Announcements

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The Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center

Colby Opens New State-of-the-Art Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center

350,000-square-foot building is the most advanced and comprehensive NCAA D-III facility in the country
Harold Alfond and Dorothy “Bibby” Levine Alfond

Colby Receives $101 Million From Harold Alfond Foundation

Gift supports two transformative initiatives
Gordon Center Aerial Overlay

Colby Begins to Lay Groundwork for Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts

Colby College began phase one of the new Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts project, planned to be built at the southern gateway to campus.
Professor of French, Emerita, Suellen Diaconoff, 1996

Remembering Professor Suellen Diaconoff, Champion of the Humanities

Professor of French, Emerita, Suellen Diaconoff, a champion of the humanities, passed away Feb. 12, 2020. She taught at Colby for 20 years.
Coach Jack Kelley is welcomed to center ice Nov. 23, 2019, before the final Colby vs. Bowdoin game in the Alfond Athletics Center rink.

The Passing of Legendary Hockey Coach Jack Kelley

Hockey coach Jack Kelley passed away at 93. He coached at Colby and Boston University, worked for the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
New directors

New Directors Join Colby

In the last couple of months, Colby has welcomed 13 new directors, each of whom brings a wealth of experience to the College. These dynamic new leaders assumed roles across the campus, from the Office of the Dean of Students to Campus Life to Admissions to the Colby…
A photo of Bess Koffman in her lab at Colby College.

Koffman Awarded NSF Grant to Develop a New Approach to “Fingerprinting” Atmospheric Dust

A team of scientists led by Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to develop a new approach for “fingerprinting” atmospheric dust in ice cores using geochemical processes.
Tiffany Lomax

Lomax Named Colby’s First Director of Recreation Services

Tiffany Lomax has been named the College’s first director of recreation services. Lomax, who currently serves as associate director of wellness, recreation, and campus events at Delaware State University, will assume her role in August. Lomax will be responsible for launching an integrated program—including intramural and club sports—a…
Side by side photos of Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Sara Gideon.

Colby Poll Shows Maine Democrats in the Lead, for Now

The current speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, Democrat Sara Gideon, holds a five-point lead against her Republican opponent, four-term incumbent United States Senator Susan Collins, according to a poll conducted by researchers at Colby College.
Jackie Terrassa

Jacqueline Terrassa Named Director of the Colby College Museum of Art

Visionary leader brings deep experience from the Art Institute of Chicago and Metropolitan Museum of Art