A teenage misfit with hair down to his waist, Millard Dority joined COA in 1970, two years before students would arrive. Decades later, he’s become “a living archive of COA,” president Darron Collins ’92 says, embodying the college’s mission, integral to its operations, and passing on practical knowledge to generations of students.
College of the Atlantic is pleased to welcome Ming-Tso Chien as the 2020-21 Predoctoral Visiting Teaching Fellow in Educational Studies. Working to dismantle structural barriers of equity, inclusion, and social justice, Chien provides students with a platform to explore education and tell stories across cultures.
Painter and performance artist Daniel Kojo Schrade uses Afrofuturism and non-representational imagery to recontextualize the past, and encourages students to find their own spaces and voices.
Acclaimed College of the Atlantic film professor Nancy Andrews is the winner of a 2017 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Short Form Breakthrough Series for her offbeat, sci-fi YouTube show, “The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes.”
For the two different groups of impassioned student activists Dr. Doreen Stabinsky leads to the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the similarities are striking.
The Maine Music Educators Association celebrates its 100th anniversary this month with the performance of a special orchestral piece written by College of the Atlantic Composer in Residence John Cooper.
Maine Public Radio hosts College of the Atlantic James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity Dr. Jamie McKown, alongside colleagues from University of Southern Maine and Bates College, for an analysis on the latest from Washington.
“The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes,” a genre-busting action, sci-fi musical series filmed in and around College of the Atlantic by film professor Nancy Andrews, is now streaming online.
Noted for her great enthusiasm, experience, humor, and intellect, Professor Jodi Baker is named College of the Atlantic’s first Chair in Performing Arts.
The work of College of the Atlantic film professor Nancy Andrews is featured in a new series of art books, “What It Means To Be Human,” published by The Arts Company Inc./Artists in Context, 2016.
COA faculty and staff were noted among the most influential people in Maine, voted volunteers of the year, celebrated as authors of new books, and sought after as thought leaders in the world of human ecology and politics in 2016.
Judy Allen, the Associate Director of Allied Whale and the Project Director of the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog, is Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary’s Volunteer of the Year.
With the help of alumni, trustees, parents, staff, students, faculty, and many, many friends, College of the Atlantic raised over 750 gifts in one day, netting a generous challenge gift of $24,000.
Film Prof. Nancy Andrews’ The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes is among 10 films chosen for a year-long development fellowship with the Independent Filmmaker Project.
College of the Atlantic Professor of Botany Nishanta Rajakaruna is teaching seminars this week at the Institute of Natural Sciences of the Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.