Media Coverage

Pianist Thomas Deng '20 was featured in Classic FM about his recreation of the third movement of Chopin’s Second Concerto using an electronic MIDI keyboard. Associate Professor of Music Jon Hallstrom was also quoted in the article, saying, “it’s really quite amazing, both from the musical and from the technological standpoint.”

The Crawford Family Professor of Religion Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh was quoted in articles published by Vox and NBC news about recent hate crimes committed against Sikh Americans. “We have very warped notions of the Sikhs," commented Singh. "To know about Sikh tradition in schools and colleges, Sikh art, Sikh films, Sikh music — I want it to be promoted everywhere.”    

Assistant Professor of History Sarah Duff was quoted in the Nature news story "'The damage is total': fire rips through historic South African library and plant collection." The piece brought together scholars to discuss the recent fire at the University of Cape Town that destroyed a part of the university's main library and special collections. “This archive is special for all sorts of reasons, and for me, it’s because it includes collections which provide a record of the ordinary lives of ordinary people in the area — from working-class children to Black students attending night school,” said Duff in the article. “We lose that texture of everyday life and struggles with a catastrophe like this."

The Portland Press Herald shared the news of an anonymous $2.8-million donation to Colby designated for in-state student financial aid and an incentive for Maine students to apply. "Financial aid is a huge component in students being able to make that decision," said Matt Proto, vice president of enrollment and communications.

“If liberal arts colleges intend to survive, changes are coming. Why not get out in front as Colby College is doing? Mix bold ideas into the core, and prove the relevance.” That’s a quote from a column on Colby’s AI initiative in the tech outlet Diginomica. The piece also included an informative interview with Provost Margaret McFadden.

A major review in Forbes of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, currently at the Colby College Museum of Art, referenced the show as “an extraordinary early Lichtenstein retrospective.” According to the reviewer, the exhibition, which originated at Colby, is something "every aficionado of Lichtenstein’s Pop paintings should see” and that they should also “read the superlative catalogue."

CBS News included Colby in a story on the "Hardest Colleges to Get Into in 2021." The piece references the increase in applications that many institutions experienced this year and how acceptance rates were impacted by that change.

Josephine Liang '14, a social justice entrepreneur focusing on food inequities in London, was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Europe 2021 list and was a featured honoree in the Social Impact category. Liang is cofounder of Dare to Care Packages, which during the pandemic distributed "weekly care packages for those that were not on the national support list" Forbes reported. 

A Forbes magazine article titled “How Passengers with Disabilities Can Drive the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution” covers an app co-created by Colby’s Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stacy Doore. The Autonomous Vehicle Assistant, “which was awarded a $300,000 research development prize earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Transport[ation], is an app-based system intended to help disabled passengers negotiate all stages of an autonomous vehicle journey based on ridesharing.”

“What I really love is to see how Colby College is realizing the importance of engaging with downtown Waterville, and vice versa,” said Susan T. Rodriguez, lead architect for the Paul J. Schupf Art Center told the Morning Sentinel. The article highlights the new building, which will be a hub for the arts in downtown Waterville.