Media Coverage

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 Artbook referenced the just-opened exhibition, noting that the recently rediscovered and previously unpublished pencil drawings are “made all the more relevant by our ongoing experience of mortality during the pandemic” and that it “represents an important new subject in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.”

CNN spoke with Stephanie Owen, assistant professor of economics who studies the economics of education, about the difficulty some students experience obtaining scholarships and financial aid in college. She commented that, “The complexity inherent in the scholarship and financial aid process is actually a huge barrier to students applying to college and their families” since “colleges don't give out financial aid offers until after the student is accepted.”

Colby was included as a top 10 school in a list of “Best East Coast Colleges.” Based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, the list was produced by EDsmart, which provides information and resources about higher education institutions in the country.

Artforumpublished an extensive story on the recently discovered Funeral Group drawings by Andrew Wyeth. The article referenced the just-opened Andrew Wyeth: Life and Deathexhibition, noting that “attuned to the transformative possibilities of shared grief, art historian Tanya Sheehan has invited acquaintances and strangers to gather around Wyeth’s coffin at Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art.” The exhibition was also mentioned in articles by Art Fix Daily and Bookforum.