Media Coverage

CBS affiliate WABI covered the annual Mud Meet woodsmen's competition, hosted this year by Colby. Participating teams took part in a variety of events, including a pulp toss, cross-cut sawing, log decking, and axe throwing.

Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson provided commentary for an article on how eco-sabotage is capturing the imagination of climate-fiction authors.

A popular arts newsletter highlighted the Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms exhibition at the new Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.

Colby’s announcement that it was joining a broad network of schools to help rural high school students enroll and succeed in higher education received significant attention from regional media, including the Portland Press Herald and TV affiliates NBC and CBS.

After setting a season record for wins last year, a sports writer thinks the Mules can once again emerge as a NESCAC contender.

A story on Mark Boles ’92 highlighted his successful retail store, noting that it’s one of a handful of Black-owned businesses focused on the outdoor sector.

A New York Times review of Walk the Walk by Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross referenced the book as “thoughtful and important,” noting that “Gross’s optimism about police reform offers an antidote to the cynicism and gloom that pervade most such discussions.”  

Online luxury magazine Lux Exposé featured Waterville in a brief list of smaller destinations bustling with new attractions, noting that the city’s Main Street has evolved into “an incredible hotspot full of artistic energy.”

A story about how famed Utah ski area Park City has chosen to ban ski wax containing toxic “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, referenced important research from Colby, led by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson. KSL Broadcasting out of Salt Lake City said that Colby's research  found "that the chemical contamination was greatly reduced over two years from when a ski race happened without the ban on that type of ski wax and when it was in place for the same race."

Television news anchor Chris Hayes featured Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross on his popular podcast Why Is This Happening? The interview focused on Gross’s new book about police reform, which Hayes noted was “fabulous.” The conversation starts at the time mark 4:30.