An ABC News story on Maine’s ranked-choice voting included quotes from Professor of Government Dan Shea. “We’re starting to get comfortable with it,” he told ABC News. “There are still some who are confused, but they have seen it in action and are getting comfortable.” Still, there are political issues surrounding the issue. “Not unlike...
Professor of Government Dan Shea was tapped to comment on the Portland Press Herald article “Can Susan Collins survive Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party?” Among the questions the article asks is if Senator Collins has changed or if politics have changed. “I think she has been caught up in what scholars are calling affect partisanship or negative...
The painting Étude, by Elizabeth Nourse, is the subject of a Washington Post story titled “Side by side yet worlds apart” as part of the paper’s “Great Works, In Focus” series. The painting “hangs in the wonderful Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine,” the author writes in his introductory paragraph.
Earlier this week, the College began phase one of the new Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts project. The center, planned to be built at the southern gateway to campus, will be a key part of Colby’s ongoing efforts to make the arts a more central component of the student experience as well as...
Colby and its testing program are included in an Oct. 2 New York Times story titled “Colleges Learn How to Suppress Coronavirus: Extensive Testing” about colleges that are “beating the pandemic.” President Greene told the reporter how frequent testing allowed a positive case to be caught early, and that contract tracing limited the spread. “It could have been...
An extensive story by USA TODAY details Colby’s successful COVID-19 testing program and in-person education approach in its article “Colleges are exploding with COVID and have lax testing. One school is keeping cases down.” Reporter Chris Quintana spent a day on Mayflower Hill talking with students and faculty about their experiences with testing and life on campus during the...
Mainers Don’t Have a Second Choice; Impact of Ranked Choice is Negligible Poll Asks About Ginsburg Replacement and the Collins Vote A new poll of registered Maine voters released today by Colby College revealed that both of the high-profile statewide races are extremely tight. The poll, which was developed and fielded by Colby College,...
Artifacts relating to Olympic athlete and author James Brendan Connolly from Colby’s Special Collections & Archives are included in the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum, which opened in July in Colorado Springs, Colo. Connolly was the first medalist in the first modern Olympic games of 1896, and the loan includes Connolly’s 1896 silver Olympic medal (hop-skip-jump, now called the triple jump)...
The headline says it all: “Colby College testing ‘going well,’ official overseeing health and safety plans says.” The Morning Sentinel talked to Doug Terp, vice president of administration, who said of the low rate of COVID-19 infections that “overall, these results are well below what we were assuming we’d have,” he said. “From the 10,000-foot level, our...
Blair Braverman ’11 has an essay in the New York Times as part of their series on resilience. In her essay “What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown,” Braverman links the unknown distances her dogs must run each time they go out with the uncertainties of the length of the pandemic. “That’s...
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson was interviewed on the radio program This Green Earth on Sept. 22. In the 30-minute conversation, they talked about Carlson’s new research on PFAS in ski wax, “it’s surprising findings, and why changes in the use of this type of ski wax are being pursued. These ‘forever’ chemicals can get into...
Colby’s reopening success and testing program was the subject of a feature story on the PBS Newshour. “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many academic institutions across the country are dealing with outbreaks—or offering only virtual learning in an attempt to prevent them. But one liberal arts school in Maine is seeking to avoid either fate,”...
Professor of Government Dan Shea was a guest on the Sept. 22 NPR show On Point titled “How RBG’s Death Could Impact Key Senate Races.” Boston’s NPR station WBUR aired the show, but it’s also aired on stations across the country. NECN—New England Cable News—also tapped Shea for their story “Susan Collins Faces Pressure From Right, Left...
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was tapped for a Public News Service article on how Susan Collins’s opposition to a Supreme Court vote may impact her chances for reelection. “Many of those undecided people have hesitation about the extent to which she supports Trump. Some of those people are still in play...
In an Associated Press story titled “Walmart, Amazon Donate To QAnon-Promoting Tennessee Politician” that was circulated across the country, Professor of Government Anthony Corrado was quoted about how corporate PAC managers make decisions on which candidates to support. “In many instances, you don’t have any kind of corporate board oversight or any kind of accountability...
Artist Jim Condron ’92 was interviewed by The New Criterion magazine for their September issue. The article says that just before the pandemic hit, “Condron began a residency at the New York Studio School’s DUMBO Sculpture Studio and Gallery,” so the interviewer and Condron talked “about such disruptions and recent work, but we also discuss longer-standing artistic concerns...
Insider magazine included Colby in its story “13 of the most unique colleges in America,” highlighting Colby’s Jan Plan as an opportunity “to take time off to travel or complete research abroad.”
Professor of Government Anthony Corrado was tapped for a Maine Public story on the high-profile, high-stakes Maine U.S. Senate race and the effects of money flowing into the race. “This is the marquee race in the country for the U.S. Senate,” said Corrado, one of the leading campaign finance experts in the country. “Corrado said the...
Tayo Clyburn, Colby’s new dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, was profiled in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The profile chronicles Clyburn’s journey to his new position at Colby, recounting his graduate work at The Ohio State University and his previous job at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. At Colby, he’s looking forward. “He wants to...
Professor of Economics Michael Donihue, an expert on the lobster economy in Maine, was tapped by Gray Television in Washington for a story on a new federal payout plan called the Seafood Trade Relief Program and its potential impact on Maine lobsterman. Donihue said the federal aid program leaves out those in the lobster business hardest hit. “The...
