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A person stands inside a brightly-lit, white-painted space that appears to be a vault.

Colby’s Island People 

Island Fellows program gives students the opportunity to live, study, and work on Colby’s Island Campus

A group of people, many wearing t-shirts from Colby's Center for the Arts and Humanities, sit on a bluff overlooking the ocean.

A Deep Dive into Environmental Humanities

The annual Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities brings together scholars from all over the world

Middle-aged woman posing for a portrait.

Sarah Langan ’96 Creates A Better World

In a departure from her early-career success in horror, Langan is now dabbling in science fiction

A library building with white tower

Center for the Arts and Humanities Awards Fellowships

Each year, the center supports faculty members to develop courses and public events they’re passionate about

Two young female students standing up and playing the violin.

Mentors in Music

A program supported by an O’Hanian-Szostak Fellow expands musical education in Waterville schools

Student artist wearing headphones while hanging artwork in an exhibition hall

Art and Community Coexist in Senior Exhibition 2024

Held for the first time off campus, the exhibition celebrates student artistry while connecting with downtown

Students take notes while viewing various artworks.

Why Doctors Need the Humanities

Wrapping up a three-year research collaborative on the medical humanities through Colby’s Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab

Yumi Kang '24, left, and Jackie Hardwick '24, will teach overseas for a year after winning prestigious Fulbright fellowships.

Fulbright Fellows Will Teach in Taiwan and South Korea

Hard work pays off for Jackie Hardwick ’24 and Yumi Kang ’24, who receive prestigious fellowships

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

Jack Brenner ’26 in the Perkins Arboretum

Have You Listened to the Sounds of the Colby Forest?

A new humanities lab project, to be presented at this year’s liberal arts symposium, asks people to close their eyes and listen to what the woods have to say