted On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Alfred P. Sloan, fellowship program, Loren McClenachan, oceanography, Scientific American
Loren McClenachan, assistant professor of environmental studies, is one of 126 scientists to receive a 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 14.
The fellowship program seeks to “stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise,” according to the foundation’s website. The prestigious two-year ...
UMaine Researchers Study The Role of Lamprey In Stream Restoration
Posted On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: amber fish, lamprey, majestic rivers, Stephen Coghlan’s grip, stream restoration, thrashing black
The thrashing black and amber fish in Stephen Coghlan’s grip is unsightly, but its humble appearance — a snake-like body, milky eyes and parasitic funnel of yellow teeth -— belie the sea lamprey’s importance to the small Sedgeunkedunk Stream and, possibly, Coghlan contends, some of the state’s most majestic rivers.
Coghlan, ...
Library Exhibition Highlights Bowdoin’s Own In The Civil War
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Bowdoin’s George J. Mitchell, Civil War, Department of Special Collections, Joshua L. Chamberlain, Winslow Homer
Bowdoin Library’s Special Collections has delved into its extensive trove of Civil War-era letters, diaries, artifacts and newspaper clippings to create a new exhibition exploring Bowdoin during the Civil War. Called “Bowdoin Boys in Blue — and Gray,” the presentation focuses on those who fought, died, suffered through or made ...
Frank Goodyear And Anne Collins Goodyear Named Museum of Art Co-Directors
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Anne Collins Goodyear, Frank Goodyear, Museum of Art Co-Directors, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Frank H. Goodyear III and Anne Collins Goodyear have been named co-directors of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The announcement was made January 30, 2013, by Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.
Frank Goodyear currently serves as curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, ...
Samantha Eddy ’13 Learns That A Special Colby Woman Paved The Way
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Colby, Discovering, Female faculty, fiery, Maine, Miss Runnals, Samantha Eddy, though, women’s enrollment
At the dawn of the 20th century, the future of women at Colby was uncertain. Female faculty members didn’t teach male students, many male alumni opposed rising women’s enrollment, and housing men and women on separate campuses was getting serious consideration. Into this charged atmosphere entered Ninetta Runnals ’08, a ...
Regulatory Reform Needed in the Quest for Renewable Energy Alternatives
Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: Energy Law and Policy, Environmental, Renewable Energy Alternatives, University of Maine’s
Amid the economic and environmental realities of fossil fuel dependence in the United States, regulatory processes need immediate reform to allow renewable energy initiatives such as offshore wind to provide alternatives, according to the University of Maine’s first School of Economics Visiting Professor of Energy Law and Policy.
Indeed, argues Jeffrey ...
UMaine Opens New Campus Composting Facility
Posted On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: campus composting facility, Cooperative Extension, Dining Services, Food Waste, University of Maine
A joint collaboration between the University of Maine Dining Services and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will establish the first facility for advanced composting of food waste in Maine.
The effort involves the purchase of a 10-foot by 40-foot enclosed, automated composting unit called the EarthFlow 40, manufactured by Green Mountain ...
Old Town Science Students Part of UMaine Research on Mercury Contamination
Posted On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MAINE Tags: dragonfly larvae, Ed Lindsey’s, Mercury Contamination, University of Maine, zooplankton
Old Town High School senior Andrew Brothers says the dragonfly larvae and zooplankton in teacher Ed Lindsey’s science lab are even more fun than the ant farm he had as a kid.
But the project Brothers is working on is far from child’s play.
Brothers, along with senior Samantha Emerson, and sophomores ...
