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Colby’s Venture Pitch Competition 2019
Campus and Community

Student Entrepreneurs Pitch and Connect at Expo

Student teams competed at Colby’s Venture Pitch Competition April 26 for a $15,000 prize, selling their ideas in the allotted seven minutes.
Math equation on black chalk board
Natural Sciences

Colby Math Teams are Winners

Two Colby teams were named as “Meritorious Winner” at the 35th annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Competition organized by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP). This year, 14,108 teams from 17 countries and regions participated in the competition. Colby’s first team, consisting of Allen Ma ’21, Huan…
Paul J. Schupf Art Center
Announcements

Paul J. Schupf Commits Leadership Gift to Downtown Arts Center

Colby College Trustee Emeritus Paul J. Schupf, LL.D. ’06 has made another remarkable gift to the College, this time to support the construction of downtown Waterville’s arts center, which will bring vibrancy to the core of Main Street and be a major contributor toward establishing the city as a destination for the arts.
Arid, brown canyon landscape with river
Environment and Climate

A Climate Storyteller

If you’ve followed the career of outdoor writer Heather Hansman ’05, you’ll recognize her gasping for air after dumping her raft-load of customers into a Class V rapid on the Gauley River, avoiding avalanches in deep backcountry powder in the Rockies and Cascades, or dodging toxic algae and scary…
Sign asking for donations of water, Flint, Michigan
Alumni

For Eric Roy ’04, Flint Water Crisis Created a Company

In the spring of 2015, Eric Roy ’04 said he got a tip from an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retiree about high lead levels in the water in Flint, Mich. This was before the people of Flint fully understood what was in their water. And way before Flint became…
data visualization wall, inside the Paul J. Schupf Scientific Computing Center
Announcements

Colby College to Receive $2-Million Gift from Colby Parent, Trustee

The commitment, from Rick McVey, will support the creation of a multidisciplinary data science initiative and the College’s championship women’s lacrosse team
Emmanuel Cheruiyot ’21
Campus and Community

Davis Projects for Peace Award to Create Culture of Reading in Kenya

Thanks to a Davis Project for Peace Award, this summer Cheruiyot will take a $10,000 prize to his Rift Valley community—burdened with high illiteracy rates among children and adults—and construct a library to create a culture of reading where none currently exists.
Announcements

Alumni Gift Expands Student Opportunities in Fine Arts, Politics

The path from Mayflower Hill to important careers in fine arts or politics just got wider.
Colby College's 201st Convocation
Announcements

Colby Admits Class of 2023

Colby has offered admission to 1,295 students for the Class of 2023. They were selected from a total applicant pool of 13,584.
Downtown Waterville map
Announcements

Colby College Announces Architect and Operator of Forthcoming Downtown Hotel

Plans for Colby College’s hotel in downtown Waterville are moving forward with two leaders in hotel design and management.