Media Coverage

Jim Ryan 14, who raced for Colby as a student, has appeared in Warren Miller films in the past. Now, he's convinced the filmmaker to turn his lens on Ryan's hometown ski area, Killington. The Mountain Times explains Ryan's role in a Dec. 18 story titled "Killington skier Jim Ryan helps bring Warren Miller film crew home."

In an unusual pairing, James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, was interviewed for the Denver Art Museum's podcast on Claude Monet. In the episode, titled "Beyond Monet: You Can Smell it in the Paintings," Fleming "closely examines Monet's paintings of snowy landscapes and talks about how the artist captured the humid haze of Venice and the 'pea soup' smog of London.

Colby's announcement that chocolatier Bixby & Co. will be opening a store and café in Waterville was covered by the Morning Sentinel Dec. 17.  "Bixby & Co., the Rockland-based chocolate maker, is set to open an artisan chocolate cafe and store this spring on Main Street in downtown Waterville, but the company is looking to bring more than sweets to town," reporter Molly Shelly wrote. "It also seeks to provide vision, a commitment to Maine entrepreneurship and a desire to grow in a thriving setting." Other media outlets covering the story include: Mainebiz, Dec. 17 Bangor Daily News, Dec. 17 92 Moose Radio, Dec. 17

Multiple news sources are running stories about where personalities come from and why they're all so different. The articles cite Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto, who studies the "Big Five" personality traits. "Every personality trait is a continuous dimension. You can be very high or very low, and most people fall somewhere in between," Soto said. These sources have run stories: Live Science, Dec. 15, 2019 Medical Daily, Dec. 16, 2019

Recently released findings by Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, were covered at Phys.org, as provided by the National Science Foundation. "New research led by Colby College geologist Robert Gastaldo has revealed the most definitive proof to date that the extinctions did not occur at the same time. The findings, published in the journal PALAIOS, have implications for the impact of a possible future biodiversity crisis driven by climate change and a warming planet," Phys.org said. Archeology News Network also covered the story in a Dec. 11, 2019, blog post. GeologyPage.com covered the story Dec. 15, 2019.

In an essay in Guernica titled "Anatomy of a Successful Campus Talk," Assistant Professor of English Aaron Hanlon discusses a recent campus visit by former Maine Governor Paul LePage and ways that campuses can make the most of a "less than admirable speaker." Hanlon issue isn't with bringing conservative speakers to campus, but rather with a format that doesn't allow for a true exchange of ideas. "This format favors the unidirectional expressions of visiting speakers, who get to orchestrate a speech performance while everyone else remains silent upon pain of punishment. This way of doing things doesn’t suit the putative purpose of campus talks—to inform and engage—much less the limited value of bringing a high-profile bigot or demagogue to subject their views to scrutiny," he wrote.

Maine Public's podcast The Pulse featured Professor of Government Anthony Corrado for a segment titled "Who Is Paying For All Those Political Ads?" In the Nov. 29 episode, Corrado, a campaign finance expert, gave a primer on dark money groups, their tactics, and how they're operating in Maine.

The Nov. 25 topping off ceremony for Waterville's Lockwood Hotel was covered by these outlets: Mainebiz, Nov. 25 Morning Sentinel, Nov. 25 WFVX-TV22 Bangor, Nov. 25 WABI-TV5 Bangor, Nov. 25    

An op-ed by Charles Lawton in the Portland Press Herald's "Maine Voices" series highlights Colby's community investments as a model for growth across Maine. Lawton, a member of the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission, notes Colby's 20-percent growth in employees, its $176-million investment in facilities and equipment, and its economic impact on Waterville as examples of the College's strategy for growth. "Success requires having both an attractive academic institution and an attractive community – not merely a place where recruits will want to work, but also a place where their families will want to settle and build lives," he writes.

Maine's Second Congressional District will be one of the most hotly contested races in 2020, according to Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, who told the Lewiston Sun Journal that "there is no congressional district that is more competitive in the entire nation.” The article, also aired by WGME-TV13, reported, "People say that races in small states like Maine aren’t that big a deal, Maisel said, 'but here’s a district everyone is going to be paying attention to.'”