The history of Blacks in Maine is very much a story about Whiteness: its endurance, its entitlement, the ultimate disadvantage of its oneness. In 1790, Maine was 98 percent white. While the rest...
THE QUESTION: How was an entire country convinced that deporting people based on their religion, sexual orientation, political beliefs, or physical ability was acceptable or even necessary? TH...
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1524-my-summer-with-grossmutter
Since 2005, College of the Atlantic students have attended the annual Conference of Parties, or COPs, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the UNFCCC. Soon COA students w...
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1415-in-their-own-words-juan-pablo-hoffmaister-07
Kathleen—Kate—Donohoe ('91) has strong childhood memories of passing through the New Jersey Meadowlands, a region rife with stories about the dumping of illegal chemicals and Mafia vic...
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1413-elutriate-the-work-of-kathleen-donohoe-91
Matt Maiorana '11 went to his first UN negotiation as a second-year in 2007. He's since attended multiple UN meetings, but after that first meeting he helped create COA's environmental justice gr...
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1414-in-their-own-words-matt-maiorana-11-organizer
Fire in the field and the birth of fire. Dry rivers and thirsty soil. The strong wind, steady as a blast furnace, and windmills drawing deep. This is the remembered earth that is lodged within he...
As deputy chief of interpretation at Acadia National Park, Christie Denzel Anastasia '92, seeks to ensure that every visitor intersecting with the park has the best experience possible. What thi...
Acadia's bats are suffering from the often deadly fungus known as white-nose syndrome. Erickson Smith '15 joined a team of scientists surveying and measuring the bats in hopes of protecting them...
Helena Shilomboleni '09 is completing her PhD in the social and ecological sustainability of food systems at Canada's University of Waterloo, examining food security in Mozambique through two lo...
Maine resident Marjolaine Whittlesey '05 is the Teaching Artist Associate at The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center for students ages six to eighteen in Portland, Maine, which recently rec...
Edward Stern '03 has dipped his feet into almost every aspect of the ocean fisheries world: commercial fishing, policy, government, science, technology, even boatbuilding. He currently works for...
Lisa Bjerke '13, MPhil '16 is transforming how COA thinks about what and how we dispose. Waste, she says, is a verb; not a noun.
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1150-waste-is-a-verb-the-odyssey-of-lisa-bjerke-13
Aaron Lewis '05 takes down-home American music across the ocean, with his Corn Potato String Band. Why the name? "We're the ears and eyes of America."
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/1151-the-ears-and-eyes-of-american-music
Alex Borowicz '14, Antarctic field guide and PhD student in ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, New York, speaks about his love of the creatures and vistas of the South Pole.
Hiyasmin Saturay '15, creator of the film Pangandoy: The Manobo fight for land, education and their future on the struggles of a Philippine indigenous group, speaks about her commitment to her h...
Audubon guide Gabriel Willow '00 offers New Yorkers and visitors a sense of the natural wonders of Manhattan and its islands.
Tawanda is devoted to exploring the currents that flow beneath our lives, the ones that bind us as humans. Stories and myths — whether from science, contemporary theory, or ancient mystics —...
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/359-creativity-in-motion-tawanda-chabikwa-07
Ten women stand tight in a pack on an indoor track. They are ready for battle. This is roller derby, contact sport on skates.
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/350-leaders-of-the-track-the-human-ecology-of-blocking
Through an integrated, expeditionary curriculum, weekly outings, and town meeting-style gatherings, The Community School has found new ways to cultivate a sense of self and of place.
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/349-a-sense-of-self-and-place-the-community-school
Friday, May 8 at 4:10 in the McCormick Lecture Hall, we will welcome Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, School of Biology and Ecology, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/351-jacquelyn-gill-05-next-speaker-in-coas-climate
Human rights group sues former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard and 14 former military officers for role in killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/298-coa-trustee-jay-mcnally-84-aids-probe-of-1989
Timoney '78 wins a top science writing award in Canada for The Peace-Athabasca Delta
https://www.coa.edu/live/news/320-coa-alum-authors-award-winning-ecology-book-in