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    Artist Nancy Andrews of Mount Desert wins prominent fellowship

    College of the Atlantic TA Cox Chair in Studio Arts Nancy Andrews is the winner of the Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship in the Visual Arts, netting a $25,000 award and an exhibit at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Press Herald reports.

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    COA student is an Arctic Explorer winner

    Olivia Paruk ’24 is part of the winning team of the Arctic Opportunity Explorers program, an international collaboration to empower young people to become changemakers in the Arctic through sustainable entrepreneurship. The program is a collaboration between Copenhagen-based climate group Sustainia, five Scandinavian universities, and College of the Atlantic.

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    Chasing carbon unicorns: the deception of carbon markets and “net zero”

    FOEI writes about a new report led by College of the Atlantic professor of global environmental politics Doreen Stabinsky examines the science behind “net zero” claims, how they are used to obscure climate inaction, and the role of various actors in promoting these ineffective schemes.

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    Minke whale skeleton from Maine finds new home in the Arizona desert

    News Center Maine 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.

  • 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.