Media Coverage

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson was featured on NPR affiliate WBUR's public radio show On Point. In the episode, "Guyana’s oil boom: The world’s newest petrostate plans to combat climate change with oil revenues," Robinson commented on the tensions associated with simultaneously pursuing climate mitigation, adaptation, and development objectives in a postcolonial petrostate.

Constellations and Come Closer exhibitions, which opened this summer in the Colby Museum’s Jetté Galleries, “are fascinating not only in themselves, but in their juxtaposition,” said a review in the Portland Press Herald.

In a story by the Wall Street Journal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Amanda Gallinat commented on New England’s changing foliage season, noting that it has been “pushed back about a week on average since the 1950s.”

Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs provided commentary for a story in Inc. magazine about how the Supreme Court's decision on a case related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could impact small businesses. In the article, he noted that possibly "no agency … is more disliked than this one" because of its focus on regulating financial products.

Fox News did a terrific piece about Colby's Lovejoy Award as part of its national broadcast last weekend. In addition to calling attention to the plight of this year's recipient, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, it referenced how Colby bestows “the country's highest journalism award for courage.”

The Portland Press Herald showcased Ghetto Gastro’s campus takeover, as the globally known culinary collective interacted with students and shared their experience of using multiple art forms to build community and dialogue around Black culture and of growing up in the Bronx.

A Boston Globe story about climate change disrupting tourism included commentary by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson. In the article, Carlson said she hopes the summer’s highly publicized extreme weather “prompts action, or at least awareness, among those who never thought seriously about climate change.”

Talking Biz News, the Portland Press Herald, WGME-TV, and WABI-TV published feature stories ahead of Colby’s 71st Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism event honoring the recipient, Evan Gershkovich.

As Mainers grappled with the financial impacts of a potential government shutdown, Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs weighed in with the Portland Press Herald, while America braced for impact.

A national writer from the Washington Post devoted his entire column to recent research by Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs. The topic of the piece was secession and the various factors driving its support, including the divisions and differences between states.