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Mission Baxter Summiting Maine’s tallest peak with the Outing Club
 
Colby Composters at Common Ground A greener fair means sorting trash, sifting compost
 
Things to Do A selection of recent popular events.
 
Did You Know... That the average temperature at Colby in the winter is higher than at Middlebury?
 
Trotters Unite! Past and present Colby runners joined forces to win the seventh annual Around Mount Desert Island Relay this summer.
 
Living the Green Life Two of Colby’s residence halls, renovated last summer, received LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
 
Downtown Dancing \'Til Dusk College students in central Maine had practically just arrived on their campuses when it was time to leave—to go downtown for the third annual Hill ’n the ’Ville festival Sept.12.
 
Class of \'13 Counts When Dean of Admissions Parker Beverage introduced the Class of 2013 to the president and faculty of Colby in September, he didn’t just show off his speechwriting skills, but his math skills, too. Here’s Dean Beverage’s snapshot
of the class—by the numbers.
 
Professor Walter Hatch on how the proliferation of NGOs is changing China (or not).
 
A Wednesday in the life of Natalie Deuschle \'11 A Wednesday in the life of Natalie Deuschle '11
 
Students who spent the summer doing research with faculty presented their findings at the second annual Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat (CUSRR), hosted by Crab Apple Whitewater in The Forks, a small town near the Canadian border.
 
DNA profiling has been adopted with great success in the United States and across Europe, but it is not yet used widely in other parts of the world. In a lecture Sept. 26, Professor of Chemistry Julie Millard explained the science underlying the use of DNA in forensic investigations.
 
Icing on the Cake What do zombie films and crustaceans have in common? Both were the subjects of presentations at the 10th Annual Colby Undregraduate Research Symposium.
 
King of the Mountain Billy Pettengill '11 won a snowboarding National Championships.
 
Think Globally, Shop Locally Colby students shop locally in downtown Waterville.