Media Coverage

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.”

News that the arts collaborative on Main Street in Waterville will undergo renovations starting this week was covered by the Morning Sentinel. Despite the pandemic, President Greene feels it's important to move forward with this project. "Continuing the efforts on Main Street at a time when many other places are pulling back investments in their community is really important,” Greene told the Sentinel. “We need to be with Waterville in tough times and in good times, and putting this building forward at this most difficult moment is to me another opportunity to signal, in the strongest possible way, that our commitment to investing in Waterville and bettering the lives of the people here is going to continue.” WABI-TV also covered the opening in this report.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African American Studies and Sociology, has written an essay published by Religion News Service challenging the NFL's plan to play the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before its first game in September. Playing the song, often called the "Black national anthem," would be sacrilege, Gilkes writes. "NFL stadiums are white-owned spaces where cultural battles over the U.S. national anthem have already exposed our culture’s racial hatred, predatory power and institutional domination. 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is too sacred to be trotted out for public consumption at any such popular bread and circus event controlled by white 'owners.'"