Media Coverage

Colby alumnus Ken Eisen ’73 was featured in a story about his role in making Waterville "the film hub that it is today." The piece highlighted how he helped create what is now the renowned Maine International Film Festival, and how Colby supported early efforts in shaping the city's film scene.

In a story about becoming the new director of Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, David Watts said he views “Colby as a leader in driving responsible AI development and usage by society,” and that he’s “excited about helping Colby expand how AI is applied, imagined, and regulated.”

In a piece about what to do in Boston and the surrounding area, the Boston Globe highlighted the Colby Museum's exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which recently opened. The article noted that the show is the first-ever touring survey of the artist's work that "looks to establish her in a canon that left her aside."

The Lockwood Hotel was named one of Travel + Leisure’s Top 10 Best New England Hotels of 2025 as part of the publication’s World’s Best 2025 Awards. The hotel placed sixth with a reader’s score of 94.13, placing the hotel among notable company.

In CNN and Politico, Dr. Nirav Shah, former CDC principal deputy director and now a visiting professor at Colby, called the CDC's decision to end the H5N1 bird flu emergency response a "reasonable step,” noting that it could easily be re-implemented if new human infections are reported.

In a Huffington Post article on whether or not AI hallucinates, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Tahiya Chowdhury, explained that AI solves problems using scalable algorithms, not brute force. When unfamiliar patterns arise, “their accuracy collapses,” she said, adding, “This is not hallucination or cognitive decline; the models were never reasoning in the first place.”

In a Portland Press Herald article, Dr. Nirav Shah, former top U.S. CDC official and current visiting professor at Colby, said the move to create new vaccine advisory panels is prudent under current conditions.

The Athletic reported that Greg Cronin ‘86 will serve as the head coach for the American Hockey League’s Iowa Wild.

News Center Maine’s “207” takes a closer look at the Colby Museum of Art’s new Bernard Langlais exhibition, Love Your Langlais: A Community Curates, now on view at the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.

Leading politics and policy publication The Hill called on Dan Shea, the Marson-Muller-McNulty Professor of Government, for an important article that previewed the 2026 Maine Senate races.