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14 Boots On the Ground Now 40, Colby’s Environmental Studies Program is growing exponentially, equipping students to tackle real-world problems.
DEPARTMENTS 02/Colby Online 03/From the Editor 04/Letters Colby News 07/Museum Expansion Underway 08/Familiar Voice Wins Lovejoy 08/Access Granted 09/A Fresh Start-up 09/The Culture of Air 10/Oak Fellow’s Caste Role 10/Class Ring Discovered 11/Alums Create Research, Internship Fund President’s report 12/On Steve Jobs and the liberal arts
Ink In His Veins New York Daily News Editor in Chief Kevin Convey ’77 is bullish on tabloid newspapers—print and online.
From the Hill
28/Q&A with cartoonist Lincoln Peirce ’85, creator of Big Nate 30/Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak ’88, philosophy professor by day, turns wood into emotion 32/Food COOT has students cooking—and eating—with new appreciation 34/With Projects for Peace grant, Sulaiman Nasseri ’12 gives Afghan women a future 36/Fiction, history, the future, and the past, by Willard Wyman ’56, Gerry Boyle ’78, Drew Magary ’98, Amalie Gosine Howard ’97, Don Snyder ’72, Robert Rogers ’65
Alumni at Large 40/Class Notes 65/Obituaries Alumni Profiles 45/Grayce Studley ’61 50/Stephen Orlov ’71 61/Bianca Belcher ’03 The Last Page 68/Julie Kafka ’12 on the small miracle that is growing zucchini on the Hill
39/Colorado recruiters see value in Colby
On the Cover Research Assistant William Supple IV ’12 collects water as part of a study of the shallow waters of Great Pond. Supple and five other students worked this summer with professors Russell Cole, Catherine Bevier, and Herbert Wilson to investigate the impacts of shoreland development on the lake’s shallow-water ecosystem.
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