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Singer/Songwriter spending final COA year abroad
Singer/Songwriter Cora Rose Lewicki
Cora Rose Lewicki, known to music lovers around Mount Desert Island as Cora Rose, will be performing a farewell concert at the college’s Gates Community Center on Saturday, May 30 at 8 p.m. Lewicki is known for her singing and song writing, and for her MDI performances during her time as a student at COA. While she is not actually graduating this year, Lewicki will be spending her senior year studying international trade in Ghana and Mexico. As in previous concerts, Lewicki will be performing her own songs, with possibly a few covers. She’s been playing piano since kindergarten, writing songs since 3rd grade, and started performing her own work in 8th grade.
Filed under: Outside Project | Tags: bollywood, interdisciplinary, Shakespeare, theatre
Production brings dance, music and new flair to Shakespeare
The Bollywood Tempest at COA
College of the Atlantic’s production of “The Tempest” is unlike any you have ever seen. Co-directors Dan Mahler and Alicia Hynes have set William Shakespeare’s island fantasy as a Bollywood production, adding the music and dance style of contemporary Indian movies. Says Mahler, who last year created a masterful blending of music and dance in his direction of the Greek tragedy “The Bacchae,” “We can do this with Shakespeare because it’s so open-ended. The text transcends its time period. Choreographers are Tanvi Nair of India and Aishath Loofa Mohamed of the Maldives. Both are familiar with Bollywood style and the traditional dance upon which many of the numbers are based. (more…)
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Brett Ciccotelli, Nick Jenei, and Michael Keller receive Watson Fellowships
Brett Ciccotelli
All three of College of the Atlantic’s Watson nominees have been awarded Watson Fellowships this year – despite the Watson Foundation’s reduction of the awards by 20 percent due to the economy. This prestigious fellowship funds a year of international travel to graduating seniors. In past years, fifty fellowships were awarded; this year, there were only forty, chosen from 177nominees from forty-seven of some of the best colleges in the United States.
In his letter congratulating COA and the recipients, Watson Foundation Director Cleveland Johnson noted that, “the elimination of ten fellowship slots has made this year’s competition especially fierce.” The awards to all three COA nominees, he added, “is a high honor given the extraordinary strength of the national pool of nominees this year and the reduced number of available fellowships.”
The students are Brett Ciccotelli, Nick Jenei, and Michael Keller.
Filed under: Outside Project | Tags: gender studies, internship work, internships, latin america, london, mexico, Outside Project, paris, philosophy, photography, religion, study abroad
COA Student Encounters “Strangers in Paris (or Secrets)”
(Self-Portrait) Villejuif, Paris, France 2008, Series: Strangers in Paris (or Secrets), Glicee, 35 mm negative, 24" x 16.5"
Diana Escobedo Lastiri (‘09) surely is a world traveler. Raised in Mexico City, she finished high school in India, then came to College of the Atlantic. As part of her studies at COA she spent three months in London as an intern for noted photographer Steve Double.
But it was during her time in Paris last spring when Lastiri says she “became a photographer.” As a stranger photographing strangers, Escobedo Lastiri focused on the quiet moments she noticed in others, reflecting her own sense of quiet on the street. The resulting photographs were displayed in COA’s Blum Gallery from October 1-15, 2008.
The bulk of Escobedo Lastiri’s exhibition, “Strangers in Paris (or Secrets),” is a series of (more…)
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Ana Maria Rey to Look at Lives of Former Coca Farmers in South America
Ana Maria Rey Martinez
When Ana Maria Rey Martinez receives her flower and diploma from College of the Atlantic on June 7, she’ll be setting out on the Ana Maria Rey Martinez journey of a lifetime, talking with South American farmers who have once-but now no longer-raised coca, the raw material for cocaine.
Her journey, which she has titled “Testimonials of Former Coca Growers,” will be funded by a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, given to just 50 graduating college seniors from 47 select colleges and universities. Since 1983, when COA was first asked to nominate students for a fellowship, COA seniors have received 25 fellowships.
Rey was raised in the northeastern Colombian city of Bucaramanga. She felt totally (more…)
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Neith Little and Anna Perry receive rigorous scientific award
College of the Atlantic junior Neith Little, and sophomore Anna Perry have each been awarded scholarships from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This year, 321 scholars were chosen from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. COA students received two of the three scholarships given to students in Maine.
Little, from Painted Post, NY, has been focused on field biology, studying both botany and herpetology, creating research experiments in both. She recently designed a research project at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire that was on the distribution of streamside salamanders. She hopes to publish her research so that her efforts can help others to understand the need for buffer strips around streams to protect these fragile amphibians.
Neith Little
According to Chris Petersen, COA faculty member in biology, Neith stands out for her multiple abilities and dedication. “Neith is a wonderfully (more…)
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Lauren Nutter and Matthew Maiorana given environmental honor
Lauren Nutter and Matthew Maiorana in Bali
Each year, the Morris K. Udall Foundation chooses 80 outstanding college students from across the nation as Udall Scholars to honor Congressman Udall’s years of service his country. This year, two College of the Atlantic second-year students, Matthew Matthew Maiorana and Lauren Nutter at the UNFCC in Bali Maiorana and Lauren Nutter, received the scholarship for their commitment to a sustainable environment. Two more COA students, Brett Ciccotelli and Michael Keller, were among the fifty-one to receive honorable mentions.
Both Maiorana, of Detroit, MI, and Nutter, of Uxbridge, MA, hold leadership positions with the youth environmental organization SustainUS; both spent much of last December in Bali as youth delegates to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Michael Keller heading to New York and Berlin on Humanity in Action Fellowship
College of the Atlantic junior Michael Keller will be heading to New York City this summer and Berlin next fall, having received a Michael Keller highly competitive Humanity in Action Fellowship. Keller was one of 59 students chosen out of the 375 American students who applied-and the only one studying in Maine-selected for this award. (more…)
