Media Coverage
The Portland Press Herald did a feature story on Colby's young baseball team and how it's trying to duplicate last year's success. This past season, the Mules finished 29-12, with a 9-3 record in NESCAC play, and reached the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in the program's history.
| A TikTok initiative by Colby students promoting positive masculinity was featured in a story by Rolling Stone. Known as Sex Ed for Guys, the effort is based on research by Charles A. Dana Professor of Education Adam Howard, who noted that "the videos are providing really valuable information in really accessible ways." |
A review by the Wall Street Journal of the exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville, noted how "it's an oddly substantial exhibition—with a genuine keeper of a catalog—even though its contents are small."
| The Portland Press Herald published a front-page feature about the Colby women's hockey team beating Wilkes University to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals this weekend. The story noted how the Mules "struck quickly," and quoted head coach Holley Tyng, who said the team did an "outstanding job on continuing to grow and continuing to get better.” |
The Portland Press Herald reviewed the Colby Museum’s Radical Histories exhibition, featuring prints by Chicanx artists. On view through June 8, the review highlights how the collection reminds us of the role protest art plays in societal change.
VOGUE published a feature article on Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville.
| NBC's Rob Caldwell interviewed Maine playwright Bess Welden of Colby’s Performance, Theater, and Dance Department about the debut of her multi-award-winning play Madeleines. Now showing at Portland Stage through March 23. |
Colby men’s and women’s hockey teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) semifinals.
Newsweek featured research by Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dale Kocevski in a round-up of the six most “remarkable” and “surprising” James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. Kocevski is leading a study on "Little Red Dots,” a phenomenon thought to be a new class of galaxies.
A top story in Maine this week, Associate Professor of Economics James Siodla led a pioneering study with the Maine Policy Institute that explores the impacts of housing policies in the state and offers recommendations for change. The report has drawn widespread attention from the media across the state.