Media Coverage

Diverse Education covered the naming of four new residence halls, opened in the 2022-23 academic year by Johnson Pond. These halls were named in April to honor Paula Crane Lunder, D.F.A. ’98, Jane Powers ’86, Jacqueline Núñez ’61, and Carol Swann-Daniels ’69.

The Boston Globe featured the Colby Museum's current exhibit ‘The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury’ in its round-up of current things to do around Boston.

Mainebiz and Centralmaine.com covered Colby's announcement of Cushnoc Cantina coming to the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons in Fall 2024.  The full kitchen and bar will offer tacos, beer, tequila, and more.

Colby's announcement of the McVey Center for Computational and Data Sciences was included in a story by Forbes about significant gifts that various colleges have recently received.

Colby senior Morgan Cheney '24 and her photography as an EMS and firefighter with the Waterville Fire Department was featured in a story by News Center Maine and CBS affiliate WABI.

A USA Today story about Oregon considering secession cited research by Colby Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs.

Colby's women's lacrosse and men's baseball teams received attention in Central Maine News for making it into their NCAA Division III tournaments. Go Mules!

The Boston Globe published a feature story on the Buck Lab's Climate Reality Check, co-developed by Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and supported by Colby students. A similar concept to the Bechdel-Wallace Test, the tool evaluates climate change in popular recent films.

In 2019 Sarah Joliat and her son helped launch an ice hockey program in Waterville for the intellectually and developmentally disabled. Colby helped support the program during the pandemic, now, it is expanding across the state. Read the story in the Portland Press Herald.

Research by Ian Glasspool, a postdoctoral fellow and paleobotanist at Colby, was featured in a story by the New York Times. The article looked at his work involving ancient charcoal and how it's helping scientists understand how wildfires shaped—and were shaped by—climate change long ago.