Media Coverage

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."

News that Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, Emeritus, and Ian Glasspool, research scientist, found evidence of the oldest wildfires ever detected was picked up by various media outlets. “The discovery adds to previous evidence, including analyses of pockets of fluid trapped in halite minerals formed during the Silurian, that suggests that atmospheric oxygen during that time approached or even exceeded the 21 percent concentration seen today.

ArtDaily reviewed the Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death exhibition, commenting that it “connects [Wyeth’s] sketches to [his] decades-long engagement with death as an artistic subject and places him in rare conversation with artists who also used self-portraiture to confront their mortality.”

Well+Good podcast invited Christopher Soto, associate professor of psychology, to talk about the reasons why so many people like to take various personality tests. He explained that, "I think the bottom line is that we're naturally curious about ourselves and we want to figure out what we're like as people and how we're different or similar to other people." 

The Marketplace Morning Report interviewed President David Greene on how the labor market is impacting internships and campus recruitment. Greene noted that, “Companies are recruiting at a level that we’ve never seen before” and that “the demand is high and the recruiting is hot right now.”

The Colby Musuem's Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death exhibition continued to generate attention from various media. Artbook referenced the just-opened exhibition, noting that the recently rediscovered and previously unpublished pencil drawings are “made all the more relevant by our ongoing experience of mortality during the pandemic” and that it “represents an important new subject in Wyeth's oeuvre: his own funeral.”