Media Coverage

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.”

Atmospheric scientist James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus, was featured in Forbes, for his expertise on cloud seeding.

An article in Vox about OpenAI’s new GPT storefront included commentary from Amanda Stent, director of Colby’s Davis Institute for AI, who said that “companies that haven’t figured out how to embed their chatbots in other verticals are going to die.”

In a story by the Boston Globe about tourism and Antarctica, Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman commented that despite various measures to mitigate damage, the increasing number of visitors to the continent is having “real, tangible impacts on the ecosystem.”

The Daily Yonder published a comprehensive review of ‘The Rural Voter,’ a new book by Colby Government faculty Nicholas Jacobs and Dan Shea.

An article in Down East magazine about colleges and universities in Maine building sustainable residential halls highlighted Colby’s new Johnson Pond Houses, noting that they are “capable of generating as much energy as they consume annually.”

The Boston Globe's article on Maine barring former president Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary election included commentary from Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Jacobs, who noted that for some the decision “amounts to constitutional hardball” and is “fueling a longstanding narrative of ‘the two Maines.’”

In Maine’s leading newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, Colby's Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies David Freidenreich was featured in an article about how bagels, the once quintessential Jewish bread, are the “new holiday tradition” in Maine. “Bagels are so American at this point that many people have no idea there was a Jewish connection,” said Freidenreich.