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Science, But Not Fiction: Colby researchers consider how extreme-ophiles survive and thrive in the world\u27s toughest places
Get PDFWe\u27re exploring how the cell makes the decision to do this, said Assistant Professor of Biology Ron Peck
The Elsie Mysteries: For a half-century, a painting of a cow was a secret honor for a Colby women
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Brilliant: A Gifted Leader And Academic, Marnay Avant is Ready to Inspire as a Professor of Color
Get PDFI think it is important to be a professor, especially a professor of color, because you get to inspire and shape the minds of so many people. -Marnay Avant \u271
Good Works: Stifling the Thai Sex Trade
Get PDFprevention while not as dramatic as raiding or rescuing, is a lot more effective -Bill Stauffer \u278
From One Hockey Dream to Another: Jack Burton takes the ice for Chicago Blackhawks farm team, the Indy Fuel
Get PDFAt Colby, you\u27ve got a couple hundred fans, some of whom you are friends and some who know you by name from class, Burton said. This is different. There\u27s more pressure. It makes your heart beat a little faster
A Bold Move-With Big Possibilities, Lee Glazer leaves the Smithsonian for Lunder Institute at Colby
Get PDFThis is a time in history when people are questioning the value of a liberal arts education and thinking in material terms about the role of higher education, To me, [David Greene\u27s] investment in the arts is no to be overlooked. -Lee Glazer, founding director, Lunder Institute for American Ar
The Intersections of Divorce, Poverty, and Domestic Abuse
No full textIn June 2019, Maine passed the Act to Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse (APRSEA), which provides new ways for supporting victims and survivors of domestic abuse through an understanding of and restitution for economic abuse, a type of abuse which 99% of domestic abuse survivors have experienced. To examine the impact of economic abuse, my senior honors thesis engages in a mixed methods approach to study the intersections of divorce, poverty, and domestic abuse through an analysis of secondary sources and two interviews. My thesis begins with proving the gendered economic effects of divorce in the context of the history of marriage and feminist theory and moves on to examine family law through the lens of feminist legal theory to determine the roots of inequality after divorce. I specifically examine the issue of child custody, and then apply these knowledges to examine how family courts deal with domestic abuse. Finally, I study economic abuse in the state of Maine using the Report on the Impact of Economic Abuse on Survivors of Domestic Violence in Maine, which was created and published by the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, and examine the passage and effects of the Act to Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse. This thesis closes with a series of recommendations to lessen the economic inequality of divorce, increase equality in family court, and better support survivors of domestic and economic abuse. Domestic and economic abuse are particularly salient issues in the current climate of COVID-19, as job losses increase economic insecurity and domestic abuse victims are made to isolate with their abusers