Media Coverage

The spring opening of the Waterville Seed Library, which was created by students involved in Colby’s Office of Civic Engagement, was covered by CBS affiliate WABI-TV. The story referenced how the program is “a free public resource providing access to seeds for all community members.”

The Bangor Daily News published a story on Colby’s recent Watson Fellow winner Jordan McClintock ’22, who’s one of 40 fellows from colleges across the U.S. In the article, Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies, noted the selection committee “was unanimously impressed with McClintock’s proposal because she weaved in her personal experiences and recognized the importance of displacement and health intersecting in today’s world.”

Colby’s economic analysis of Maine’s new recreational marijuana industry continued to draw attention, including generating coverage by MarketWatch as well as in Politico’s Morning Cannabis Newsletter. One of the stories quoted Colby’s Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor in Economics Michael Donihue, who noted that because small businesses are “an important part” of the industry’s growth, the economic effects are “more widely distributed.”

Local media wrote about how Waterville’s revitalization was the reason a new café and market is opening in the city. The story reported that new businesses are coming “during what many are calling Waterville’s renaissance” and referenced how “millions of dollars are being invested downtown by Colby” and others. “I can feel the energy downtown,” commented the café owner, and “it’s wonderful.”

The Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship was highlighted in a story by Impact Entrepreneur about social entrepreneurship programs. In the article, Trustee Emeritus Todd Halloran ’84 and Assistant Professor of Economics Yang Fan discussed how the “benefits of entrepreneurship training go beyond the ability to launch a venture,” and that the lab will “give students the chance to apply what they discuss theoretically in class.”

Crawford Family Professor of Religion Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh was honored by the city of Fresno, Calif., which proclaimed March 26 as “Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh Day,” the Morning Sentinel reported.

The Morning Sentinel announced that the George J. Mitchell International Lecture series returned to Colby with an in-person event featuring Gayle E. Smith, an expert on global development and global health security. The lecture series is hosted by Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and has been in existence for nearly 15 years.

The Morning Sentinel reported that Colby’s softball team is “heating up at the right time.” After sweeping UMaine-Farmington, the team has won five of its last six games. “Right now they’re seeming to find a better lineup and a better rhythm and flow throughout the game. I’m excited about that,” Head Coach Terren Allen said.

The Morning Sentinel spoke with Nick Jacobs, assistant professor of government, about recent efforts made by the state of Maine to issue environmental amendments. Of the three amendments that are still moving forward, Jacobs said that “constitutional amendments have the advantage of carrying more symbolic weight than a law and can be a way of overcoming gridlock. But there is a downside to that as well.”

CNN turned to Colby’s William R. Cotter Distinguished Teaching Professor of Government Ken Rodman for a story on Ukraine having to negotiate with a world leader who could be a war criminal. “You want to hold people accountable and end the culture of impunity,” but ending conflicts can also require “negotiating with people with bloody hands,” he said in the story.