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Phinn Onens '13 and Mollie Bedick '13 Celebrate After commencement
Meaghan Lyon '16 Bands a gull chick on Great Duck Island
JUNE
JULY
Graduation speaker Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, now an honorary human ecologist, tells COA graduates to "partner hard."
Alumni artists David Vickery '89 and Blakeney Sanford '02 open the summer season with a joint exhibit at the Ethel H. Blum Gallery.
President Darron Collins '92 gives Conway College's commencement speech.
Anneke Hart '16 finds that gulls on Mount Desert Rock are much tamer than those on Great Duck Island. Meanwhile, Tyler Freitas '16, Meaghan Lyon '16, Ariana Rambach '16, and Kate Shlepr '13 monitor the gulls and other birds of GDI, and Jane Strader '16 examines the impact of sea level rise on Acadia's nesting seabirds.
Hatchery students Leland DeWalt '14, Stevie DuFrense '14, Cayla Moore '13, and Robin Owings '13 present their ventures at Bar Harbor's Artemis Gallery, owned by Deirdre Swords and trustee Cody van Heerden, MPhil '15.
A Record 147 Community Members Plunge in for the Bar Island Swim
Alyssa Seemann '16 sings Mozart's "O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn!" in the Community Talent Show
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
COA opens with the largest entering class ever: 105 first-years and 26 transfers, with 17 new internationals, and two MPhils.
Some 200 friends, family, and alumni descend on COA for lectures, activities, and reuniting during Family & Alumni Weekend.
The College Database's 50 Colleges Committed to Saving the Planet ranks COA as #9, the first of the colleges (not universities) on the list. Again, COA makes US News & World Report's top 100 colleges, rating #12 for best value, and #6 for percentage of international students.
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More than 20 students talk about their science, education, and policy research during COA's third Student Science Symposium. Bugs are a delicacy at the annual Nature of Halloween celebration at the Dorr Museum.
Participants in COA's Rivers: A Wilderness Odyssey
AUGUST In July and August, 30 high school students receive college credit by attending one of COA's three Summer Field Institutes: Rivers: A Wilderness Odyssey, Farm to Fork, and Islands Through Time. Princeton Review rates COA a 98 out of 99 in academics, listing us as #7 for "professors get high marks" and "best campus food," #8 for "most liberal students," and in the top 20 for "best quality of life," "great financial aid," "their students love these colleges," and "most accessible professors."
The Dorr Museum opens "300+ Objects to Describe Human Ecology"
november Having studied the issues throughout the term, 13 students from eight nations, along with faculty member Doreen Stabinsky head to Warsaw, Poland, for the 19th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Solar panels — 195 of them — are installed on the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village roofs and the Peggy Rockefeller Farms; an additional 6% of COA's annual electricity needs now comes from the sun.
Check out more stories and photos at newsworthy.coa.edu