Media Coverage

The New York Times published a major article on the Colby Museum’s Bob Thompson exhibition. The story, which appeared in the Sunday Arts & Leisure section, refers to the show as “a stunning look at a Black painter who looked to the old masters for inspiration; his bold attitude toward art history is summed up in the show’s title, This House Is Mine.”

Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was featured in Fortune’s “Eye on AI” column. In addition to including commentary from President Greene, who said that “the liberal arts need AI, but AI also needs the liberal arts,” Director Amanda Stent noted how the institute can foster multi-disciplinary collaboration that’s vital for making AI achieve its potential while side-stepping potential negative ramifications.

The Associated Press shared Colby’s announcement that added caste to its nondiscrimination policy. The AP story was picked up by a number of media outlets, including ABC News, Boston.com, Orlando.com, Britain's Daily Mail, the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, to name a few.

The Bangor Daily News, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed wrote about how Colby has added caste to its nondiscrimination policy. 

RT Insights spoke with the inaugural Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Director Amanda Stent about why she came to this role, what she’s most excited about, and how the institute will help benefit the future of AI across multiple disciplines. 

A solo show by painter and sculptor Jim Condron '92 was covered in the Baltimore Sun. The show is on view in the Scott Center at the Carroll Community College. Condron also has a two-person show at the Platform Project space in Brooklyn.

Mainebiz and the Portland Press Herald covered the announcement of the George G. Petrikas Financial Aid Fund, which will provide financial aid for area students attending Colby. “Increasing access for talented students from Maine, particularly those from our local communities, is extremely important to the College,” said Matt Proto, Colby's vice president and chief institutional advancement officer.

Inside Higher Ed covered the announcement of the Haynesville Project, which will award six newly tenured Colby professors $100,000. Alicia E. Ellis, associate professor of German and one of the six grantees, said the funding will be a “game changer when it comes to the depth of our research and how we bring students into that.”

The Morning Sentinel discussed the impacts of the pandemic on the job market for graduating seniors and spoke with Lisa Noble about changes DavisConnects has seen. “What has changed is that employers in those fields are being more aggressive about building relationships with students now,” Noble said.

A series of stories and briefs on Colby’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism were published by a wide range of media outlets. Highlights included an announcement in the Washington Post as well as a shout-out in the New York Times newsletter “The Morning.”