Media Coverage
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USA Today
A USA Today story about Oregon considering secession cited research by Colby Assistant Professor of Government Nick Jacobs.
Central Maine News
Colby's women's lacrosse and men's baseball teams received attention in Central Maine News for making it into their NCAA Division III tournaments. Go Mules!
Boston Globe
The Boston Globe published a feature story on the Buck Lab's Climate Reality Check, co-developed by Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and supported by Colby students. A similar concept to the Bechdel-Wallace Test, the tool evaluates climate change in popular recent films.
Portland Press Herald
In 2019 Sarah Joliat and her son helped launch an ice hockey program in Waterville for the intellectually and developmentally disabled. Colby helped support the program during the pandemic, now, it is expanding across the state. Read the story in the Portland Press Herald.
New York Times
Research by Ian Glasspool, a postdoctoral fellow and paleobotanist at Colby, was featured in a story by the New York Times. The article looked at his work involving ancient charcoal and how it's helping scientists understand how wildfires shaped—and were shaped by—climate change long ago.
Boston Globe
In a Boston Globe review of the Colby Museum's The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury, critic Murray Whyte noted that "every piece in the exhibition is a monument" to the artist, and just "pick one from the astonishing array of riches here, really, and you’ll see what I mean."
Fast Company
Colby’s Buck Lab for Climate and Environment published research this week using a new tool called the Climate Reality Check, a project co-led by Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and supported by Colby students who evaluated climate change in popular films. It was covered by various media, including the Los Angeles Times, the Portland Press Herald, and Fast Company, which noted the findings are “bound to raise eyebrows throughout the industry."
Central Maine News
Central Maine News produced a photo essay of the final rehearsal of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, which was performed by the Colby Symphony Orchestra and Choirs. The Masterwork concert at the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts "drew capacity crowds" and involved a combined ensemble of 170 students and community members.
New Scientist
New Scientist featured research by Josh Martin, assistant professor of biology, who identified an anatomical oddity in the Australian leaf-planking praying mantis species: a bump projecting from their chests that’s “the world’s weirdest tongue.”
Central Maine News
CentralMaine.com published a short piece about the Colby baseball team hitting a historic mark when it secured the best season in program history.