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Professor of English and Creative Writing Adrian Blevins was interviewed by the Adroit Journal, an American literary magazine and arts nonprofit. Her conversation with Kevin Prufer covered a range of topics relating to poetry, literature, teaching, and her most recent book and fourth collection of poems, Status Pending. "Good poems contradict the STEM fact of our actual existential aloneness with what we might call the miracle of articulation," Blevins said. "The feeling you should get after reading a good poem is, well, thank God somebody finally found a way to say that."
In a Financial Times article about how Apple is moving to bring generative AI to its iPhones, Amanda Stent, director of Colby's Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, spoke about the company’s language model Ferret and what makes the technology “so exciting.”
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Elizabeth McGrath was featured in several science publications, including SciTechDaily, for her role in a discovery on how early galaxies look more like noodles. "We're very excited about these early trends," said McGrath, who is working with other researchers on analyzing data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Assistant Professor of Government, Nicholas F. Jacobs, has continued to provide analysis to the national media on various political news stories relative to the 2024 election, top coverage includes the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Boston Globe.
The Colby Museum’s exhibition, The World Outside: Louise Nevelson At Midcentury, topped the Boston Globe’s recent list of 10 compelling winter art shows, noting that it’s “as significant a survey as Nevelson has had in years.
James R. Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus, provided insight for an article in PolitiFact, a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials, about the history of climate change.
A day of service at Colby to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. was the focus of a feature story by the Morning Sentinel. The piece highlighted how Colby students, faculty, and staff came together to help a local homeless shelter, noting that the College leads a wide range of service projects in the area throughout the year.
Associate Professor of Anthropology Winifred Tate, who leads the Maine Drug Policy Lab at Colby, provided commentary for a USA TODAY story about a congressional hearing on fentanyl. In the article, she said that legislation to reduce fentanyl deaths must “focus on the people who are actually dying.”
Atmospheric scientist James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Emeritus, was featured in Forbes, for his expertise on cloud seeding.
An article in Vox about OpenAI’s new GPT storefront included commentary from Amanda Stent, director of Colby’s Davis Institute for AI, who said that “companies that haven’t figured out how to embed their chatbots in other verticals are going to die.”