Media Coverage

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!

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, speaking at Waterville's annual Martin Luther King Jr. event, encouraged attendees to acknowledge King’s "unfinished work in addressing what he called the 'triple evils'—poverty, racism and militarism—that prevent us from being a truly beloved community," the Morning Sentinel reported. “In order to reach the promised land, economic justice and racial justice must be achieved, and the nation must disavow and dismantle the military-industrial complex that glorifies and financially incentivizes violence,” Isaacs said.

Psychotherapist and forest therapy guide Zoë Kaplan Presley '97 was interviewed for The Oregonian newspaper’s outdoors podcast Peak Northwest on ways to find healing in the outdoors. Among her insights are bringing the "right intention, slowing down and being in the moment" as well as "you don't need an extraordinary view to experience awe in nature." 

The Portland Press Herald reached out to Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology, for an article asking Black Mainers to reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The insurrection in Washington and threats to Georgia official are all too familiar to Black Americans, she said. "‘Welcome to my world.’ This is what Black America has known forever.”

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology, was one of eight Mainers asked to reflect on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. “Basically, what is happening now is that the Black Lives movement is still dramatizing shameful conditions,” Gilkes said, noting that the fight for civil rights is still ongoing because problems such as poverty still exist. 

A paper coauthored by Jin Goh, assistant professor of psychology, was covered by UPI and other media outlets. The study finds that "women who don't fit female stereotypes of look or personality are perceived as less credible when lodging sexual harassment claims," UPI reports. Goh told UPI that study "participants were less likely to label these ambiguous scenarios as sexual harassment when the targets were non-stereotypical women compared with stereotypical women, despite the fact that both stereotypical and non-stereotypical targets experienced the same incident."