Media Coverage

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.

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.