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The Toll of Tragedy: Newsrooms Under Stress, Communities Under Attack

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Journalists hold deep commitments to serve their communities, even during the darkest moments. In Annapolis, Md., this meant giving their lives when their newsroom was attacked. In Pittsburgh, journalists covering the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting dealt with their trauma as well as that of Pittsburgh as it was their neighbors and friends who were […]

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The Diversity Bargain

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Natasha Warikoo is an expert on racial and ethnic inequality in education. Her most recent book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities, illuminates how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. The book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related […]

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Education and Poverty: The High Cost of Attaining Equity

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

The Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs is hosting guest speaker Roger Schulman, President and CEO of Fund for Educational Excellence on March 4th for a 7 pm lecture in Roberts, Robins room on Colby campus. Mr. Schulman who has over 20 years of experience in urban education works closely with a wide variety of district, […]

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Getting There from Here: The Role of Implementation Research in Advancing Global Nutrition Agendas

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Andrea Warren, research associate in the Environmental Studies Program at Colby, will discuss the role of implementation research in advancing global nutrition agendas. For the past decade, the goal of improving population-level nutritional status by way of targeting maternal and child nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life has received unprecedented attention in low- and middle-income […]

The Prague Spring Fifty Years On: Meaning, Legacy, Future Prospects

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

An International Conference of Scholars What:  A conference probing the legacy of the Prague Spring of 1968, fleshing out its lessons for important domestic and international issues today, and producing a volume of essays. When:  September 20-21, 2018 Where:  The Smith and Robins Rooms of the Roberts Building, Ostrove Auditorium and the Atrium of the Diamond […]

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Where Did Environmental Studies Majors Spend The Summer?

Robins Room, Roberts Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Students who undertook summer internships will share their experiences. This is a great opportunity for sophomores and juniors to get ideas of places to consider applying for an Environmental Studies-funded internship. A casual lunch from 11:30-noon followed by quick-fire presentations beginning promptly at noon. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.

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