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Professor of Art Véronique Plesch has been elected as a member of the Nominating Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art, or ICMA. The ICMA is based at the Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its mission "is to promote and support the study, understanding, and preservation of visual and material cultures produced primarily between ca. 300 CE and ca. 1500 CE in every corner of the medieval world. To this end the ICMA facilitates scholarship and education and sponsors public lectures, conferences, publications, and exhibitions."

Colby's Davis AI was featured in as Fast Company article on AI literacy.

Leading health information website WebMD turned to the expertise of Gail Carlson, director of Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and assistant professor of environmental studies, for an article about how forever chemicals impact mental health. According to Carlson, "some chemicals cause neurological changes" that can be "pathways of anxiety and depression."

NBC’s News Center Maine interviewed Professor of Art and Department Chair Véronique Plesch about the South Solon Meeting House, known for its striking floor-to-ceiling frescoes painted in the 1950s by artists from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Plesch has designed a course around the structure and describes it as one of her “favorite places in the world.”

Assistant Professor of English Onnesha Roychoudhuri performed live a story on a recent episode of The Moth Radio Hour. Her story, "Strangers on a Train," was part of the episode titled "Saving Graces" and will air on Maine Public Feb. 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. The story is about "the joy that comes from speaking up during fearful times," said Roychoudhuri. More specifically, it's about "how to shut down a bigot by singing 'Row Row Row Your Boat' and the most awkward high-five of my life."

A 2006 book by Raffael Scheck, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Chair in History, was mentioned in the recent The Guardian article "Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture.’" The article states that in Scheck's book Hitler’s African Victims, he describes "how the killing sprees of the Einsatzgruppen in the bloodlands of the east – shooting people by the edge of mass graves which the victims themselves had been forced to dig – was prefigured by the massacres in May and June 1940 of thousands of French African soldiers."

Colby's Fair Shot Fund program was featured in a story by NPR about making a college education more affordable for middle-income families. In the piece, President David A. Greene commented on how the program simplifies a financial aid process that has become “overly complex.” Additionally, one parent noted that she felt “the weight come off my shoulders” after learning about the initiative. 

President David A. Greene provided important commentary for a story in the Boston Globe about recent directives issued by the new administration. He noted how an increase in endowment taxes will cause "downstream harm," including to students, and that "shutting down America’s colleges to a global population would be devastating."

The Portland Press Herald published a special feature on Keepers of the Light, a collaboration between Associate Professor of Performance, Theater, and Dance Annie Kloppenberg and Portland Ballet. The performance, which includes a cohort of Colby student dancers and musicians, made its way to the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts this weekend and was also highlighted in the Boston Globe’s ‘Things to Do’ section.