Media Coverage

President David Greene joined CNBC's "Power Lunch" on July 10 to discuss Colby's plans to reopen the College this fall and to provide 85,000 tests to students and employees in the fall semester. "The idea that is so important about this is to actually be able to identify people who might be infected before they’re actually contagious. That allows us to then quarantine those people, and to contract trace, and to isolate other individuals as we need to," President Greene said. "And that’s going to really make a difference in terms of being able to ensure that when we have the virus on campus, because we’re sure we’ll have it at times, it won’t be spreading."  President Greene also discussed other safety measures Colby is putting into place, such as preventive measures, cleaning protocols, and securing a lease on a hotel for a year as a place for isolation to handle any potential spike in COVID-19 cases.

As the Senate race between Susan Collins and Sara Gideon heats up, Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, is frequently tapped for comment. Recent stories in which he adds his thoughts include: Public News Service, July 17 Washington Examiner, July 17    

The Wall Street Journal included Colby in its July 15 article titled "Universities’ Plan to Test Students for Covid-19 to Increase Demand on Testing Capacity," which discusses the possible strain on the supply of COVID-19 test kits as colleges prepare to open and offer extensive testing to their students and employees. "Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, detailed on June 30 a plan to conduct about 85,000 tests over its fall semester—nearly as many as its home state has done since the pandemic hit. The school’s testing program will be administered by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a biomedical research center, and would require students to be tested before arrival on campus and again three times in the opening weeks of the semester," the article states.

In a July 15 Globe and Mail article, Sandy Maisel, Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, commented on Joe Biden's strategy in the article "Biden is digging in Trump states, and using some of his rhetoric, too." The article notes that Biden is adopting some of the language Trump uses that appeals to white manufacturing workers. “The slice that Biden takes of that issue is much more of the progressive-left approach than of the ‘America First’ approach Trump used,'" Maisel, said. “And he is using an entirely different tone.”

Alejandra Ortiz, assistant professor of geology, was interviewed for an article titled "A Brighter Future for Coral Reef Islands" that appeared in Eos, a source of news and science for the American Geophysical Union. The article reports on new research that shows low-lying coral reef island may be more resilient to rising ocean levels than previously thought. If an island does survive, it doesn't mean it's necessarily habitable, said Ortiz, a coastal geomorphologist not involved in the study. "For houses and many other types of human infrastructure, waves washing over the island are 'the definition of destruction,'" she said. "I do firmly believe that the evidence shows that these landscapes, over the next hundred years, are resilient,” she said. “But if you say they’re going to look the same or they’re going to be resilient with humans living on them as they do now—that’s where things start to look more negative.”

Top chef Wylie Dufresne '92 was featured in a Darien Times article about the delivery of Du's Donuts to the Corbin District in Darien, Conn. "During tough times like the COVID-19 pandemic, people long for comfort food that is like a 'hug,'” Dufresne said. The idea to have Du's Donut's delivered to Darien came from Dufresne's friend David Genovese '89, who knew that Du's Donuts was struggling because it was forced to close temporarily during the early days of the pandemic. “God bless David for sending this to us, because it wasn’t an avenue I’d even considered,” Dufresne said of the new type of partnership with the Corbin District.

Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was quoted in a July 14 story in Vox titled "6 key Senate and House races to watch on Tuesday." With Maine being one of the races to watch, Maisel was commenting on the candidacy of Maine Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, the frontrunner in the race to unseat Senator Susan Collins. Maisel said that Gideon is "the candidate of everybody except for a small group of Bernie Sanders supporters.”

Colby's July 13 announcement that Jacqueline Terrassa will be the new Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art attracted broad media coverage. Among the outlets covering the story include: Art & Education ARTFIX daily artnet News Associated Press Mainebiz Portland Press Herald San Francisco Chronicle US News & World Report Washington Times  

Nikki-Guninder Singh, the Crawford Family Professor of Religion, was included in an India Times story about the Sikh community in the United States supporting development in the Indian region of Punjab. Singh was one of 100 eminent Sikh leaders from across the country who participated in a virtual meeting with India's Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Singh Sandhu about developing Punjab. The article noted that Singh "pointed out that there was ignorance about Guru Nanak in the country, asserting that it should be the top priority of the Sikh community."    

Head Football Coach Jack Cosgrove commented on the possibility of a football season this fall in a Morning Sentinel article titled "Some college football programs in state exploring a spring season." Cosgrove, starting his third season at Colby, said he's pessimistic about having a fall season. "I eat the positive pie all the time, but it doesn’t look good,” said Cosgrove. “Throughout the NESCAC, there’s a lot of apprehension to returning to classrooms and fields this fall.”