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Waterville was included in a story on Today with Hoda & Jenna about last-minute spring break destinations. The segment (starting around the 2:50 mark) had a nice shout-out to Colby, referenced the Lockwood Hotel, and noted how the city is "artsy" and "the greatest new little destination."

CentralMaine.com wrote a feature story on the exciting success that Colby’s Club Hockey team is having this year. The article highlighted how the young team currently has a 14-2-1 record, and that they’ll be competing soon in the American Collegiate Hockey Association national championship tournament.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jen Coane has won the 2023-24 Psychology Mid-Career Mentor Award from the Council on Undergraduate Research's Psychology Division. Coane, who studies cognitive psychology, memory, and cognitive aging, was selected for her success in incorporating research in both classroom and laboratory settings. She has authored 18 peer-reviewed articles and 41 poster presentations with undergraduate coauthors. As the awardee, Coane will deliver a virtual presentation through the council at 2 p.m. on March 25.

Media across the state covered how the Colby community and Waterville's Beth Israel congregation harvested ice for the synagogue's soon-to-open ritual cleansing bath. Many students participated in the event, and according to the Dorothy "Bibby" Levine Alfond Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Rachel Issacs they did "amazing work," and she had "tears of absolute joy" from the community coming together.

The Climate Reality Check, co-created by Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson with Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment, received significant media attention. The new tool, which evaluated whether Oscar-nominated films reflect our present climate reality, was covered by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few.

Gail Carlson, director of Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and assistant professor of environmental studies, was quoted in a WebMD article about lowering your exposure to forever chemicals. “It’s hubris to think we can dump chemicals into the environment and that they won’t contaminate our food sources," she noted in the story.

Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Sheets published a paper in the journal Clinical Psychological Science titled "A Brief Group Social-Belonging Intervention to Improve Mental-Health and Academic Outcomes in BIPOC and First-Generation-to-College Students." The paper reported on a brief social-belonging intervention that significantly reduced risk for depression over the first two years of college and specifically reduced risk for participants experiencing more discrimination. The research was conducted at Colby, with the brief intervention led by Colby student research assistants.

Jennifer Yoder, the Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies, has published a new book, World War II Memory and Contested Commemorations in Europe and Russia (Oxford University Press, 2024). "Using a comparative, conceptually original approach, the book identifies the actors who manipulate memory surrounding wartime anniversaries, such as the bombing of Dresden and ceremonies to honor fallen soldiers and fascist collaborators," said Yoder, who has special interests in German politics, remembrance and reckoning after communism, and borderlands in Europe. This is her third book.

President David A. Greene was featured in a story about Colby's successful community-building work in Waterville. In the piece, which was picked up by a range of media, he noted that higher ed institutions “have a moral obligation to contribute to the betterment of their communities” and that this work can “help change the narrative of higher education.”