Media Coverage

In an article discussing Travel + Leisure magazine’s recent featured story on Colby’s Lockwood Hotel, Mainebiz connected the hotel with Waterville’s revitalization, noting that city officials are excited to see “some national press about the pending opening and all the investments in downtown.”

In the story about things to do around Boston, the Boston Globe highlighted the Colby Museum’s Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death exhibition, commenting that it “is the first public presentation of recently rediscovered drawings that Wyeth made in the 1990s of his own funeral,” which creates “a deeper look at the nature of artistic meditation on mortality.”

Travel + Leisure magazine published an extensive article about the Lockwood Hotel and its connection to Colby, noting that, “By creating places for locals and those affiliated with the college, this initiative aims to improve quality of life downtown, while also transforming the city into an arts and culture destination.”

A Yahoo News story about a federally funded harm reduction program in rural Maine mentioned the project’s collaboration with Colby to “test drug samples,” which helps researchers “learn more about the contaminants circulating in Maine's drug supplies.”

Both Yahoo News and Cannabis News mentioned Colby student researchers’ help with the analysis of Maine’s recreational cannabis’s estimated growth rate, which suggests that “it's not hard to figure out where the industry is headed.” A Mainebiz article discussing the cannabis marketplace included commentary by Michael Donihue ’79, the Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics, who pointed out that the recreational cannabis industry is “a small-business engine of economic growth” and that “it had a dramatic rise in just the first year.” 

Yahoo News ran a story on Colby’s dedication of its men’s basketball locker room after Matt Gaudet ’95. Gaudet said that, “It's very special to have my name on a plaque at such an amazing state-of-the-art athletic complex at such a prestigious college like Colby.” 

An article in the New York Times discussing the continued upgrading of Canada’s air defense system included commentary by Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations. “Death from the air, guaranteed on-time delivery” is how he described the invention of hypersonic missiles.

News that Colby students are volunteering under the Court Watch ME initiative has gained attention by Central Maine Newspapers and Maine Public. Winifred Tate, associate professor of anthropology, remarked that, “Volunteers have documented more than 100 arraignments in Kennebec County district courts” and that this “effort is especially important in Maine because most courts in the state don't keep online records. And most cases are settled through plea deals.”

In an article discussing caste discrimination in large tech companies, NBC News included  comments from Sonja Thomas, associate professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. “If you don’t have recognition of a form of discrimination that’s happening, there’s little recourse.” she pointed out. “You can’t even bring a complaint, and the burden of proof is always going to be on the survivor.” 

A story in the Boston Globe about this week's decision by the Supreme Court supporting religion in public life included commentary by Assistant Professor of Government, Nick Jacobs. While the ruling struck down a Maine law, Jacobs said he expected the decision would be "felt beyond the several thousand families directly affected in Maine."