Media Coverage

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.

Travel site The Points Guy included the Lockwood Hotel in a recent story of the best dog-friendly hotels in the U.S. The piece referenced Waterville as a charming New England town that’s an “ideal jumping-off point for adventures through Maine’s wilderness with your dog in tow.”

The Colby Museum’s wonderful new show, Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms, was highlighted in Art Daily. The exhibition is the second show in the museum’s new Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.

Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman provided commentary in this article on the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, a hub for climate research. "Ice cores are one of the best archives that the Earth provides, like a gigantic Library of Congress filled with important information,” said Koffman. "By studying these archives, we see that the rate of change that humans are enacting on the environment is faster than anything that we see in the geological record.”