Media Coverage

The Chronicle of Higher Education tells the story of Colby's role in the transformation of downtown Waterville in a video titled "A College Gives Back to the Town That Once Saved It." The four-minute video follows President David A. Greene along Main Street while he points out projects already complete and other initiatives underway. "With Greene’s leadership, the liberal arts college has pulled together the community and investors, raised millions, and embarked on a major downtown revitalization," the Chronicle reports. Watch the video to see everything that's happened in the last five years and what lies ahead.

Professor of Government Anthony Corrado was quoted in the CNBC article titled "Presidential candidate Andrew Yang will give $1,000 a month to 10 more families," following Yang's announcement at the Sept. 12 presidential debate. Corrado, a campaign finance expert, told CNBC that Yang's plans could raise legal issues. “If the payments are made from the campaign, this will certainly raise questions as to whether they are permitted under the law, but at present how the law should be applied to these payments is a gray area for which there are no direct precedents,” Corrado said.

Jennifer Coane, associate professor of psychology, was quoted in the Sept. 10 Washington Post article "Did a cashier steal 1,300 credit card numbers with a ‘photographic memory?’ Experts doubt it." Coane, who studies how memory works, told the Post that recalling the world in vivid detail would make daily functioning difficult, "You could never be able to erase anything from your mind, because everything would pile up," she said. "Coane said it’s likely the alleged thief trained himself to learn sequences of numbers with a high degree of accuracy, given how rare photographic and eidetic memory are," the Post reported.

An essay by Aaron Hanlon, assistant professor of English, appeared in Inside Higher Ed Sept. 9. His piece, titled "Centering the Humanities," discusses how "humanities centers and institutes are key to improving the image of the humanities among the public and policy makers." Hanlon argues that institutions need to better define what the humanities are and to link their work to the general public. "If we want to improve the image of the humanities among the public and policy makers, we need to focus on coherent statements and examples about what the humanities are and do," Hanlon wrote.

An Artscope magazine article titled "Masterful Collections: Maine's Universities Showcase America’s Best" calls out the Colby College Museum of Art, noting artists in its permanent collection such as John Marin, Alex Katz, and James McNeill Whistler as well as its current exhibitions, including Wíwənikan…the beauty we carry and Occupy Colby: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Year 2.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Arisa White has earned attention in the California media. Her book Biddy Mason Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books Aug. 18. The book recounts the story of "a woman who was born a slave in Georgia in 1818 and died a successful businesswoman and philanthropist in Los Angeles in 1891," said the reviewer, Candance Cooper, who grew up in Los Angeles. "The writers and illustrator of this book have done an excellent job relating what one remarkable woman was able to accomplish against overwhelming odds," she concluded.

At the Poetry Center Digital Archive at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, White compiled a digital collection of 14 "historic recordings features, in alphabetical order, original Poetry Center readings by Ai, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Pat Parker" that was just released. Dubbed "Black Women in the Archives," the project was completed during White's time as the Poetry Center scholar in residence in 2016.

A report by Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was referenced in the op-ed "When is America going to end its shadow war in Somalia?" in the Sept. 5 Guardian. The report, titled "The Costs of War in Somalia," was just released by the Cost of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and "looks at the past four decades of US military involvement in Somalia," the op-ed reports. Besteman is an expert on Somali and has written extensively about it, including her 2016 book Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine.

Laura Seay, assistant professor of government, wrote the article "To Cure Ebola Will Take More Than a Pill" that appeared in Foreign Affairs Sept. 4. While experimental drugs are helping the country with its latest Ebola outbreak, "eradicating Ebola in Congo will require building public trust among Congolese and working with community organizations in order to reach vulnerable populations and overcome governance issues" Seay wrote.

Colby was ranked number seven in Sierra Magazine's Cool School list, released Sept. 3. The schools in this list display "a deep and thorough commitment to protecting the environment, addressing climate change, and encouraging environmental responsibility through their curriculum and on-campus operations," according to the magazine. In 2013 Colby became the fourth college or university to achieve carbon neutrality,

A poem by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, was selected for the Portland Press Herald's series Deep Water: Maine Poems. "Screaming Woman," White's poem, "offers a troubling and refracted portrait of a woman’s very public disassembling. Rather than hold that portrait at an arm’s length, the poem implicates us all in it," the series' curator Gibson Fay-LeBlanc said.