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Forbes covered a conference on place-based innovation and economic growth that was hosted by the Council on Competitiveness and included a presentation by President Greene.

A story about the strength of the hotel industry in Maine highlighted the Lockwood Hotel and its role in revitalizing downtown Waterville.

Neil Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, presented a talk at the annual Public Safety Summit, held April 21-23 at Harvard University. Gross talked about his new book, Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture, to a group of 75 police chiefs and other officials from big and medium-sized cities. The book's premise, as he writes in the introduction, is that policy and culture changes are vital to reforming police departments. Each attendee was given a copy of Gross's book to take with them.

Colby researchers are coauthors of the recent article "Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia" published in the journal Scientific Reports. More than three million square kilometers of the Asian elephant’s historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries, the report from an international scientific team led by a University of California San Diego researcher reveals. This dramatic decline may underlie present-day conflicts between elephants and people, the authors argue. “This study has important implications for our understanding of the history of elephant landscapes in Asia and it lays the groundwork for better understanding and modeling the potential future of elephant landscapes as well,” said Philip Nyhus, professor of environmental studies at Colby and one of the study coauthors. In addition to Nyhus, three Colby undergraduate students contributed to the study, Josiah Johnson '19, Ashley Weaver '22, and Tiffany Wu '19. Wu's honors thesis provided an important foundation for this study. “This was a collaborative and multi-institutional effort,” added Nyhus, “and I was proud that Colby students contributed significantly to the models and analyses used in the study.”

The award-winning National Public Television series "Weekends with Yankee" included a feature on Jordan Bennisan, Colby's African drumming instructor, and his restaurant Me Lon Togo in Rockland, Maine. Bennisan's recipe for the peanut chicken stew he prepared on the show is published in the March/April issue of Yankee Magazine.

A number of art media, including Art Daily and Auction Central News, covered the gift of 184 works to the Colby Museum of Art by Norma Marin.

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch delivered a paper titled “Who’s On First? When Illustrations Are Not Text-Bound” at the international conference "Illustration Studies: New Approaches, New Directions" held in Birkbeck, University of London, April 19–21, 2023.

Evgeniy Maloletka, a freelance photojournalist working for the Associated Press, has won first place in the renowned international "World Press Photo" competition for an image he took while embedded in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in March 2022, a few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The image of an injured, heavily pregnant woman from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol "shocked people around the world" and "captures the human suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine," said jury chairman Brent Lewis. Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov were co-recipients of Colby's 2023 Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism.

Online luxury magazine Lux Exposé featured the Lockwood Hotel in a story about how hotel lobbies are becoming the new remote workspace. The piece noted that the Lockwood’s “cozy, art-filled lobby is an oasis for both work and leisure,” and it provides guests with a “warm and inviting space that feels like a living room.”

Elizabeth Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita, has been awarded the 2023 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History for her book Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (University of North Carolina Press in Chapel Hill). Butler is Colby’s most significant Civil War-era alumnus, graduating from Waterville College—later Colby—in 1838 and becoming among the most significant civilian Union generals in the Civil War. Leonard is an award-winning biographer with specialties in the Civil War, and Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life is her seventh book. It was also a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.