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Minke whale skeleton from Maine finds new home in the Arizona desert [News Center]

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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Millard Dority at COA: 51 years and counting [Islander]

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.
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COA opens winter term with baseline testing [Islander]

After launching the trimester with COVID-19 testing and quarantines, the COA community is all hands on deck toward creating a successful, safe learning environment this winter.

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Ornithology scholarship winner will study petrels on Great Duck Island

Budding natural historian Eleanor Gnam ’23 is the recipient of the 2021 Sal Rooney Scholarship from the Downeast Chapter of the Maine Audubon Society. She will spend the summer researching Leach’s storm petrels at the College of the Atlantic Alice Eno Field Research Station.
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Move Free moves forward!

Two College of the Atlantic students are a step closer to winning $10,000 after successfully pitching Move Free, their sustainable, social apparel business, on the first round of Greenlight Maine Collegiate Edition, airing on Maine Public. Watch the episode here!
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Founding faculty member Bill Carpenter to publish third novel

“Silence,” the new book from College of the Atlantic professor emeritus and founding faculty member Bill Carpenter, examines the bitter legacy of 9/11 through the experiences of a young Iraq war veteran returning home to Maine. “Carpenter has a reputation for shining an unvarnished light of truth into some darker subjects, and ‘Silence’ is his most ambitious endeavor yet.”

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The Gulf of Maine is warming, and its whales are disappearing [NPR]

Whales face a perilous situation as rapidly rising water temperatures affect their food sources, habitats, and migration patterns, College of the Atlantic Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences Dr. Sean Todd tells National Public Radio as part of their series, From Miami To Maine: Adapting To a Changing Climate.
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A college in Maine that tackles climate change, one class at a time [New York Times]

As universities and other institutions grapple with ways to fight climate change, College of the Atlantic is nudging its students to reach outside the school’s boundaries and start changing the real world.

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