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New research from a team of scientists led by Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, emeritus, received worldwide attention. The discovery of fossils of 350-million-year-old trees that were unlike anything we’ve ever seen was covered by hundreds of leading media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, and Newsweek.
The Portland Press Herald did a feature story on Colby hockey player Jayden Grier ’26, whose father, Mike Grier, was a former NHL player and now serves as general manager for the San Jose Sharks. In the story, Jayden Grier said that he’s “had a good start to the year," and that he wants “this team to be remembered—I want to help put banners up here.
A story about colleges better engaging with their hometowns included commentary from President David A. Greene about Colby’s work with Waterville. In the article, he noted that higher ed has been losing the trust of the public because it “often seems more apart from their communities than a part of their communities," and that building trust is key to successfully working together.
Amanda Stent, director of Colby's Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, provided insights for CIO Magazine on minimizing the climate impact of AI initiatives. Stent suggested how the AI race sometimes eclipses the cost to the environment, with some companies saying they want to be sustainable, but also prioritizing “the excellence of their AI."
Assistant Professor of Biology Suegene Noh and six previous students published a paper in the open access journal Evolution Letters about the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. The amoebas are predators of soil bacteria but some also host symbiotic Paraburkholderia bacteria. Noh and her team used fitness comparisons of native vs. novel host and symbiont pairings to understand the evolutionary forces affecting facultative symbiotic relationships. They also showed that P. bonniea symbionts can spread to new amoeba hosts when hosts aggregate together during the social stage of their life cycle, and that less virulent P. bonniea strains are more successful at this horizontal transmission.
Culture and entertainment publication Paste highlighted the Lockwood Hotel and Waterville in a story about great ways to experience New England. The story referenced the hotel and area as the quintessential New England escape, noting that the “inland college town has become a hub for art and culture.”
Status Pending, a new collection of poetry by Professor of English and Creative Writing Adrian Blevins, received a positive review by the Portland Press Herald, which noted that while the “subject matter is serious, the language is often playful."
Colby College's recent Rural Voter Survey was featured in USA Today. The poll, which explored how rural Americans feel about the upcoming presidential election, provided insightful data and complements research in the new book The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America by Assistant Professor of Government, Nick Jacobs, and Professor of Government, Dan Shea.
In a Nature news feature about the UN's climate loss-and damage fund, Stacy-ann Robinson, associate professor of environmental studies, was quoted, drawing attention to the importance of the fund for the most vulnerable countries. In the article, Robinson called for attention to be placed on non-economic loss and damage as "lives, culture and livelihoods will be lost."
Colby’s new data science major was included in a story by Inside Higher Ed on the growing popularity of the degree. In the article, Associate Professor of Statistics Jim Scott noted that while a growing statistics program may not be an obvious fit at Colby, it’s the College’s “liberal arts focus that makes it a place where data science can thrive.”