Media Coverage

An article in Mainebiz highlights the dramatic changes on one block of Waterville’s Main Street that in part is being driven by Colby. In the story, Vice President of Planning Brian Clark talks about how bringing older buildings back to life, building new ones, and the activity that it spurs "puts us [Waterville] in a position of strength."

USA Hockey magazine highlighted the generous gifts from Trustees Jack O’Neil ’77 and Tim O’Donnell ’87 to name the ice rink in the new Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center in honor of legendary Colby hockey coach Jack Kelley. “Ask anyone … and they’d tell you that Jack Kelley is Colby men’s hockey,” commented O’Neil in the page-11 story.  

Colby's announcement of the establishment of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was picked up by Philanthropy News Digest. "Scheduled to open in the fall, the first cross-disciplinary AI institute at a U.S. liberal arts college will also support the hiring of six faculty experts in disciplines ranging from computer science and genomics to sociology and English literature," the article reports.

Vicki Lynn Ferrini '95, a senior research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has been named to the Explorers Club inaugural EC50 Program, Forbes reported. The program recognizes 50 explorers, including 21 women. Ferrini's "research interests lie at the intersection of ocean exploration, seabed mapping, and characterization. She has participated in more than 30 expeditions using ships and submersibles in remote unexplored parts of the ocean," according to Forbes. 

An Associated Press story on Colby’s dynamic new Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was picked up by a wide range of media, including U.S. News & World Report, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Houston Chronicle, Washington Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few.

President David A. Greene told the Boston Globe that “we need to have a democratization of AI" in its article covering Colby's announcement of the establishment of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Even though AI and machine learning programs are based at large engineering schools, the field needs the contributions of those educated in the liberal arts. "It needs to be moved to different types of colleges,” Greene said. 

The Art Newspaper wrote an extensive article about William Tsiaras ’68, P’03, a photography collector who recently donated the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection to the Colby College Museum Art. As a member of the Colby Museum Board of Governors and a former chair, Tsiaras "really put the idea on the table that the museum needed to have a collection of photography,” Colby Museum’s director Jacqueline Terrassa told the Art Newspaper.

An extensive article by the Morning Sentinel highlighted Colby projects in downtown Waterville. The opening of the Lockwood Hotel and its restaurant, Front & Main, the completion of the Arts Collaborative, new retail businesses, and planning for the Paul J. Schupf Arts Center are among the projects slated for 2021. “Waterville’s moving while a lot of other places are holding steady,” said Brian Clark, Colby's vice president of planning.

Colby's announcement of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was covered by the Portland Press Herald. "The institute is believed by the administration to be the first and only of its nature at a small U.S. liberal arts school," the PPH reported. President David A. Greene said that people educated in liberal arts have tools to understand the ethics of AI, and can help “develop AI in a way that could be for the good.”

Cinda Jones '90, president of the W. D. Cowls, Inc., Land Company and developer of the Mill District in North Amherst, Mass., won Business West’s Massachusetts' Top Entrepreneur Award for her work envisioning and creating a new town center in North Amherst. Jones was cited in the news magazine’s top ten change-making events of the past decade!