Specialized Resources
Celebrating 100 years of the study of botany at Conn, which offers students opportunities to consider its role in shaping the future of natural environments and human society.
Campus EventsThis student-curated exhibit explores the range of modern Chinese landscape painting using works from the Chu-Griffis Collection of Asian Art.
Arts & CultureNew Student Orientation for first-year and transfer students begins with Arrival Day on Thursday, August 23. Student leaders and faculty members will help you get acquainted with the organizations, traditions and activities of Connecticut College and prepare for an excellent first semester.
Student ProgramsCelebrating 100 years of the study of botany at Conn, which offers students opportunities to consider its role in shaping the future of natural environments and human society.
Campus EventsThe College will celebrate the formal opening of the academic year, welcome new students to the College and recognize the new senior class on Tempel Green.
Campus EventsAreview article published in the journal Ecological Engineering, which Anne Bernhard co-authored with Hidetoshi Urakawa. The article is aimed at ecological engineers and wetland resource managers who are interested in learning more about the use of microbes as indicators of the ecological health of wetland ecosystems, with an emphasis how new sequence technology can advance our understanding of these critical ecosystems.
PublicationThe Classics Department is pleased to announce that Modern Arabic Poetry: Revolution and Conflict, by Waed Athamneh, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, was published in March, 2017, by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Publication"The Research Experience: Planning, Conducting, and Reporting Research" has been published by Sage. Devlin is The May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor of Psychology.
PublicationBirds and plants have been studied intensively in the Bolleswood Natural Area of the Arboretum since 1952. This is one of the few places in the world where both plants and birds have been monitored using standardized methods for such a long period, providing an opportunity to analyze how changes in vegetation affect the abundance of particular species of birds.In a recent article in Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Mary Buchanan (’14), Robert Askins (Katharine Blunt Professor of Biology) and Chad Jones (Associate Professor of Botany) analyzed the long-term patterns of change in the Bolleswood forest, describing how changes in bird populations may be driven by a complex interplay of plant species composition, the vertical structure of the forest, and the amount of forest cover in the region around the study area. The article can be downloaded from BioOne on the Connecticut College web site. Here is the citation:Buchanan, M.L., R.A. Askins, and C.C. Jones. 2016. Response of bird populations to long-term changes in local vegetation and regional forest cover. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128: 704-718.
PublicationDeborah MacDonnell, director of public relations, has been named to the board of directors of the Rotary Club of New London.
AppointmentNoel Nieves, supervisor of custodial services, has been selected to represent Connecticut College as a participant in the Eastern Connecticut Chamber Leadership Program.
AppointmentDavid Canton, associate professor of history, has been named director of the Africana Studies program.
AppointmentAndrea Baldwin, visiting assistant professor in gender and women's studies, has been named assistant director of the Africana Studies program.
AppointmentCatherine Benoît, Professor of Anthropology, was invited to present a talk at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly 18-22 September 2017. Based on her consultation work over the summer for the United Nations, her talk addressed access to reproductive health by the indigenous Baka women of the Republic of Congo. The panel included Natalia Kanem, the Executive Director of UNFPA and Hanneke Knussen, the Chief of Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch at the UN headquarters.
LectureProfessor Waed Athamneh delivered an invited talk at The Library of Congress titled "Never Tell an Arab Poet Not to Write" on Thursday, May 4. The talk delved into the impact and role of modern Arabic poetry under authoritarian regimes. Athamneh read poetry by four major modern Arab poets: Nizar Qabbani, Ahmad abd al-Muti Hijazi, Muzaffar al-Nawwab and Fatma Kandil. Followed by a book signing, the talk was videotaped and will be available on The Library of Congress website.
LectureAn OpEd in TRT World by Waed Athamneh, assistant professor of Arabic Studies in the department of Classics, on how ISIS uses poetry as a recruitment tool, an ideological weapon.
PaperPaper delivered at the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Rennes 2, France, 2016.
PaperCurated and installed by Professor Christopher Steiner, in collaboration with students in AHI 457: Museum Training, this exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum brings together a collection of over 400 vernacular photo portraits taken at carnivals, fairs, and arcades. The exhibit explores issues of memory, self-representation, and the construction of identity in early American photography.
ExhibitionIn Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum brings together ten artists including Associate Professor of Art Ted Hendrickson. The site of the Florence Griswold Museum has been a place of creative inspiration to artists for over a century. This select group of photographers was asked to focus their lenses and imagination on the Museum and create work that reacts to the historic site’s landscape, collections, and story. With a wry sense of humor and playing off his interest in the intersections between time and place, Hendrickson surveys the evolution of the museum’s landscape over the course of a year for his Lawn Series. These images and his others demonstrate changes not only in the passage of the seasons, but also the way visitors, and even mice, contemplate, occupy, and modify the landscape. The exhibit runs from October 1, 2016, through January 29, 2017.
ExhibitionProfessor Ross Morin will present his Connecticut film premiere of "A Wheel out of Kilter" on September 9.
ExhibitionChorosynthesis Singers (Wendy Moy & Jeremiah Selvey, co-artistic directors) has been selected as a finalist in the professional choral division of The American Prize, a national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. The American Prize is a series of non-profit national competitions in the performing arts providing cash awards, professional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition for the best recorded performances by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States at the professional, college/university, church, community and secondary school levels. Administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded annually.
AwardWendy Moy, is a 3rd-place winner in The American Prize in Choral Conducting (professional division.)The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit national competitions in the performing arts providing cash awards, professional adjudication and regional, national and international recognition for the best recorded performances by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States at the professional, college/university, church, community and secondary school levels. Administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Danbury, Connecticut, The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded annually.
AwardThe American Prize is honored to announce the winners and runners-up of The American Prize in Conducting—chorus—in the professional, community and school divisions, 2016-17. Jeremiah Selvey, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities, won first prize for conducting in the professional choir division for his work with Chorosynthesis Singers. He is honored to be considered among some of the finest conductors in the country.
AwardPeter Siver, Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany , received a grant award to support travel to three locations, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Virgin Valley fossil locality in Nevada, and the Battle Formation in Alberta, Canada, to collect specimens related to reconstruction of ancient environments and climates.
Award"Indecent," a play choreographed by David Dorfman, professor of dance and chair of the dance department, is the topic of a New York Times feature. Two Tony-winning producers are hoping to bring the play to Broadway.
OtherSean Martin, director of financial aid, attended the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) in Washington, D.C., in July.
OtherB. Afeni McNeely Cobham, associate dean of institutional equity and inclusion, and Liz Eames, associate director of human resources, presented Civil Treatment Training to College supervisors in June. The training will be offered again in 2016-17.
OtherDarcie Folsom, director of sexual violence prevention and advocacy, was invited to present Green Dot training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Mary's College of California.
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