Media Coverage
| Picked-up by major national newspapers, a special weekend feature by The Associated Press on the South Solon Meeting House credited its renewed interest to a student-built website, which was created as part of a course designed by Professor and Chair of Art Véronique Plesch, who also serves on the landmark’s historical board. |
Fox News featured a Colby class led by James M. Gillespie Professor of Art, Véronique Plesch, focused on the South Solon Meeting House in Maine.
Interviewed for an article by TODAY, Andreas Waldkirch, the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, has been a leading voice in the national media’s coverage of tariffs. The Associated Press also tapped his international-trade expertise for a widely circulated piece that appeared in major outlets such as the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and ABC News, to name a few.
The Portland Press Herald did a feature story on Colby's young baseball team and how it's trying to duplicate last year's success. This past season, the Mules finished 29-12, with a 9-3 record in NESCAC play, and reached the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in the program's history.
| A TikTok initiative by Colby students promoting positive masculinity was featured in a story by Rolling Stone. Known as Sex Ed for Guys, the effort is based on research by Charles A. Dana Professor of Education Adam Howard, who noted that "the videos are providing really valuable information in really accessible ways." |
A review by the Wall Street Journal of the exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville, noted how "it's an oddly substantial exhibition—with a genuine keeper of a catalog—even though its contents are small."
| The Portland Press Herald published a front-page feature about the Colby women's hockey team beating Wilkes University to advance to the NCAA quarterfinals this weekend. The story noted how the Mules "struck quickly," and quoted head coach Holley Tyng, who said the team did an "outstanding job on continuing to grow and continuing to get better.” |
The Portland Press Herald reviewed the Colby Museum’s Radical Histories exhibition, featuring prints by Chicanx artists. On view through June 8, the review highlights how the collection reminds us of the role protest art plays in societal change.
VOGUE published a feature article on Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville.
| NBC's Rob Caldwell interviewed Maine playwright Bess Welden of Colby’s Performance, Theater, and Dance Department about the debut of her multi-award-winning play Madeleines. Now showing at Portland Stage through March 23. |