“Animal behavior is much more complex and sophisticated than we expect. Animals do not randomly band together, but follow predictions of natural selection.” - Ben Steele, professor and chair of the Natural Sciences Department
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NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 7, 2009 Philadelphia-based storyteller, narrator and singer Charlotte Blake Alston will bring traditional and contemporary African and African-American oral and cultural traditions to life through stories and songs in her upcoming solo performance at Colby-Sawyer College. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 20, 2008 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Education Maurissa Abecassis of Colby-Sawyer College as the 2008 New Hampshire Professor of the Year.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 17, 2008 - The Colby-Sawyer College Singers will present their annual holiday concert Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Center. Community members are invited to attend, and admission is free. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 31, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer will host Dr. Alberto Gonzalez, professor of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University, for presentations on the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential election and on the keys to successful intercultural communications. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 31, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host author Geoffrey Douglas, who will read from his new memoir, The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era, about his and his classmates' experiences at and after St. Paul's School, a prestigious private school in Concord, N.H. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 24, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will present The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, a documentary about the recently released Colombian presidential candidate. The documentary is part of the college's Human Rights and Social Justice Film Series. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 14, 2008 - The Colby-Sawyer College Department of Fine and Performing Arts presents its annual Art Faculty Exhibition from Oct. 30 to Dec. 4, featuring new works by art faculty in drawing, ceramics, graphic design, new media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
An opening reception for the show will be held Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Marian Graves Mugar Gallery at Sawyer Fine Arts Center.
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NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 14, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College presents For the Bible Tells Me So, a documentary about some Christians' conflict between reconciling their beliefs and their children's homosexuality, on Tues, Oct. 28, 2008 at 7 p.m.
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NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 13, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host Forever Locked, an exhibit displaying two moose with antlers locked, and a presentation by photographer Rick Mooseman Libbey on Saturday, Oct. 25. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 29, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host the documentary Operation Noah's Ark Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. A discussion with Professor Wouter van Hoven, director of the Center for Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and director of Ecolife Expeditions will follow the short film. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 26, 2008 The Colby-Sawyer Cultural Events Committee will host The Junkyard Ghost Revival Spoken Word Show, a lively group of the world's top performance poets, on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 26, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will induct three athletes and one entire team as new members into its 2008 Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 12. This year's honorees include Christopher Cabe '00, Stephanie A. Roy '02, Drew Drummond '02 and the 1993-1994 Equestrian Team. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 23, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will host a concert by the Georgia Guitar Quartet, an exciting new presence from the American South whose incredible range and spontaneity give their audiences a thrilling new way to experience chamber music.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 18, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will present the documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North, about the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, as part of its Human Rights and Social Justice Film Series on Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 12, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will introduce new academic programs and faculty members and its first Fulbright Scholar in Residence this fall. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H, Aug. 14, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host its third annual 5K Dash and Stroll, a non-competitive fun run/walk for people of all ages. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Aug. 14, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host journalist, author and media critic Jennifer L. Pozner's multi-media lecture, When Anchormen Attack: Gender, Race & Media in the 2008 Elections. Pozner seeks to expose how sexism and racial prejudice have dominated and distorted the media coverage in one of the most important elections in U.S. history. [ read more ]
New London, N.H., July 14, 2008 - WSCS, the non-commercial educational radio service of Colby-Sawyer College, has returned to the airwaves for the summer season. This summer WSCS is broadcasting a wide range of music and information including campus and community-related news and calendar events. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., June 4, 2008 More than 200 people from the 15 Kearsarge-Lake Sunapee towns gathered on the Colby-Sawyer College campus late in May for the tenth anniversary celebration of Adventures in Learning at Colby-Sawyer College. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., May 16, 2008 The 2008 Women Who Make a Difference Luncheon will feature Ann Page Stecker, professor of Humanities at Colby-Sawyer College, as its keynote speaker. The event, which benefits the Pediatric Programs of the Lake Sunapee Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, begins at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 28, in Wheeler Hall at Colby-Sawyer's Ware Campus Center. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., May 12, 2008 A Writing with Numbers Workshop at Colby-Sawyer College this week will feature a keynote address by Mya Poe, Ph. D., director of Technical Communication with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Writing and Humanistic Studies Program. The workshop on Thursday, May 15, and Friday, May 16, organized by the National Numeracy Network and Carleton College's Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning and Knowledge (Quirk) Initiative, will allow educators to develop and share assignments that engage students in writing with numbers across fields of study. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., May 9, 2008 Adventures in Learning, Colby-Sawyer College's lifelong education program, will hold a ten-year anniversary celebration on Thursday, May 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Wheeler Hall at the Ware Campus Center on the New London campus.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 21, 2008 - The Colby-Sawyer College Communication Studies Program will present its Spring Video Showcase, a biannual exhibition of student video productions, on Friday, May 2 at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theater. The event is free and the community is welcome to attend. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 21, 2008 - The Fine and Performing Arts Department at Colby-Sawyer College will host an opening reception for the Senior Art Exhibition on Friday, April 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery in Sawyer Center. The reception will include the presentation of scholarships and awards from the college. Refreshments will be served, and the free event is open to the public. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 21, 2008 - The Colby-Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Department will present its spring concert with the Colby-Sawyer Singers Thursday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theatre. Admission is free, and community members are welcome to attend. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 9, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host NEWDANCEWORKS2008, a performance of original, contemporary concert dance works that cross all genres. Choreographed by Colby-Sawyer students and faculty members, the event will also feature the filmmaking, music and sculpture of three guest artists. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 8, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host the 12th annual Northeast Consortium on Quantitative Literacy (NECQL), an event for educators to explore strategies and practices for strengthening students' quantitative literacy skills. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., April 7, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host a Sustainability Series featuring ecologists and academicians Tom Wessels of Antioch University/New England and Chris Uhl of Pennsylvania State University. The events are part of the college's efforts to become a leading institution in applying sustainable practices and to communicate ways for individuals and communities to live sustainably and reduce their ecological footprint. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 27, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host Dr. William F. Schulz, senior fellow for the Center for American Progress and former executive director of Amnesty International USA, for a discussion of "Restoring American Credibility: Human Rights in the Post-9/11 Era." [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 26, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will present its spring Books Sandwiched In discussion and lectures series in April with events featuring Scottish poetry, the best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place by New Hampshire author Grace Metalious, and the state's extensive network of volunteers. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 26, 2008 - The Colby-Sawyer College Fine and Performing Arts will present its spring theatre production The Servant of Two Masters, a play based on the 300-year-old classic play of the Italian Commedia dell'arte (comedy of art) theater. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 21, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer's Fine Arts Department will host The Gladys Greenbaum Meyers Juried Student Art Exhibition featuring students' recent work in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking and graphic design. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 18, 2008 - The Departments of Exercise and Sport Sciences at Colby-Sawyer College will host a symposium on legal issues in sport and exercise on March 31 in New London. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 12, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host the annual New Hampshire Clothesline Project, a visual display that bears witness to domestic and sexual violence in our society. The project seeks to educate people about violence, to mourn those who have died as a result of this violence, and to honor victims' courage and their struggle to survive and to heal. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., March 6, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will present a performance by New Hampshire-based pianist Jayne Kelly, a musician acclaimed for her virtuosity and sensitivity. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Feb. 25, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will host a student-directed production of The Gender Agenda, a play that explores discrimination based on gender, race, age and religion. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Feb. 14, 2008 As part of its Human Rights & Social Justice Film Series, Colby-Sawyer College will host The Devil Came on Horseback, a film about the Darfur tragedy; Everything's Cool, a rousing call to action on global warming, and White Light/Black Rain, highlighting the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings of World War II and the growing threat of nuclear weapons today. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Feb. 7, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will host a performance by Irish-American singer and songwriter Cathie Ryan. The performance will take place on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theatre. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Feb. 4, 2008 Colby-Sawyer College will host a performance by a New Hampshire band that makes rollicking music with trash. Their junk rock shows are spectacles of powerful percussion, banged out with trash cans, jackhammers and chain saws. The performance will take place at 8 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 7.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 31, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host a viewing of Including Samuel, an award-winning documentary about the educational and social inclusion of children and young adults with disabilities. The film's director and producer, Concord Monitor photojournalist Dan Habib, will answer questions following the film.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 22, 2008 - The Humanities Department at Colby-Sawyer College will host a reading by author Michael Lowenthal as part of its Word by Word Series. Lowenthal is the author of three novels and his non-fiction work has appeared in major publications.[ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 18, 2008 - A new exhibition at Colby-Sawyer College in February will explore the perspectives of four womenLinda Ost, Margaret Cawley, Pamela Pecchio and Adrienne Campbell in an exhibition of their black-and-white photography. The show features a broad range of subject matter and artistic processes, from photograms of people and nature to mixed media installations and travel photography. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 17, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host a performance by Chinese choreographer and dancer Yu Wei, whose collection of dances are inspired by the synergy between dance, poetry, and music that flourished in the Tang dynasty more than 1,200 years ago. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Jan. 15, 2008 - Colby-Sawyer College will host international peace worker Arthur Romano in a celebration of the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Dec. 11, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host a town-hall session for Democratic presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Dec. 6, 2007 The Student Democrats Association, Peace and Justice Club and other student organizations will host a convention of representatives from the 2008 presidential campaigns at Colby-Sawyer College. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 29, 2007 The Colby-Sawyer Communication Studies Program will present a screening of videos produced by students in its Video I and II courses. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 29, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will show the film No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq on Monday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in Wheeler Hall of the Ware Campus Center. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 28, 2007 The Colby-Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Department will present its holiday concert with the Colby-Sawyer Singers Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theatre. Admission is free, and community members are welcome to attend. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 21, 2007 In its ongoing series of political events leading up to the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, Colby-Sawyer College will host Craig and Mary Romney Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 10 a.m. Community members are invited to attend and admission is free. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 21, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host a performance by Mizero, a talented troupe of Rwandan orphans who carry an unforgettable message of hope and joy through song, dance and drumming, on Monday, Nov. 26 at 5:30 p.m. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 20, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host A Jazz Holiday with the Eric Mintel Quartet, featuring the music of composer Vince Guaraldi featured in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 15, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will present the environmental documentary Manufactured Landscapes", a visual journey through the impact of industrialization on China, as part of its Human Rights and Social Justice Film series. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 9, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host a reception for alumna Barbara Richardson '69, First Lady of New Mexico and wife of Governor Bill Richardson, a 2008 Democratic presidential candidate. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 7, 2007 The Colby-Sawyer College Humanities Department will present a reading by Mary Childers, author of Welfare Brat, a memoir of her struggle with growing up during the 1960s in a Bronx neighborhood ravaged by poverty. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Nov. 7, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host a presentation by Rebecca Shafir, author of the award-winning and best-selling book The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H. - Nov. 2, 2007 - As a dancer and singer, Yazzie has performed throughout North America as well as South America and Europe and consistently takes top honors at American Indian powwows throughout the United States and Canada. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H. - Oct. 30, 2007 - The Colby-Sawyer Fine and Performing Arts Department will host 'Art Teaching Art: Practicing Art, Enriching Education,' an exhibition featuring a selection of works by art educators from high schools throughout New England. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 30, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host lawyer Janet P. Judge as she presents 'MySpace & Facebook: What You Need To Know' on Sunday, Nov., 11 at 7 p.m. in the Ware Campus Center. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 17, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will screen Love and Marriage, a documentary about same sex marriage, followed by a question-and-answer session with director Robert Wagner and editor Nick Martin. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 12, 2007 A new exhibition at Colby-Sawyer College will feature the illustrations and advertisements of Robert Childress, best known for his contributions to the Dick and Jane reading primers used in American schools from the 1930s though the 1960s. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 10, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College's Humanities Department will present a reading by creative non-fiction writer Jane Brox as part of its Word by Word series. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 8, 2007 - The Colby-Sawyer College Fine and Performing Arts Department will present You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical based on the newspaper comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, as its fall theater production. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 2, 2007 - Richard E. Lapchick, an internationally recognized expert on sports issues, is a human rights activist and advocate for racial equality who has been described as the racial conscience of sport. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 2, 2007 - Colby-Sawyer College will host a performance by Eco-Tones, a musical group focused on entertaining while educating their audiences about how to become better stewards of the earth. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Oct. 1, 2007 - New Hampshire resident Ben Kilham has confounded the experts by taking in abandoned bear cubs, successfully raising them and returning them to the wild. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 25, 2007 - Colby-Sawyer College welcomed 381 new students to campus this fall, the largest incoming class in recorded history. The students come from 18 states and five countries, with 35 percent from New Hampshire and 91 percent from New England. [ read more ]
Better-informed electorate is goal of free educational event
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 25, 2007 In anticipation of the upcoming New Hampshire presidential primary, Adventures in Learning is hosting a special educational forum to explore the impact of the foreshortened primary schedule on New Hampshire's pivotal role in the process, and to discuss the candidates' campaign strategies and the thinking behind what they say and do. [ read more ]
Opening Reception on Friday, Sept. 28
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 21, 2007 The Colby-Sawyer College Department of Fine and Performing Arts will host a major art exhibition, a retrospective of 30 years of work by painter John Bott this fall. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 21, 2007 A four-year scholarship program, the Grace Hanlon Achievement Award, seeks to help academically motivated Kearsarge Regional High School students in realizing their dreams of attending college. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Sept. 17, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host two political events related to the 2008 national elections, a visit from Elizabeth Edwards on Saturday, Sept. 22, and a Meet the 2008 Democratic Candidates event on Sunday, Sept. 23. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., Aug. 27, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College's newest safety officer, Cally White, has successfully completed the 2007 New Hampshire Campus Safety Academy. White was also the recipient of the NHCSA Director's Award. [ read more ]
College Joins Growing List of Higher Education Leaders To Fight Global Warming
NEW LONDON, N.H., Aug. 13, 2007 Colby-Sawyer President Thomas C. Galligan Jr. has committed to reducing and eventually eliminating the college's global warming emissions, and accelerating educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., July 26, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will host its second annual 5k Dash and Stroll, a non-competitive fun run/walk for people of all ages. President Thomas C. Galligan Jr., an avid runner who launched the event in his first year at Colby-Sawyer, invites college and community members for the event on Saturday, Sept. 15. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., July 20, 2007 John H. Callewaert, associate professor and director of the Institute for Community and Environment at Colby-Sawyer College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant that will send him to Vietnam National University in Hanoi for six months of research and teaching in 2008. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., July 20, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College has announced the new recipients of two established professorships, Professor of Social Sciences and Education Randy Hanson as the new David H. Winton Endowed Chair, and Professor of Business Administration Leon-C. Malan as the new M. Roy London Endowed Chair.
The college has also established the Gibney Distinguished Professorship, to which Humanities Professor Patrick Anderson has been appointed. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., July 19, 2007 Adventures in Learning, the lifelong learning program established a decade ago at Colby-Sawyer College, will mark its Tenth Anniversary with a year-long community celebration that includes two free public presentations, a series of special courses and a community-wide reception. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., July 19, 2007 The complaint was dismissed by a California District Court, reversed by the Ninth Circuit Court, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and dismissed there on a technicality. The issue is whether the Under God language should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance, and now the debate will come to Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., May 22, 2007 Colby-Sawyer College will welcome a new academic dean and a new chair of the Nursing Department, as well as accomplished faculty members in the Exercise and Sports Sciences, Fine and Performing Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Nursing, and Social Sciences and Education Departments. [ read more ]
NEW LONDON, N.H., May 1, 2007 Thomas C. Galligan Jr., the new president of Colby-Sawyer College, will be the keynote speaker at the eighth annual meeting of Adventures in Learning, the lifelong learning program sponsored by the college. The subject of President Galligan's talk will be So, what is a major? The past, present and future of the undergraduate major. [ read more ]
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