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The Office of Communications oversees strategic external communications and selected internal communications for the College. This includes major sectors of Colby's Web site, Colby magazine, the Colby College Catalogue, other publications, media relations and public information, electronic newsletters, and design services.

Communications works to maintain consistency in the College's graphic identity and marketing efforts, and it maintains an archive of photography for use in official communications.

The office also manages the annual Lovejoy Award, presented annually for courage in journalism. It commemorates Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an 1826 Colby graduate and America's first martyr to freedom of the press.

If you need information about the Office of Communications that you can't find on this site, please contact Laura Meader at 207-859-4350.

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Graduation Goes Green
Commencement 2008 will be Colby's first Green Graduation. Alaina Clark '08 developed the idea as part of a senior project, and the College has worked for months to implement new sustainability initiatives. Among them: minimizing the use of plastics, reducing electricity use, increasing composting, serving sustainable foods, and reducing paper use. The Green Team, a group of Colby students and employees, will staff information tables and assist visitors with composting and other greening efforts at events.

Freakonomics and Disasters
Professors and students frequently co-write academic papers at Colby; it's not as common that they get cited in mainstream media. In 2006 Professor Phil Brown (economics) and Jess Minty '06 published results of their study, "Media Coverage and Charitable Giving after the 2004 Tsunami," with The Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. On May 13 it was quoted in the New York Times "Freakonomics" blog, which asked, "How Pure is Your Altruism?" and on May 16 Brown discussed the study on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."