Media Coverage
Colby’s Center for Small Town Jewish Life collaborated with community partners to build a sukkah in Downtown Waterville for the Sukkot holiday. Read more in the Morning Sentinel.
A Bangor Daily News story about boosting voter participation highlighted the student-led Colby Votes initiative, which was responsible for registering young voters across campus.
In its story on the Nebraska senate race, Roll Call highlighted comments from Associate Professor of Government, Nicholas Jacobs.
An international art and culture publication published a feature story on the Colby Museum of Art’s latest exhibit ‘Into the wind: American weathervanes' ahead of its opening.
One of the more popular shows from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Professor of History Larissa Taylor about her book The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc. Listen to the episode here.
| As Milton barreled toward Florida, the Associated Press tapped the expertise of Colby’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus Jim Fleming for an interesting and timely article on historical efforts to control hurricanes. |
The New York Times popular political podcast The Run-Up, which focuses on the 2024 election, interviewed Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs about JD Vance, Tim Walz, and the fight for rural America.
In a sterling review, the Portland Press Herald featured the exhibition Martha Diamond: Deep Time, on view at the Colby Museum through Oct. 13, calling it an "opportunity to see a true revolutionary and idiosyncratic voice that was not sufficiently heard in its time." The exhibit includes rarely seen pieces by the late artist and is the first major survey of Diamond's work in decades.
A Central Maine News photo essay highlighted the performance of “The Black Azaleas Song Cycle” by Arisa White, associate professor of english (creative writing), for Post Pardon: The Opera.
Colby's Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross provided commentary for a story by the Wall Street Journal about how and why universities in the South are attracting more students from the North. In the piece, he noted that some students are "opting into an atmosphere where they can focus on things other than politics.”