Media Coverage

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.”

The official naming of the Greene Block + Studios on Waterville’s Main Street was covered by the Portland Press Herald and network affiliates WABI-TV and WFVX-TV. In the stories, President Greene said the “boundless generosity and trust” of benefactors Peter and Paula Lunder was inspiring, and that being linked with them in this building was "the honor of a lifetime.”

Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, currently on view at the Colby College Museum of Art, received multiple major reviews and coverage last week. The exhibition was included in a Forbes list of "Top Arts Exhibitions" on college campuses, and it also received coverage and reviews in Frieze as well as the Washington Post.

The Portland Press Herald reviewed an exhibition on view at the Portland Media Center as part of the Freedom & Captivity Initiative, spearheaded by Colby faculty. Olivia Hochstadt '21 co-curated the exhibition and spoke with Bob Keyes about her experience. "It has been for me a process of breaking down my own mentality surrounding who is incarcerated and bringing it to a much more human level."