Media Coverage

“A truly inclusive environment is to the benefit of everybody,” said Jacqueline Terrassa, the Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby Museum of Art, in the Portland Press Herald article "New faces, fresh perspectives leading Maine museums." Terrassa, a Puerto Rican, is one of five new directors of color leading prominent Maine art or cultural institutions. "If we create room where the 6 percent feel they belong and they have ownership and voice," Terrassa told the Press Herald, "it is to the benefit of the rest.” 

The Central Maine Growth Council has named Josh Kim '22 its 2020 Emerging Leader of the Year, the Morning Sentinel reports. Kim, an entrepreneur who founded the startup The Cubby, is the first college student to receive the award. "Josh is an example of the region’s brilliant young talent, local ingenuity, and an emerging cluster of software development tech startups and innovators in downtown Waterville," said Garvan Donegan, CMGC's director of planning, innovation, and economic development.

An article in the New Hampshire Union Leader titled "Tapping your network: Grads reach out to alumni for jobs" includes an extensive section about Colby's Pay It Northward initiative. The article features Eric Post '06, who hired two Colby graduates to work at ITR Economics, where Post is a senior economist and econ manager. "When you get interconnections, it takes some of the risk off the table from an employer perspective and gives you greater comfort that you are getting the person as advertised.” Post said.

Chris Myers Asch, a visiting instructor in the History Department, was quoted in the op-ed "D.C.’s Black churches will remain a ‘beacon of light’," written in the aftermath of the Dec. 12 pro-Trump rally in the nation's capital. Black churches “are a place where Black people can make their grievances heard, both to the city and, because it’s D.C., to the nation," Asch said. "They are important sites for community-building and political organizing in black communities throughout our country.”

Insider Advantage Georgia gives an overview of the acting career of Will Hochman '14, who is a new face on the CBS drama Blue Bloods. Highlights of Hochman's career include a role in Broadway's The Sound Inside and in the film Let Him Go.

The website Hodinkee reached out to poet and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Arisa White to lend her thoughts to the article "The Year that Warped Time." How did 2020 shape her sense of time? "Class time became a space for contemplation, to sit and pay attention to how we were languaging this moment, how the sound bites that we were constantly hearing were hitting up against our own bodies," she said. 

Colby was one of several Maine institutions that loaned an ultra-cold freezer to the Maine CDC for storage of COVID-19 vaccines, the Morning Sentinel reports. “We try to work cooperatively with (Maine CDC)," said Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer Doug Terp, "and this was just an extension of that partnership.” 

Entrepreneur Nick Rimsa '13 talked to Mainebiz about his startup Tortoise Labs, a software design and development studio based in Waterville. Rimsa's company is "developing software with a focus on rapid prototyping and helping clients at all business stages to design and implement research strategies and tactics."

The Colby Economic Outlook report was the subject of articles in media statewide, including the Portland Press Herald, the Bangor Daily News, and Mainebiz. The student researchers predict that by the middle of 2021, Maine could experience a strong economic recovery—if the pandemic is brought under control. “If you want to fix the economy, you have to get a handle on the pandemic,” said Michael Donihue '79, the Herbert E. Wadsworth 1892 Professor of Economics, who oversaw the students and the project.

In its recent "Acquisitions of the Month" article, Apollo, the International Art Magazine, included the Colby Museum of Art's recent acquisition of prints from Jacob Lawrence’s Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. "Few complete sets of these prints survive, but one has now been donated to the Colby College Museum of Art by its long-time benefactors Peter and Paula Lunder."