Media Coverage

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.

In a piece titled "The ski wax industry is working to leave PFAS behind," NPR's Marketplace interviewed Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson about her work identifying fluorochemicals, also called PFAS and used in ski wax. "What we found was that the snow at the start line was extraordinarily contaminated," she said. Carlson also advocated for a ban on fluorochemicals in ski wax, which in part led to Maine passing a law "directing industries to move away from all kinds of unnecessary PFAS uses by 2030, including ski wax," Marketplace reported. The study was also featured in the Portland Press Herald.

Maine Public interviewed Professor of Economics Michael Donihue about his economic analysis of Maine's new recreational marijuana industry during its first year of legal operations. In the story, Donihue said he was surprised by the rate of sales growth, which increased an average of 20 percent every month, and that the industry supported some 900 direct and indirect jobs.

Media took notice of the Colby Museum of Art’s acquisition of a work by American artist Faith Ringgold. Stories in The Art Newspaper and Hyperallergic highlighted the news and included commentary from the museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director Jacqueline Terrassa, who noted that it was a “rare opportunity to acquire a story quilt by one of the most important, influential, and courageous artists of our time.” The news was also shared by Art Daily, Art News, and Culture Type.

The Portland Press Herald shared updates on the construction of the Paul J. Schupf Art Center. What the Herald calls the “cornerstone of downtown Waterville’s rebirth” is expected to open in early December, with art galleries, cinema, teaching space, and a caf​​é.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson will be the Colby commencement speaker for 2022, reported the Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald. Commencement will take place on May 22, and other featured speakers will include artist Jamie Wyeth and Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.