Media Coverage

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.

In a Boston Globe article about the challenges surrounding the admissions process due to the pandemic, President Greene commented on Colby's decision to increase its waitlist for the Class of ’25. He noted that while Colby’s applications increased, “everybody is trying to figure out how things will shake out” given that students can’t visit campus and that more institutions have gone test-optional.

Rodwell Mabaera '02, an assistant professor of medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, was profiled in Dartmouth Medicine. Mabaera, M.D.-Ph.D., who studied math and chemistry at Colby, is now working to "understand how the immune system interacts with cancer cells in tumors," the magazine reports. He's also involved with issues relating to diversity and inclusion at Dartmouth. “When we are able to sit at the table and talk about what we have in common, as Americans and as humans, while respecting our differences,” says Mabaera, “that’s, I think, when we can move mountains.”