Media Coverage

The Portland Press Herald shared photos of the first steel beams being put into place on the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville. “It’s going to go up really quickly,” said Vice President of Planning Brian Clark about the project, estimated to be finalized by the end of 2022.

Outside Magazine shared a video on their website featuring Steve Tatko '10, who works with the Appalachian Mountain Club to conserve more than 100,000 acres of land. Produced by Colby, the video shows a closer look at Tatko's life and work.

WABI-TV covered the largest academic gift to Colby, a $10-million agricultural-research grant from the USDA. Colby is one of 15 schools across the country to receive this funding.

Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, Emeritus and a congressional expert, weighed in on a Globe & Mail article about the politics surrounding the debt ceiling.

Art Daily posted Colby’s announcement on the groundbreaking for the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts. “Our hope is that in the future it will be the summer home to world-renowned arts organizations as part of the broader goal to make central Maine the cultural hub of Northern New England,” commented President Greene in the news release.

Alison Bates, assistant professor of environment studies, was quoted in TIME magazine for an article about offshore wind energy and the fishing industry. “We as a society have an equal share in what happens in ocean space,” Bates said. She also indicated that there’s a need to move quickly given the climate crisis is “already irreversible.”

The Portland Press Herald provided extensive coverage of the recent Greene Block + Studios opening. Two stories covered the front page of the Audience section and included a Q&A with Peter Lunder ’56, D.F.A. ’98 and Life Trustee Paula Lunder, D.F.A. ’98, as well as a feature on the new arts space with commentary from President Greene and the Colby Museum’s Carolyn Muzzy Director Jacqueline Terrassa.

Campus Technology interviewed the Davis Institute of Artificial Intelligence’s inaugural Director Amanda Stent on the importance of weaving AI into curriculum in liberal arts institutions. Computer Research News also shared the announcement of Stent’s hire.

“The 2021 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award will be awarded to eight journalists whose phone records were seized by the U.S. Department of Justice,” the Morning Sentinel reported. The annual Lovejoy Award honors journalists who have shown courage in reporting and writing.

Joseph Reisert, the Wiswell Jr. Professor of American Constitutional Law, appeared on the WIRED podcast a Geek's Guide to the Galaxy discussing how science fiction can help students learn political theory. “Science fiction enables us to try out, in literature, very different sets of social arrangements,” he says, “and through the medium of story, maybe even get beyond that reflexive, ‘It’s different so it must be bad,’ and sort of play out in our heads, ‘Well, could this work? What would that mean?’ I think fiction does that really well.”