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Claire Jimenez

Claire Jiménez ’06 Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez emerges as the best novel published in 2023

Mike Ballin and Blueprint Surf Co.

Surf’s Up, and It’s Green

Mike Ballin ’21 is using recycled plastic to 3D print surfboards at Blueprint Surf Co. 

Pond Houses and Miller Library seen from a drone

Colby Residence Halls Named After Four Influential Women

Jacqueline Núñez, Carol Swann-Daniels, Jane Powers, and Paula Lunder will be honored

Loren Walensky and Tommy DeAngelis in lab

Twenty Years of Colby Students and Cancer Research

Pediatric oncologist Dr. Loren Walensky isn’t a Colby alum, but since 2005 he’s hosted students and young alumni in his award-winning Dana-Farber lab

Yannik Buchi in Long Island City

He Discovered Software Engineering and Found Himself

Yannik Büchi ’17 double majored in French and biology, and today he’s a full-stack software developer at real estate startup Upright

Steven Weiberg in Catskills

Teaching Kids to Ask the Big Questions

Artist Steven Weinberg ’06 takes an interdisciplinary approach to his children’s books

Laney Brown

Connecting with Colby

Laney Brown ’90, a senior executive with Avangrid, returns to campus to lead a Jan Plan course about sustainability in the energy sector

Jasmine Qin

After Disaster, Connecting Communities

Yiyuan ‘Jasmine’ Qin ’12 launched a tech startup to help disaster victims in Puerto Rico

Miller Library in winter

Colby Receives Transformational Gift for Financial Aid

An extraordinary $50-million commitment will benefit thousands of families over time

Julianna Haubner portrait

Inspired by the Unexpected

As a successful book editor, Julianna Haubner ’14 seeks manuscripts that are ‘adjacent to the obvious’