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Rooms that Save Lives

Lightweight, easy-to-assemble panels create instant isolation rooms for COVID-19 patients

Colby Names Eric Harlow Head Coach of Alpine Skiing

In his more than 20 years of coaching elite athletes, he has developed and led teams and individuals who have consistently excelled at junior levels, top-ranked NCAA teams, the U.S. Ski Team, and international teams.

Alumni

In Waco, Education Meets COVID-19

High school teacher Jamie Suzuki ’14 moves her courses online with her students’ realities in mind

Natural Sciences

Colby CAT-scan Machine Used in Effort to Produce Vital COVID-19 Equipment

Colby’s Assistant Professor of Biology Josh Martin is using his expertise and sophisticated scientific equipment to create face shields, respirator masks, and air filter cartridges for local first responders and hospitals in need of equipment that is crucial to treating patients with COVID-19.

Alumni

In a Pandemic, Providing for the Most Vulnerable

Alice Wong Moughamian ’98 works to protect San Francisco’s homeless

Alumni

What Are We Made Of?

With National Science Foundation grant, physicist Hannah Bossi investigates existential questions

Arts

Tattoo Research Leads Deeper into Filipino Culture

For Stella Gonzalez Kalinga-style tattoos are clues to pre-colonial heritage

CCAK holds an annual end-of-the-year barbecue for mentors and mentees to enjoy activities like face painting, coloring, and a photo booth. This year, with Colby students moving to remote learning due to the COVID-19 epidemic, that event—and fond farewells—will not take place.

Campus and Community

No Time to Say Goodbye

COVID-19 means an abrupt pause in the relationship between Colby mentor and her second-grade mentee

Natural Sciences

More Reason to Flatten the COVID-19 Curve

The COVID-19 curve may be emblematic of the global pandemic, but the ubiquitous graphic doesn’t accurately represent the dynamics of the spread of the disease—or the full benefits of slowing its spread.

Looking up through tree canopy in forest

Environment and Climate

In Search of Climate Solutions

Climate Research Katie Lebling ’10Research analyst, World Resources Institute Katie Lebling’s childhood was filled with all things outdoors. Her mother, an environmentalist, seized every opportunity to bring her children close to nature in their Boston suburb. They camped. They watched birds. They swam in lakes. Imbued with…