Media Coverage

In an article titled "Where the Buffs Roam" Down East magazine asked "10 art-world luminaries," including Sharon Corwin, director and chief curator of the Colby College Museum of Art, "to share the under-the-radar places where they find great Maine art." Corwin recommended the Langlais Sculpture Preserve in Cushing to see the wooden sculptures by Bernard Langlais. “To experience these sculptures in the gorgeous landscape where he made them is really special," she told Down East.

Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, an exhibition by Theaster Gates at the Colby College Museum of Art, was reviewed in the Boston Globe May 9. The exhibition includes cabinets holding "3,000 photographs and page mockups from Ebony and Jet through the years, specifically of women," the Globe reports. "There’s something monumental about it: The cabinets emanate significance and authority, a purpose-built archive of Very Important Things that had always been there, and always would be."

The Los Angeles Times cited James R. Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, in an article titled "The real climate change controversy: Whether to engineer the planet in order to fix it." The article is very loosely based on Fleming's book, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. 

In a Mainebiz article titled "Maine’s colleges and universities find new, innovative areas for growth," Colby is highlighted for its investment in downtown Waterville. President David A. Greene told Mainebiz that "in order to remain relevant, Maine colleges must continue building open, collaborative relationships with their communities." Of note were four projects Colby has undertaken downtown, including the construction of the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons and a proposed downtown art gallery. “The cloistered walls of our academic institutions are beautiful,” Greene said, “but they have to be permeable.”    

Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, reviewed Biased, a new book by Jennifer Eberhardt, in the Sunday New York Times. Gross called the book an "unexpectedly poignant overview of the research on cognitive biases and stereotypes, especially racial bias in criminal justice."

An essay by Assistant Professor of English Aaron Hanlon, titled "The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb" appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education April 19. The essay highlights the large number of adjunct professors at colleges and universities and what Hanlon calls "the cruelty of adjunctification," where professors work year-to-year without the prospect of tenure. "We need to fundamentally reconceptualize the battle against adjunctification, shifting away from pity or outrage and toward arguments that universities themselves deny at their own peril," he argued.

Colby's annual spring day of service, Colby Cares Day, was covered in the Morning Sentinel April 20. The article, "Colby students lend a hand at Waterville area organizations for Colby Cares Day," focused on just two of the numerous sites where Colby students lent a hand: the L.C. Bates Museum and the Waterville Public Library. "This is a day where it’s not about us. It’s about realizing how fortunate we are to be Colby students and all the advantages we have in the Maine community,” senior Kallie Hutchinson told the Sentinel.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson was in Augusta, Maine, April 17 testifying at the State House and urging "legislators to ban certain food-packaging that contain synthetic chemicals known as PFAS and phthalates," Maine Public reported. Carlson and some of her students testified in favor of a new bill that would ban these chemicals in Maine. "The chemicals actually leach from the food-packaging material or the food contact material into the food, and we ingest it,” Carlson said. “And ingestion is a major source of exposure." The Portland Press Herald also reported on the hearing and quoted Carlson: "The chemicals actually leach from the food-packaging material or the food contact material into the food, and we ingest it,” she said. “And ingestion is a major source of exposure." CentralMaine.com also ran the story online

Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, a campaign-finance expert, was quoted in an April 16 CNN article titled "2020 fundraising: Top takeaways from the first quarter." The fact that only half of the 16 Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 have raised $3 million or less is "a sign that Democratic donors haven't yet coalesced behind the contenders," Corrado told CNN. "It's a huge field of not very well-known candidates." Corrado also conducted an interview with McClatchy about the South Carolina Senate race and out-of-state money in U.S. Senate races. “But the fact that Senate candidates are now receiving more than half of their money from outside of the state rather than inside of the state is not atypical, particularly when you have a senator who is as visible and been so prominently featured in the national news as Sen. Graham.” In a March 20 Agence France-Presse article titled "2020 Democrats Build Campaign War Chests," Corrado said, “The race for money in the Democratic Party is really going to be a race for small dollars. What Bernie Sanders proved in 2016 was that you can finance a campaign largely depending on small-dollar contributions—if you can generate the excitement amongst the grass roots faithful.”  

Natasha Zelensky, associate professor of music, gave a multi-media presentation titled “Franco Memory Through Song” at the University of Maine's Lewiston-Auburn Campus on April 11. Zelensky, an ethnomusicologist who studies the role of music in immigrant communities, discussed her project, undertaken with her students, "to collect and preserve some of Lewiston's most unique—and treasured—Franco-American chanson," the Lewiston Sun-Journal reported.  Watch a short video about Zelensky's class "Maine's Musical Soundscapes: Ethnography of Maine" here.