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Minke whale skeleton from Maine finds new home in the Arizona desert
News Center writes about how wanting to inspire students in a land-locked state to think more about marine life, College of the Atlantic Captain Toby Stephenson delivers a Minke whale skeleton from Bar Harbor, Maine to the Bisbee Science Lab in Arizona.
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Gill presented with Friend of the Planet award by National Center for Science Education
Paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill ’05 is named a 2020 Friend of the Planet for her “extraordinary” research, outreach, and education on climate change.
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Maine professor explains how conspiracy theories pose a threat to democracy
COA James Russell Wiggins Chair in Government and Polity Jamie Mckown explores conspiracy theories and the attack on the US Capitol, WMTW reports.
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Cooking up a passion for local food: farm to table class introduces students to Maine’s agricultural bounty
Family and computer science teacher Jennifer Crandall ’93 brings her Mount Desert Island High School students to College of the Atlantic Peggy Rockefeller Farms for lessons in healthy food systems and the human ecology of food.
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River Gull returns home
A 400-mile journey, fog-bound nights, navigational surprises, and long days on the water provide the backdrop for bonding and self discovery for a crew of students and alumnx tasked with bringing a donated sailboat from New York to Bar Harbor.
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College of the Atlantic names philosophy chair
Dr. Heather Lakey ’00, M.Phil. ’05 makes philosophy accessible and relevant, encouraging students to slow down, think through their experiences, and recognize the ideas that shape their perspectives. She is the inaugural holder of the COA McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology, a newly endowed faculty position.
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Building a co-op economy in Maine – and perhaps in your state too
Non-Profit Quarterly reports on the hope, self-reliance, and interdependence that co-ops create could offer solutions to some of Maine’s economic challenges, according to College of the Atlantic Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences Dr. Davis Taylor and the Director of the Cooperative Business Institute’s Business Ownership Solutions Program Rob Brown.
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Senior nets coveted Watson Fellowship
College of the Atlantic senior Indiana Núñez Sharer ’20 will travel the world for a year studying motherhood, matriarchal communities, and how mothers use their collective voices to heal trauma and violence, following the award of a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
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On The Record With…Sean Todd Of Allied Whale
College of the Atlantic Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences Dr. Sean Todd explains to Working Waterfront why the endangered North Atlantic right whale is a species worth saving, and how we might go about doing so.
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Northeast Geological Society lauds watershed work
A self-designed research project mapping and monitoring a watershed in Acadia National Park wins the Best Student Poster Award for Sahra Gibson ’20 and collaborators at the Northeast Geological Society of Maine’s student conference.
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How A Man Born Into Poverty In Nepal Inspired Thousands Of Children To Finish School
Education pioneer Surya Karki ’16 has been working to transform Nepal’s school system since he was a student at College of the Atlantic, opening his first school in the country in 2015, as he tells The Telegraph. Since that time, Karki and his charity, United World Schools Nepal, have launched 30 schools, with seven more on…
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Don’t expect to see plastic straws at College of the Atlantic, the school has banned all single-use plastic products
News Center Maine reports on the “Break Free From Plastic” Pledge, an initiative that was proposed by students. The pledge is part of the plan to reduce all waste from campus by 2025.