Media Coverage

One final review of the Colby Museum's very popular Alex Katz: Theater and Dance exhibition was published in the national media. The piece notes how the museum "boasts an impressive collection of Katz’s art and is always finding new ways to showcase it.”

A very nice piece by a local columnist recognized Paul J. Schupf’s contributions to Waterville, and how pleased he would have been with the new arts center on Main Street that bears his name.

The travel site tripsavvy thinks Central Maine—along with Sydney, Australia, Antarctica, and Kuala Lumpur—is one of the “most exciting destinations to explore this year.”

Watch this MaineLife video (starting at the 11:50 mark) for a sneak peek of the soon-to-be-completed Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street in downtown Waterville.

Adam Howard, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article titled "College students worry about decreasing diversity if affirmative action is overturned" about the upcoming decision by the Supreme Court about affirmative action in higher education. "If the court overturns affirmative action it will undoubtedly hinder colleges trying to make their schools more diverse,” said Howard, who studies social class in education.

Nicholas Jacobs, assistant professor of government, talked to NewsNation about his research on the widening divide in America between urban and rural voters. 

An article in the New York Times about the relationship between Alex Katz and Paul Taylor referenced how the Colby Museum’s current show Alex Katz: Theater and Dance is largely focused on that partnership. The piece also included commentary from the exhibition’s catalog. 

The Sunday edition of the Portland Press Herald published a feature article on Colby’s Center for the Arts and Humanities and its “Food for Thought” theme. In the story, Dean Allbritton, associate professor of Spanish and the center’s director, commented on how “food is such a rich theme,” and it’s “really about thinking about our relationship to food.” The piece also noted how the topic was “bringing food-related investigations to 16 classes in fields from anthropology and Spanish to religious studies,” and that there are also a “series of food-related lectures, panel discussions, and film screenings to underscore this year’s theme.”

Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto appeared on TVO's show "The Agenda" with Steve Paikin in an episode titled "What Makes Up Our Personality?" Soto, director of Colby's Personality Lab and an expert on the Big Five personality traits, was one of three guests discussing nature vs. nurture, lifespan personality development, intentional personality change, and the Big Five traits. TVO is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education.

Professor of Environmental Studies Philip Nyhus, a conservation biologist who specializes in human–wildlife conflict, provided context for a story in Nature titled "Asian elephants mostly roam outside protected areas — and it’s a problem." Nyhus commented on researchers' attempts to study Asian elephants, which "live deep in dense forest and so are much more difficult to study than African elephants, which roam open savannahs," he told Nature. Researchers are trying to understand why the elephants leave protected areas and how they can reduce that behavior. "The research provides strong evidence for how to set up suitable protected areas that reduce the risk of elephants wandering out," said Nyhus.