Media Coverage

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.”

Maine’s ABC affiliate did a story on Colby partnering with the organization Be the Match as part of its initiative to add stem cell and bone marrow donors to a national registry. Hundreds of students took part, including a team of student athletes who were focused on beating last year's participation record.

Colby’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross was a featured guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program Think, where he discussed changing police culture from the inside of departments.

Colby’s director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Amanda Stent, and Assistant Professor of Writing Stacey Sheriff were part of a segment on how ChatGPT will impact higher ed and writing. Highlights can be found at time marks 1:58, 3:00, and 3:37, where Sheriff was able to identify what was generated by AI and what wasn’t.

A dynamic new dance created by Associate Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance Annie Kloppenberg was included in the Boston Globe's recently published "Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond."

Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Colby Professor of Philosophy Lydia Moland received a wonderful review in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

A leading art critic featured Colby’s successful efforts to use the arts to help drive Waterville’s resurgence. The piece highlighted how the College is “tackling a big problem” and “spending time, talent, and treasure to make a real, positive difference.”

Colby’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Neil Gross reviewed two new books for The Atlantic on how police departments can alter their behavior.