Media Coverage

Bibatshu Thapa Chhetri ’25 and Kai Goode ’24 spoke to NPR affiliate Maine Public about presenting at the just-completed COP28 global climate summit in Dubai, including how they believe their insights can impact global leaders and policymakers.

Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs provided extensive commentary to the technology publication The Verge about the challenges rural America faces when it comes to electric vehicle infrastructure, including how there's a "perception out there that things like electrification are ... maybe not for rural America.”

The just-published 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, is quickly gaining media attention. Recent highlights include feature segments on the popular podcasts The Politics Guys and Alyssa Milano's Sorry Not Sorry, where Jacobs and Shea talked about the book's key takeaways.

The Colby Museum's Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village exhibit was featured in a review by the Portland Press Herald for its ingenious art representation in Maine.

Amanda Stent, director of Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was interviewed for an article in Industry Dive’s technology hub, CIO Dive, about ChatGPT one year after the public release of the technology. In the story, she noted that it's important to start by asking if something "needs to be automated," and if it does, how "quite often, you can automate using something that’s much more inspectable like regular code."

Stacy-ann Robinson, associate professor of environmental studies, was included in a recent story by NPR about the impact of the upcoming climate negotiations in Dubai. In the piece, she noted that “you can't talk about climate finance without talking about climate justice," and that countries who haven’t contributed damaging emissions are concerned about being "impacted the most."

The Colby Museum's Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts and Village continues to generate media attention. Most recently the show was highlighted by the Boston Globe in a listing of key art activities happening throughout the region, and was also included in a story about an exhibit at the National Gallery.

Assistant Professor of Government, Nicholas Jacobs, weighed in with AI Jazeera, the largest news network in the Middle East, regarding the aversion of another government shutdown and the U.S. budget deal. Jacobs warned in the piece that the bipartisan success of Johnson’s funding bill should “not be seen as a shift to the centre for either Republicans or Democrats.”

A story in the Washington Post about birds preparing for winter included commentary from Amanda Gallinat, a visiting assistant professor of environmental studies. The article referenced her research, including a "fat score" that shows how birds "quickly store up pads of fat on their chest and under their wings" before they migrate.