Media Coverage

Colby College's recent Rural Voter Survey was featured in USA Today. The poll, which explored how rural Americans feel about the upcoming presidential election, provided insightful data and complements research in the new book The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America by Assistant Professor of Government, Nick Jacobs, and Professor of Government, Dan Shea.

Colby’s new data science major was included in a story by Inside Higher Ed on the growing popularity of the degree. In the article, Associate Professor of Statistics Jim Scott noted that while a growing statistics program may not be an obvious fit at Colby, it’s the College’s “liberal arts focus that makes it a place where data science can thrive.”

In a Financial Times article about how Apple is moving to bring generative AI to its iPhones, Amanda Stent, director of Colby's Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, spoke about the company’s language model Ferret and what makes the technology “so exciting.”

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Elizabeth McGrath was featured in several science publications, including SciTechDaily, for her role in a discovery on how early galaxies look more like noodles. "We're very excited about these early trends," said McGrath, who is working with other researchers on analyzing data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Assistant Professor of Government, Nicholas F. Jacobs, has continued to provide analysis to the national media on various political news stories relative to the 2024 election, top coverage includes the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Boston Globe.

The Colby Museum’s exhibition, The World Outside: Louise Nevelson At Midcentury, topped the Boston Globe’s recent list of 10 compelling winter art shows, noting that it’s “as significant a survey as Nevelson has had in years.

James R. Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus, provided insight for an article in PolitiFact, a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials, about the history of climate change.

A day of service at Colby to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was the focus of a feature story by the Morning Sentinel. The piece highlighted how Colby students, faculty, and staff came together to help a local homeless shelter, noting that the College leads a wide range of service projects in the area throughout the year.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Winifred Tate, who leads the Maine Drug Policy Lab at Colby, provided commentary for a USA TODAY story about a congressional hearing on fentanyl. In the article, she said that legislation to reduce fentanyl deaths must “focus on the people who are actually dying.”