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Learning to Coexist

Philip Nyhus has dedicated his scholarship to understanding interactions between humans and wildlife

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Discovering New Ways to Understand the World 

Assistant Professor Aleja Ortiz has received a prestigious grant to study atolls

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How an Introductory Ecology Course Changed Her Life

Aidan Sites ’22 thought she would go into medicine, but instead, she is saving sea turtles and whales

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Analyzing the Environment

The environmental computation major brings together computer science and environmental studies

Tory Meringer '25 poses for a portrait in Miller Library.

A School for Atlantic Salmon 

Tory Meringer ’25 spent her internship researching Atlantic salmon in Woods Hole through an internship offered by NOAA and Maine Sea Grant

Scholarship Stories from 2024

Colby professors do more than teach—they also complete groundbreaking research

Scholarship Stories from 2023

Our faculty’s research had a broad impact across disciplines during the past year

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$2.4-Million Gift Brings Continued Support to Tenured Faculty

The Haynesville Project’s transformative grants for faculty research are extended through 2027

A student samples a cupcake offered by Pierre Serrao, part of the Bronx-based culinary collective Ghetto Gastro.

Cooking Up the World They Want

Ghetto Gastro, a culinary collective from the Bronx, makes a memorable visit to Mayflower Hill

Alex Bingham ’26 works on an assignment during a statistics class in Davis Science Center taught by Assistant Professor of Statistics Annie Tang.

New Data Science Major Sets the College Apart

The fast-growing field of data science gives people the tools to find patterns and make predictions from the torrent of data that surrounds us

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