Media Coverage

Listen to Inside Higher Ed podcast The Key interview Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Director David Watts for a special episode about Colby's AI leadership and initiatives like Mule Chat.

A wide range of media outlets noticed Colby’s recent Rhodes Scholarship winner, Daniel Juzych '26, including the Boston Globe. In the story, Juzych noted that “learning from some of the best professors in the world and being with classmates who are curious and incredible people has motivated my entire path.”

Dance Magazine highlighted the work of Ben Baker, assistant professor of philosophy, in an article about how recent innovations in AI-assisted motion-capture technology might impact dance artists.

The Colby football team’s successful season, including winning the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin rivalry, was featured in a story by the Portland Press Herald. The piece noted that the season was "years in the making" and that "defense and special teams played a big part in Colby’s strong finish this fall."

In a National Geographic article, Megan Cook, the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Associate Professor of Literature, was interviewed about “dirtbag medievalism,” an interpretive lens and term she developed, which is getting broad recognition.

CNBC’s Breaking Point interviewed Assistant Professor of Economics Ben Scharadin for an article about SNAP cuts and food waste following a tumultuous week for families that rely on the benefits.

BBC Future featured comments from Amanda Gallinat, lecturer of environmental studies, for an article about why leaves change color in the fall.

Véronique Plesch, the James M. Gillespie Professor of Art, was a guest on Is It? The Art Mystery Podcast, created and hosted by Noah Charney ’02, discussing a work by a 17th-century painter. The production uses experts and artificial intelligence to answer art history mysteries.

Associate Professor and Chair of Biology Dave Angelini was interviewed on the public radio program The World for his expertise in evolutionary biology after French researchers discovered a new type of ant capable of giving birth to an entirely different species.

The Colby College Museum of Art was included in a Boston Globe article about how the work of museums throughout the Northeast continues to reveal and celebrate "the dynamic, diverse, fraught evolution of American culture." The piece highlighted the museum's Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery retrospective, on view in Waterville through January.