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Zach Peckham, the Jennifer Jarling Forese Writer-in-Residence and a visiting instructor in creative writing, wrote a review for the Summer 2025 issue of the Chicago Review. Peckham reviewed the book Death Styles by Joyelle McSweeney. This review is one of many reviews, poems, and essays he has published.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Kaushik Tekur published an article in the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction titled "The Para-Lyric, (Non-)Performance, and Personhood." In the article, Tekur discusses two lyric poems—Mary Robinson’s "The Lascar” and William Wordsworth’s “Gipsies”—"to argue that they engage with what could be dubbed 'para-lyric,'" according to the article's abstract. Tekur is a scholar of police power, formalism, and the long 18th century.

The Boston Globe interviewed Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Director David Watts for a feature story about Colby’s AI leadership. The article points to Colby’s pioneering AI program, noting that the College was focused on the technology two years before the ChatGPT boom.

Véronique Plesch, the James M. Gillespie Professor of Art, edited the fall issue of the Maine Arts Journal on the theme of "Thinking Through Making." The issue offers an exploration of the creative process, with the contributors welcoming the reader not only into their studios, but also their minds, as they address the many ways in which making is a form of thinking. Plesch wrote the Introduction for the issue as well as an article for her "Art Historical Musings" column. In "Making, Thinking, Learning," she equates the creative process with decision-making and considers the ways in which art historians gain insights into artists’ thought processes and working methods. She shows how the subject matter or the medium leads artists to think in a certain manner and what lessons can be learned from the making. Finally, she looks at works that by being “a repository for thoughts” invite the viewer to accompany the artist in their mental processes. This essay offered her the opportunity to include several works by Sol LeWitt in the Colby College Museum of Art.

President David A. Greene gave an extensive interview for News Center Maine's popular 207 show on Waterville’s booming revitalization. The story focused on how institutions like Colby can make a significant difference in lifting up economically challenged areas, and it also highlighted the College's recently released Economic Impact Report.

Photographer and Professor of Art Gary Green will open an exhibition titled After Morandi, which he says is a visual conversation with the Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi, on Oct. 5. The exhibition of Green's photography will take place in Casa Morandi, where the painter lived and worked in the countryside outside Bologna, Italy, from Oct. 5, 2025, through Jan. 6, 2026. Green has published a book by the same name, After Morandi; limited copies will be available at the show.

 Roll Call interviewed and quoted the Marson-Muller-McNulty Professor of Government,  Dan Shea, about the Maine Democratic race.

BBC News interviewed Nicholas Jacobs, associate professor of Government, for an article about challenges facing U.S. farmers and rural America. The article was circulated and translated in publications across the globe. 

The Boston Globe published a feature story on Colby's science initiative and the major gift that the College received to support it. In the article, President David A. Greene noted how “it’s a great statement about the ongoing public support for higher education,” and that “it’s very unusual for a private college to be so committed to the public good.”

Luxury travel and lifestyle magazine Lux Nomade included Waterville and the Lockwood Hotel in a story about great American road trips this fall. The piece noted that the hotel’s prime location downtown “offers a unique inland Maine experience–especially appealing in the fall.”