In fall 2024, COA offered a travel course to the Meseta in Spain. Students spent the entire term traveling the Camino Frances; a route traveled for centuries by pilgrims looking for answers, or, perhaps, pilgrims looking for different questions. Read more Read more Features The reciprocal Chemical interactions Music is social Transforming the system The phantom limbs of Nancy Andrews Storytelling We are Allied Whale Reveling Tending the realness of things No hay camino The oldest American apple? From the archives The midden Showing up for stakeholders Historical plaque A covert nickelodeon Re-enchanting the world Bugging the machine At play with Andy Goldsworthy What now / a Supreme Court roundtable From the archives The Portals Field ecology almanac Sus ojos brillan rojo en la noche News Northern lights on the farm COA delegation to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Great Cranberry Island home energy audits Collins House dedication Educator opportunities expand What the heck is Graupel? New residence hall Indigenous tuition waiver announced New partnership begins Strategic plan focuses on people, place Let the music play Artists-in-residence program expands Building a more accessible COA A buggy situation Human ecology in Japan Energized for change Educator stories sought COA Mount Desert Center opens Entrepreneurial effort focuses on ecological education Goldsworthy comes to COA COA celebrates 50th academic year Housing needs come to the fore Love of philosophy spurs chair gift Making something from everything… New faces A new president takes the helm Kara Gadeken, marine ecology Brittany Slabach ’09, terrestrial biology Duc Hien Nguyen, economics Neeraj Sebastian, professor of drawing and painting Brook Muller, professor of ecological design Su Yin Khor, writing program director New staff Howard Lapsley, trustee Allison Fundis '03, trustee Laurie Baker: computing, data science, epidemiology E. Saffronia Downing, teaching fellow Roland Reynolds, trustee New staff David Gibson, director of energy April Nugent, manager, Peggy Rockefeller Farms Palak Taneja, literature and writing Jonathan Henderson, music Joyce Cacho, trustee Heather Richards Evans, trustee Chandreyee Mitra ’01, trustee Community Community notes Alumni notes Remembering Eugene Lesser ’78 Lauren Pepperman ’16 Curiosity, commitment, and friendship Gael Gaudarrama ’27 Kathy Tran ’26 Matt McInnis ’09, Jon Carver ’09, and Eliah Thanhauser ’09 In memoriam: Bill Newlin Community notes Elizabeth Rousek Ayers ’95 In memoriam: Susi Newborn ’86 In memoriam: Robert G. Seddig In memoriam: Charles E. Farley Sr. In memoriam: Sandra Holmes Modeen Retirements Alumni notes Michael Diaz-Griffith ’09 Sofia Dragoti ’25 Louisa and Bill Newlin Michael Boland ’94 Simone Le Page ’24 Hajja Naseem ’10 Community notes Letters Inauguration speech (excerpted) Evaporation The value of higher education and COA A letter from Cairo Letter from the editor Letter from the president Why I give COA: Fire, earth, air, water, and community Smarter planet or wiser earth? Letter from the editor Letter from the president Diving into fiction Why I give How to change the world… Letter from the editor Letter from the president College of the Ecstatic About our cover Letter from the president Letter from the editor Why I give A farewell letter to the COA community Today is not special Submit comments to editor
