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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.
Quark gluon plasma

What Are We Made Of?

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

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

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.

A Molecular Chess Game

At Yale’s Newhouse Group, award-winning organic chemist Timothy Newhouse '05 leads a team that makes new molecules with big implications
Hurricane damage in Caribbean city

Justice for Islands that Suffer Most

Human Geography Stacy-ann RobinsonAssistant Professor of Environmental Studies For Stacy-ann Robinson, it’s personal. Robinson grew up in Jamaica and has seen the destruction levied on the island by extreme storms. A human geographer and assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby, Robinson has also…
Qidong “Schu” He

Colby Junior Ranks in Top 10 Percent Following Math Competition

He’s ability to solve mathematical proofs quickly and reliably earned him a ranking in the top 10 percent in the 2019 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the foremost undergraduate mathematics competition in the United States and Canada.
Students in Colby's computer science classes

Effort to Establish Computing Across the Curriculum Funded by NSF

Writing has long been seen and supported as an essential skill across the Colby curriculum. Computing concepts are next in line. 
Andie Velazquez '19 in lab

Left Brain / Right Brain

Andie Velazquez melds studio art and neurobiology—perfectly
Alyson Churchill '19 (left) and Oriana Battifarano '17

Professor Proves Mass Extinction of Land and Sea Biodiversity 250 Million Years Ago Did Not Occur Simultaneously

Vertebrate fossil record from earlier studies is inaccurate.