Media Coverage

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."

Musher and adventurer Blair Braverman '11 gave NPR four "pro tips" for staying warm in this lighthearted but helpful piece. Her recommendations? Create an air bubble, wear good shoes, take snacks as well as breaks, and get cozy. "Just embrace winter, go for the whole thing," Braverman says. "There's a reason that the places with the coldest climates also have real cultures of coziness. It's the balance of being outside in winter, you really enjoy this coziness all the more."

Colby’s Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Sandy Maisel was part of a story in The Globe and Mail on the Electoral College and its past, present, and future role in choosing U.S. presidents. Referenced as a “political scientist who is perhaps the leading student of Maine politics,” Maisel discussed how most people, including experts like himself, don’t know who their electors are.

Rabbi Rachel Isaacs was the subject of the first article in the "Power of Faith" series by Central Maine Newspapers. Isaacs, who is also Colby's Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond Chair in Jewish Studies, said the pandemic increases reasons to be thankful to God. “I think that the more vulnerable we are, the more we need community and we need God," Isaacs said. "I’ve been really impressed ... how people want to connect so much more to faith and community now more than ever.”

Professor of English Debra Spark spoke with the Portland Press Herald's Joan Silverman about her new book, And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing. In the book, Spark "combines memoir, problem solving and lessons on the writer’s craft," Silverman writes. "Vivid, warm and entertaining, the book includes references to a wide range of modern literature."

Colby's Biology Department has loaned an ultra-cold freezer to the State of Maine for storage of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Portland Press Herald reports. The freezers “could play an important part in ensuring that Maine has adequate capacity to store Pfizer vaccine doses upon their arrival in Maine,” said Robert Long, Maine CDC spokesman.