Media Coverage

Ben Tuff '03 became the first person to swim the 19 miles between Block Island and Jamestown, R.I., nonstop and without a wetsuit, the Providence Journal reported. Tuff raised almost $100,000 for the Rhode Island nonprofit Clean Ocean Access. How was it? "A little cold, actually," Tuff said.

“It’s a double invisibility that they receive,” Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, the Crawford Family Professor of Religion, told NBC for a story about hate crimes against Sikhs following the recent announcement that the gunman in the FedEx shooting in Indianapolis was not motivated by hate.

The Washington Examiner interviewed Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, Emeritus, Sandy Maisel about President Biden's approval rating with the Democratic Party. "I think he needs to upset [the Left] somewhat if he is going to get moderate Democrats, much less any Republicans, to support him," Maisel said.

The Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center was covered by a number of architectural and facility-focused publications, including ArchDaily, High Profile, and New England Real Estate Journal. “This project is crisp and welcoming in its design, light-filled and open in its presentation, and carefully considered in every detail to make for an exceptional experience for each and every member of the Colby community,” President David A. Greene commented in the stories.

Vice President and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics Mike Wisecup was interviewed by Business of College Sports on his career path and how he applies his experience as a Navy Seal to his role at Colby. The article, titled "Lessons from a Navy Seal Turned DIII Athletic Director," highlights Wisecup's leadership and the new Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center.

"This will be the fastest pool in New England,” Mike Wisecup, vice president and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics, told News Center Maine, referring to Colby's new pool in the Harold Alfond Athletic and Recreation Center. As Maine's only Olympic-sized Myrtha pool, it's "designed to wash away waves when swimmers swim one way down the pool" after they turn, allowing for faster times. Colby's pool was also recently featured in Swimmer's Daily.

The Morning Sentinel covered the recent appointment of Matt Proto as Colby's vice president and chief institutional advancement officer. "Proto joined Colby in 2015 and had most recently been vice president for enrollment and communications and dean of admissions and financial aid," the Sentinel reported.

Upcoming community events with the Lunder Institute for American Art's inaugural resident fellows, Jose Barrionuevo and Adriane Herman, were noted by the Morning Sentinel. "For Jacqueline Terrassa, director of the Colby College Museum of Art, the events are the culmination of much planning and work ... to make the processes behind art more visible and transparent," the Sentinel reported.

The New Yorker reviewed the Colby College Museum of Art's previous exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948–1960. The exhibition, which originated at Colby, "reminds us of something we tend to lose sight of when we get caught up in the critical business of trying to situate Pop in an art-history genealogy, or to unpack it as social critique, which is that Pop art is funny," Louis Menand writes.

WABI-TV covered a series of current construction projects occurring across campus. "What’s happening now this summer is a fundamental transformation of this campus," said Brian Clark, vice president of planning told WABI-TV.