Mount Desert Island’s volcanic history may well be in the past, but a new mountain just popped up last summer on the COA campus. The accidental result of building construction, the “mountain” quickly became a favorite spot on campus, both as a classroom and recreation area.
College of the Atlantic is pleased to welcome their newest faculty member, Mount Desert Island native Susan Letcher. Letcher has been named a professor of plant sciences, and will begin working at the school in September 2017.
COA researchers respond with elation after one of the birds they have been tracking marks a record, 1,700-mile journey along the Atlantic coast.
Professor Nishanta “Nishi” Rajakaruna’s Edible Botany class took a field trip to visit herbalist Deb Soule, at Avena Botanicals in Rockport, Maine. It was a great opportunity to see botanical knowledge in action and to learn about medicinal plants.