Media Coverage

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.

In a Boston Globe review of the Colby Museum's The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury, critic Murray Whyte noted that "every piece in the exhibition is a monument" to the artist, and just "pick one from the astonishing array of riches here, really, and you’ll see what I mean."

Colby’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment published research this week using a new tool called the Climate Reality Check, a project co-led by Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and supported by Colby students who evaluated climate change in popular films. It was covered by various media, including the Los Angeles Times, the Portland Press Herald, and Fast Company, which noted the findings are “bound to raise eyebrows throughout the industry."

Central Maine News produced a photo essay of the final rehearsal of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, which was performed by the Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs. The Masterwork concert at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts "drew capacity crowds" and involved a combined ensemble of 170 students and community members.

New Scientist featured research by Josh Martin, assistant professor of biology, who identified an anatomical oddity in the Australian leaf-planking praying mantis species: a bump projecting from their chests that’s “the world’s weirdest tongue.”

CentralMaine.com published a short piece about the Colby baseball team hitting a historic mark when it secured the best season in program history.

Central Maine is expected to dodge the brunt of browntail moth troubles this year after successful mitigation efforts that included Colby's Davis Institute for AI, the Portland Press Herald reported.

For an article on the impact of falling crime rates on the 2024 election, The Economist turned to the expertise of Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, who said it was a bit of a “danger zone” for President Biden.

Sarah Braunstein, associate professor of English, was featured on the NPR podcast Marginalia, where she discussed her new novel, Bad Animals. In the episode, she talked about how, while writing the book, she developed courses at Colby that touched on her writing process.