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COA Names Alumnus President, 6/15/11
Southeast Green
Editor's note: We are sorry to see Darron Collins leave Atlanta. We know he will be a great influence at COA.
College of the Atlantic has named Darron Collins of the World Wildlife Fund as the school's next president. Collins, a 1992 graduate of the college, will be COA's first alumnus to hold that position. Read more >>
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Bangor Daily News
Boston Globe

College of the Atlantic Student Turns Food Waste into Energy, 06/01/2011
MPBN
Ten years ago sustainability-themed business courses weren't a part of the curricula at many universities and colleges in the U.S. But now, green MBAs and coursework in sustainable business are among the fastest-growing programs in undergraduate and graduate education. Here in Maine, some of the most innovative work and research in the field is taking place at the so-called Sustainable Business Hatchery at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Jay Field paid a visit. Read more>>

Mona Lisa Comes to Life in Contrapposto, 5/20/11
Bangor Daily News
A strong salty breeze off the Atlantic entered the classroom at College of the Atlantic through an open door as Alicia Hynes rose from her seat to adjust the stance of Napoleon Bonaparte. The actor followed her direction, soaking in her expertise during rehearsal. After all, Hynes did write the play; she’s directing it; she’s even acting in it.  Read more>>

Expedition Full of Surprises for College of the Atlantic Senior, 5/19/11
Bangor Daily News
When Becca began a study of historic native water routes of the Penobscot and Machias watershed  — her senior project for College of the Atlantic — she didn’t realize where it would lead.  Read more>>

College of the Atlantic Senior Focuses on Acts of Kindness, 5/18/11
Bangor Daily News
A man gives a woman a jacket, a woman smiles at strangers, a student is handed cab fare home, a little boy speaks about how he refrained from laughing at a friend. The stories surrounding these and other individual acts of kindness are being chronicled in "The Kindness Project" an online audio series that Brooke Welty, a College of the Atlantic senior, has created to fulfill the final project for her college degree.  Read more>

An Education in Green Living, March 2011
Down East
Environmental Studies 2.0
Maine has been a pioneer in environmental studies since the late 1960s; indeed, Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic (COA) was founded in 1969 with a single major in “human ecology” . . .

If you want to understand how environmental education is evolving, consider COA's Sustainable Business Program - the first such program in the Northeast — which attracts students who want "to use business to change the world," says the program’s founder and director, Professor Jay Friedlander. Read more>>

College of the Atlantic Gets $1 Million Gift, 1/14/11
Boston Globe
The College of the Atlantic announced Friday that the offering from 1984 graduate Jay McNally is the largest gift the college has received from a former student. Read more>>

One-course town with a teaching model the world wants to copy 10/24/10
Times Higher Education
College of the Atlantic focuses on human ecology and lets students lead the way. Jon Marcus reports Read more>

STUDENTS in the News

COA to rock Hamlet this weekend 11/11/10
Bangor Daily News
When Alicia Hynes thinks about directing Shakespeare, she thinks about things other than traditional settings with Elizabethan costumes and sets. The College of the Atlantic senior thinks about Bollywood, shadow puppets and video projections, as in the case of the two other Bard plays she’s co-directed at COA with college alum Dan Mahler, The Tempest and Macbeth.  Read more>>

College of the Atlantic Halloween event features insect cuisine 10/24/10
Bangor Daily News
Sometimes the creepy-crawlies can be crispy, if you can bring yourself to bite a bug.  Some students at COA were brave enough to do so.  Read more>

Audience with Prince Charles, 6/24/10
Poteau Daily News
Natalie Barnett (right), granddaughter of Dottie Tucker of Poteau, met with England's Prince Charles while studying the ecology and historical economy of apples. Natalie is a student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and is studying abroad in England. Natalie is writing a blog while conducting her research. To find out more about the project go to nbarnett2.wordpress.com.Read more>>

Facades: a senior project written, directed, acted by Dan Mahler '10
Bangor Daily News, 5/15/10
"Dan Mahler came to College of the Atlantic as many students do. He felt stifled and uninspired by the traditional structure of most colleges and universities, yet he knew he was driven and capable, and eager to learn and grow. COA was the perfect place for him." Read more»

Wasilla student receives Goldwater award, 4/13/10
Anchorage Daily News
Wasilla student receives Goldwater award
Colony High School 2007 graduate Kaija Klauder of Wasilla recently received a Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.Read more»

Nafisa Mohammadi '10 on Maine Public Radio, 3/23/10
Maine College Student Wins Grant For Dump Site Clean-up Near Kabul, Afghanistan Home
Nafisa Mohammadi '10 received a Kathryn W. Davis Projects for Peace grant to clean up a dumpsite near her family home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Listen»

College senior gets traveling fellowship, 3/16/10
Worcester Telegram
COA senior Lauren Nutter has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. She will travel around the world on a mission she calls “Voices for the Future: Youth, Passion and Sustainable Change,” empowering youths between the ages of 15 and 24 to make a difference. Read more»

The Pulse Magazine, February 2010
Making a Difference Across the World
Lauren Nutter '10 of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is featured for her work organizing youth to stem climate change. Says Lauren, "By sharing resources and knowledge, I will continue to engage on the international level and empower more youth from around the world to have their voices heard here." Read more»

COA Student Delegate, December 2009
Most COA students are part of COA's Copenhagen delegation, but student Neil Oculi joins the St. Lucia prime minister on his nation's seven-person delegation. Read more»

After Juan Carlos Soriano '11 gave the Youth Statement to the UNFCCC plenary, articles about his powerful speech appeared across the web. Here's a sample:

Grist.org, 12/19/09
"There will be no decisions about us, without us"
COPENHAGEN—The anger in Juan Carlos Soriano’s voice was clear when he rose to a podium in the Bella Center Friday afternoon. And it was easy to understand why: the climate-treaty talks were (and still are at this writing) stuck between competing draft texts, none of which offer plans to keep global warming within safe scientific limits. Read more »

See Juan's interview on Tierramérica, December 2009 by the IPS Interpress Service.

El Comercio, 12/16/09
Cumbre del clima 2009: La juventud peruana se hace oír en Copenhagueby Erik Struyf Palacios
Copenhague-No forman parte de la delegación oficial peruana, pero su presencia en Copenhague, como los asuntos climáticos que aquí se discuten, podría rendir frutos en el mediano y largo plazo. Juan Carlos (23), Rosa (26) y Gino (19) son tres peruanos que forman parte de un grupo de 40 jóvenes latinoamericanos traídos a la capital danesa por una plataforma ambientalista. Read more about COA senior Juan Carlos Soriano in this article from the Lima, Peru daily, El Comercio»

Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 12/4/09
Loving the Earth: Locals heading to Denmark for climate conference
When world leaders meet at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week, two local residents will be there to witness what one UN official calls a “historic turning point” in world climate-change negotiations.
...Meanwhile, 21-year-old Lauren Nutter of Uxbridge is traveling with a delegation from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, hoping to give voice to the generation that will be most affected by decisions made regarding climate change. Read more»

Maine Public Radio, 12/01/09
Mainers Heading to Copenhagen to Lobby for Strong Climate Treaty
The Maine contingent to Copenhagen includes a college student, a member of the Maine Sierra Club, and a retired war veteran.
... Also traveling to Copenhagen is Brooke Welty, a Portland native and student at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. She'll be attending with 13 of her classmates, who've been preparing for the conference over the past year.
"There will be thousands of youth at the conference in Copenhagen who will be demanding a strong climate treaty," she says. "We will be meeting the first weekend as a Conference of the Youth, preparing statements, planning lobby visits with the senators that will be there, with negotiators." Listen»

Maine Public Radio, 11/26/09
COA Student Headed to Climate Change Summit
The December climate change conference in Copenhagen won't only feature heads of state and policy wonks. Students are also planning to go, Maine's College of the Atlantic is sending 13 students and two professors. The delegation includes third-year student Brooke Welty of Portland, who spoke with MPBN's Irwin Gratz. Listen»

Boston Globe, 11/20/09
COA students featured in Boston Globe article on New Englanders heading to Copenhagen for climate change talks:
"New England sending a crowd to climate talks"
"'Our future is being decided, our voices should be there,' said Uxbridge resident Lauren Nutter, 21, of College of the Atlantic. Nutter is also representing SustainUS, a youth-led sustainable development group." Read more»

St. Lucia Government Information Services, 7/13/09
Environmental project to stabilize river banks in Mabouya Valley
A major environmental project which will see the planting of over one thousand trees along the four major rivers in the Mabouya valley has commenced and is set to continue over the next few months.

One of the initiators of the programme Neil Oculi hails from the Dennery community. He says he has long been aware that the rivers in the Fond D'or watershed are experiencing environmental degradation and are in need of attention. Read more»

COA FACULTY & STAFF in the News

The Meaningful Art of an Octopus's Garden, 1/28/11
Bangor Daily News
"When I discovered Maine, I thought it was my Finland, with the fells, the mountains and the birch trees. All compressed on this island, it's like a pocket of Finland," said sculptor Melita Westerlund, who was born and raised in the city of Helsinki in southern Finland and came to Bar Harbor in 1983 with her family, intending to stay for a month. [Melita's show is currently at the college's Blum Gallery.] Read more>

Edward 'Ed' McCormick Blair: 1915-2010 12/30/10
Chicago Tribune
Edward "Ed" McCormick Blair was a longtime businessman who served on the boards of many companies and charities including College of the Atlantic.  Read more>

MDI Lab Biologists Study Callahan Mine, 12/8/10
Bangor Daily News
Could high concentrations of copper at the Callahan mine site have changed the DNA of fish in the adjacent waters of Goose Cove? Chris Peterson from College of the Atlantic is just one of the researchers. Read more>

Bill Carpenter on Maine's first Earth Day, 4/21/10
Portland Press Herald
Bill Carpenter, a founding faculty member of the College of Atlantic, was teaching literature at the University of Chicago. College campuses were in turmoil from the Vietnam War protests, and Carpenter was looking forward to joining the new college in Bar Harbor. Read more»

Nancy Andrews' film On a Phantom Limb reviewed, 4/20/10
Baltimore City Paper
Transmodern Festival 2010: Transmodern Films

...Mixing archival footage, fake archival footage, drawing, images of nature, and animation, the short tells the story of a woman who has a surgery that allows her to become a bird. While the piece is thematically connected to work of Guy Maddin, Andrews' incorporation of her own body and drawings into the film makes it much more intimate than Maddin's overwrought films. The whimsical, uplifting final act in Phantom Limb, in which the operation is complete and Andrews becomes a bird, pulls together not only the short, but the entire night's programming. Andrews reminds you that there's nothing wrong with hybridity, particularly if it allows you to see new possibilities for experimental moving images. Read the article»

David Hales featured in major expose of Carbon Offsets, 4/20/10
Christian Science Monitor
Buying carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming

David Hales, who has represented the US in international environmental negotiations and now is president of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, headed a 2008 effort of college presidents to draw up guidelines for offset purchases by colleges and universities. ... “The market is dominated by junk,” Mr. Hales says. At his own college, he set students to the project of picking offsets to counteract emissions, and they found the effort a quagmire. “It almost takes a full-time staff to determine exactly what you are getting...." Read more»

Bill Carpenter featured in "How a Poem Happens," 3/15/10
Brian Brodeur's blogspot features poets talking about their work, in this case COA faculty member Bill Carpenter speaks about the writing of his poem Rain. Read more»

Washington Post, 2/03/10
Planet Panel: It's time to pull the rope, not push it by David Hales, COA President
As long as the costs of carbon pollution are externalized—artificially kept out of free market dynamics—in the US market, we will be trying to strengthen our security and create jobs with two hands tied behind our backs. It is as simple as the difference between pulling a rope and trying to push one. Read more»

ALUMNI in the News

Nature's Pharmacy Grows at Garden in the Woods 5/24/11
The MetroWest Daily News
If General Ulysses S. Grant could visit Garden in the Woods today he might salute former apprentice Anna Fialkoff, a graduate of College of the Atlantic, for planting cranberries in the new Herb Garden.  Read more>

Too much cheese in Twadleton :Children's author, illustrator shares his passion with St. Mary Academy students in Dover 3/22/11
Foster's Daily Democrat
As the citizens of Twaddleton became buried in cheese, the pre-kindergarten students at St. Mary Academy were a fit of giggles and laughter as local author Ryan Higgins, a graduate of College of the Atlantic, read them his story.  Read more>

Stephens College Guest Artist Brings Art of Contemporary African Dance 3/10/11
Missourian
Dancers at Stephens College will present a contemporary piece that represents political violence in Africa during its spring concert that concludes this weekend.  The piece, "Blanco Never Cried," was choreographed by Tawanda Chabikwa, who graduated from College of the Atlantic, and is a guest artist at Stephens for a month this semester.  Read more>

Debut novel takes US by storm 1/12/11
The Zimbabwean
A young and talented Zimbabwean author, Tawanda Chabikwa, recently released his first novel, Boababs in Heaven, at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, USA. Read more>

Urban farming 2.0: No soil, no sun 12/23/10
CNN Money
Forget the conventional wisdom that says veggies must be grown on vast farms in the Midwest. What if commercial-scale crops took root inside cavernous city warehouses, without sunlight or soil? College of the Atlantic helps fund such an operation. Read more>

Year of Giving 365 stories of personal giving, 7/12/10

Day 197 - Darron Collins '92
I have been following a blog that is written by Dr. Darron Collins, a scientist for the WWF and former resident of the Gulf region. Dr. Collins has been in the Gulf region after the oil spill supporting the work of some of the WWF’s local partners who have actively involved in front-line efforts to protect and restore the wildlife and wildlife habitats in affected areas. Through his writing you meet some of the people directly affected by this catastrophe. Read more>

The opportunities during a visiting student's year at COA proves life- and world- changing for scientist Michael Glotzer ('84)
The Scientist.com, December 2009
Divide, Conquer by Karen Hopkin
Michael Glotzer’s built-from-scratch biochemistry, and do-it-yourself genetics and microscopy, have revealed some of the secrets of cell division.
The search for something different landed him at the little-known College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where, as a visiting student, Glotzer decided to work as an intern with his friend’s father at the nearby Jackson Laboratory. Over the following year—eventually working full-time in the lab—Glotzer helped Les Kozak clone a gene that encodes a mitochondrial uncoupling protein in mouse brown fat. In the fall of 1984, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley as a junior. Read more»

COA SUSTAINABILITY

Top-10 Environmental Programs
Read about COA as #2 in the nation in numerous outlets:
The Daily Green
Mother Nature Network
Four Green Steps

College Hopefuls Look for Green Universities 4/20/11
USA Today
College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, includes the travel mileage of every prospective student who comes to visit as part of the carbon debt it must offset to remain carbon-neutral.  Read more>

Green Jobs on College Campuses 4/5/11
eHow
With the emergence of the green movement, environmentally friendly products and services are expanding to college campuses. The College of the Atlantic in Maine made moves in 2010 to purchase most of its produce from a nearby organic farm. Hired students were sent to the farm to help create wind energy turbines to provide a majority of the farm's power. Look for these types of jobs at your college as solar panels and wind energy become more commonplace.  Read more>

College Majors Go Green 2011
Careers and Colleges
A unique approach to sustainability can be found at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where every student majors in human ecology. College spokeswoman Donna Gold says this area of study examines the relationship between people and the world around them. "You cannot do something without having an impact somewhere else," Gold says. "You sort of look at the three-dimensional picture of all aspects of life."  Read more>

College of the Atlantic Celebrates Earth Day 4/24/11
WABI-TV
Students at College of the Atlantic spent Saturday celebrating Earth Day with events across campus.  Read more>

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Southwest Harbor, Maine 4/19/11
Coast Guard Compass
In early 2009, a team of concerned Coast Guard men and women set out on a "going green" journey after we realized the growing consumption of electricity and fuel oil throughout Sector Field Office Southwest Harbor’s housing areas. We set out to identify solutions to reduce energy consumption and use "greener-cleaner" sustainable sources of energy like solar, wind, wood and water.  College of the Atlantic students got to see these sustainable energy sources in action.  Read more> Watch more>

College of the Atlantic Receives Grant for Sustainable Ventures Incubator 11/24/10
Triple Pundit
The burgeoning trend of sustainable business programs being offered across universities nationwide is a heartening indicator that sustainability is now considered an absolutely integral part of standard business practice, worthy of focused study. One of the most unique undergraduate programs, offered at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, just recently received a large grant to further develop its Sustainable Ventures Incubator, a pilot program launched last year. According to a FenceViewer news article, the William Carey Foundation granted $100,000 to its undergraduate Sustainable Business program to fund student projects.  Read more>

Huffington Post, 6/8/10
Which Impossible Dream? - Carl Pope
I'm in Bar Harbor, Maine, as the commencement speaker for the College of the Atlantic. I'm struck by the seeming contradiction between the two words we use for these events: graduation and commencement. Surely they are opposites? It's clear what the COA Class of 2010 is graduating from -- but what, precisely, are they commencing to? Life? Obviously not. Adulthood?Read more>

Sierra Club vet challenges COA class, 6/5/10
Bangor Daily News
Graduating College of the Atlantic students were urged Saturday afternoon during commencement exercises to learn from the mistakes previous generations have made — especially when it comes to the environment.Read more>

Coast Guard News, 05/07/10
Coast Guard visits college’s ‘green’ housing
Coast Guard members from Sector Northern New England and Southwest Harbor and the commander of Coast Guard shore maintenance visited the College of the Atlantic’s housing facilities, May 4, 2010, to collaborate on ideas for “greener” Coast Guard housing renovations in Southwest Harbor, Maine.Read more»

The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, 05/03/10
Science: Following 'Holy Grail' of Dow Jones Index
Various Climate Index Reporting Projects Under Way Among Scientists
Ocean Health Index Goes Beyond Climate Change
... A separate group of scientists affiliated with the New England Aquarium, Conservation International, and the National Geographic Society is working on an index of ocean health it expects to launch in 2011.
Steven Katona, Ph.D., a former president of the College of the Atlantic and an adjunct senior scientist at the New England Aquarium in Bar Harbor, Maine, is managing director of the effort.Read more»

Portland Press Herald, 03/15/10
College of the Atlantic Celebrates early Earth Day with “Acts of Green” on Saturday, April 17
Read about COA's upcoming annual Earth Day celebration, Saturday, April 17. Read more»

U.S. News & World Reports, February 2010
10 Colleges With Green Dorms
When undertaking a special on green dorms, U.S. News & World Reports called COA up for advice on "how to green your dorm." The very first image on this ten-college slide show is COA's Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village. Matt Shaw '11, is quoted in the text. Read more»

National Public Radio, 9/15/09
Here and Now: Sustainable Colleges
A recent survey by the Princeton Review shows that two-thirds of students applying to college say how green a school is plays a big part in whether they’ll go there. We take a look at one college that was founded on the idea that green is good. The College of the Atlantic is located on Mount Desert Island in Maine, has fewer than 500 students and ranks fifth on Sierra Magazine’s list of the “most eco-enlightened U.S. universities.” Our guest is COA president, David Hales.Listen»

Newsweek, 8/12/09
Green Degrees in Bloom: The environment is hot by Sarah Kliff
When university presidents tout a commitment to "going green," they usually talk about sprucing up the physical campus—think energy-efficient dorms, locally grown fare in cafeterias and pledges to reduce carbon emissions. Now, academics want to devote attention to what's taught inside all those LEED-certified classrooms. Driven partially by market forces (the stimulus package alone devotes $30 billion to green energy) and partially by growing student concern over the environment, green majors have become a hot commodity on campus.
... For some schools, focusing on the environment is nothing new—it's integral to their mission. The College of the Atlantic has had exactly one major since its started offering classes in 1972: human ecology. Located on a 108-square-mile island off the coast of Maine, the school had students take on projects last year that varied from building an on-campus arboretum to working on an organic garden in Chile. In 2008 the college also added a program in Green and Socially Responsible Business. Students can still take courses in the ecology of the winter coastline (one offering from 2009), but now they can also take Business and Non-Profit Basics. "Students are really gravitating toward this," says Jay Friedlander, who directs the school's new business program. "They're seeing that if you want to effect change in the world, you can do so with a powerful business model that improves society." Read more»

United Nations Environment Programme, 7/23/09
Climate Neutrality with Honours: Universities Join UN-led Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.
The first universities that have joined the Climate Neutral Network are: College of the Atlantic, Evergreen State College, Malaga University (Spain), Middlebury College, Tongji University, Shanghai (China), University of the West of England, Bristol (UK). Read more»

Allied Whale

Whale Research Website Celebrates One Million Hits 4/8/11
Bermuda Sun
Working with the Allied Whale group at the College of the Atlantic, in Bar Harbor, Maine, Mr. Stevenson and researchers have succeeded in identifying humpbacks making repeat journeys to Bermuda.  Read more>

The 7th 207 Anniversary Show, we look back on our trip to Mount Dessert Rock December 2010
WCSH6
Read more, read more and read more!

Adopt a whale 12/20/10
The Boston Globe
Allied Whale, a research group at Maine’s College of the Atlantic, is offering a last-minute gift idea for those interested in conservation, the ocean, and whales. For $30, people will receive an adoption packet with photos of Oseana, information about the discovery, a waterproof guide to whales, and a bumper sticker. The funds support research and conservation efforts.  Read more>

Scientists Search for Mysterious Right Whale Breeding Ground 11/16/10
About.com
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered large whale species, with only about 425-450 remaining worldwide. Like other large baleen whales, the right whale spends its summers feeding in cold waters, and at least some of the whales spend their winters breeding in warm waters off the southeastern U.S.  Researchers from Allied Whale and others are going out to investigate those breeding spots.  Read more>

Should We Always Save a Stranded Seal?
OnEarth Magazine, 6/17/10
The staff and volunteers of Allied Whale, a marine mammal research group based in Bar Harbor, Maine, have been studying and promoting the conservation of cetaceans and seals since 1972. It's one of several groups along the Northeast coast "deputized" by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to respond to animal strandings. Despite their intense dedication to helping marine mammals, however, these and other recovery professionals are starting to ask themselves whether saving a stranded seal pup is always the right decision. Read more>

Bangor Daily News, 4/19/10
Stranding conference planned in Bar Harbor
BAR HARBOR, Maine - Environmentalists, academics and members of the general public who want to learn more about marine mammals and how to respond to entanglements and strandings will get the opportunity at a regional conference scheduled for early May. Read more»

Working Waterfront, 1/29/10
Sean Todd, director of Allied Whale who holds the Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences, is studying the potential impact of windpower on marine mammals. He comments his work and the noise of the sea in the article "Fathoming: What are the marine impacts of offshore wind turbines?" by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt
And what do the researchers and their students hear? "It's actually a fairly noisy environment," said Todd. The listening devices pick up everything from boat traffic to fish to whale vocalizations to the Rice Krispie-like crackling of oxygen escaping from the cells of seaweed. "There is nothing silent about the sea," said Todd. Read more»

ABOUT COA

College of the Atlantic gets anonymous $2M gift 12/6/10
Bangor Daily News
Christmas has come a little early this year for College of the Atlantic as an anonymous donor has given $2 million to the small liberal arts college’s endowment, college officials announced Monday. Read more>

Huffington Post: The Top Non-Traditional Colleges, 5/24/10
COA called #2 in the nation!Read more>

Heartland Trail
COA's museums - George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History and Bar Harbor Whale Museum listed as among top-ten in state.

Earth Day celebrated on MDI, 4/17/10
Bangor Daily News
BAR HARBOR, Maine - Predicted rain never materialized Saturday, which helped bring out hundreds of people to College of the Atlantic’s annual Earth Day celebration.
The event, believed to be one of the largest and oldest Earth Day celebrations in Maine, included livestock demonstrations, a lecture on food system sustainability, a composting workshop, dance performances, children’s activities, and food and craft vendors. Attendees also had a chance to help plant a tree on the COA campus as part of the celebration. Read more»

COA hosts noted designer John Bielenberg, March 2010
"Thinking wrong" expert, committed to use design to change the world, comes to COA for a "48-hour Blitz." Maine Magazine captures the experience. Read more»

The Chronicle, 3/09/10
5 Colleges Honored for Internationalizing Their Campuses
Noting College of the Atlantic's receipt of the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization by Nafsa: Association of International Educators. Read more»

Summer Programs

Summer Field Studies, 7/19/10
Bangor Daily News
“I couldn’t really get the purples since the bumblebee was working on it,” said Ben Goldstein, 7, of Bar Harbor, referring to the lilacs he wanted to collect for his new nature journal. ...

He sat down on the lawn of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor with a field studies group — three other children and two instructors who would join him for a week of exploring extreme habitats on Mount Desert Island.

“We operate on the basis of experiential learning. Hopefully, exposing them to these experiences will cultivate an environmental stewardship for themselves,” said Jasmine Smith, co-director of COA Summer Field Studies. Read more>