In the last couple of months, Colby has welcomed 13 new directors, each of whom brings a wealth of experience to the College. These dynamic new leaders assumed roles across the campus, from the Office of the Dean of Students to Campus Life to Admissions to the Colby Museum of Art. Daniel Cline Director...
As the Waterville Planning Board prepares to consider plans for and vote on Colby’s proposed performing arts center, the Morning Sentinel ran an extensive story on the center, providing an overview of the building and its programs as well as Colby’s other projects in Waterville centered on the arts.
The low numbers of positive COVID-19 test results at Colby and other Central Maine colleges were the subject of the Morning Sentinel article “Central Maine colleges continue COVID-19 testing as students return to campus.” The numbers are a good sign of how well the testing program is working at Colby. “And we hope that will continue and even...
Dominick Leskiw ’21 wrote an article published by the Earth Island Institute. Titled “Forecasting Marine ‘Bioinvasions” in a Warming World,” the piece looks at the wide-ranging sources of bioinvasions, from “travel and trade, colonization and war, fisheries and aquaria, and the countless physical means of carriage, called vectors, that allow humans — and the organisms we...
Colby mourns the loss of David H. Firmage, the Clara C. Piper Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, Emeritus, who passed away Aug. 28, 2020, at his home in Fairfield, Maine. A beloved professor for 35 years and an esteemed scholar, he was one of three founders of Colby’s current Environmental Studies Program, nationally recognized...
The story of brothers Logan and Max Morrione was told in the Morning Sentinel article “To go or not to go: Colby students take different paths to Waterville college.” Logan, a sophomore, decided to come to campus for the year while younger brother Max opted to defer his first year in hopes that next year will bring...
“Can a Bubble Net Stop a Hurricane? Some Norwegians Think So,” reads the Wired headline. The idea to stretch an underwater “bubble net” to allow deep ocean water to flow upward and cool hurricanes wouldn’t be enough, says James Fleming, Colby’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society and currently a visiting professor at Harvard University....
Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto coauthored the paper “People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work” recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Popular science journals such as Psychology Today and Science News ran stories about the paper. The coauthors research found that “when pursuing...
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story titled “Some basic items in your home might be toxic to you.” The article discusses several household items that contain toxins. “Because they’re not well-regulated, there are certain chemicals that are actually quite toxic, but the government is under no obligation to...
Johanna Lawton ’19 and Brendan Cahill ’89 have coedited the book A Skein of Thought, which is a compendium of lectures from the Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series. The book stems from a project of “Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), with the support and collaboration of the Permanent Mission of Ireland...
The Portland Press Herald ran a story about the appointment of Maya Lin as senior fellow of the Lunder Institute for American Art. Beth Finch, interim director of the Lunder Institute, told the Press Herald that “Lin has built her practice balancing art and architecture, using science to create art that engages viewers to think about their relationship to nature.”...
In acknowledgment of her achievements as an artist who has re-envisioned monuments and whose practice actively contributes to a deeper understanding of human impacts on the environment, the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College has appointed renowned artist Maya Lin as a senior fellow for the 2020-21 academic year. Throughout the year, Lin...
National Science Foundation grant to fund cutting-edge Colby research on ultracold plasmas The National Science Foundation has awarded Professor of Physics and Astronomy Duncan Tate nearly $200,000 to deepen his research on ultracold neutral plasma, which has potential implications for the pursuit of relatively clean nuclear fusion power. The three-year grant will allow Tate to...
As Colby students began to return to campus, various media sources included Colby in roundups of the various schools welcoming students back. These outlets made note of Colby’s process and testing protocol: Maine Public Portland Press Herald
Colby Head Tennis Coach Adam Reeb has been named College Coach of the Year by the United States Professional Tennis Association, New England Division. The honor was announced this week, recognizing Reeb’s accomplishments in his first two years at Colby, including national rankings for both men’s and women’s teams, and an All-America selection for Scott...
Jacqueline Terrassa, the new Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art, conducted a Q&A with ArtNet News to discuss how she’s been spending her time as she prepares to begin her position at Colby October 5. Part of her approach during her transitional period includes connecting with others: “I try to read...
The swimming magazine SwimSwam took note of the completion of Colby’s Olympic-sized pool, completed on time, and a part of the new athletics and recreation center on campus. “The news of the pool’s completion is great not only for Colby College, but for the sport of swimming in Maine as well,” the magazine said. “With a new...
New England Today published a lengthy article titled “Fighting for Survival | The Plight of Small New England Colleges” that holds up Colby’s model of investing in Waterville as an example of reversing the trend of college towns struggling to survive. “It seemed obvious what we had to do,” President David Greene told New England Today....
In a new report released from the Environment America Research & Policy Center, Colby tops the charts “for the most renewable heating, cooling, hot water and other non-electric energy produced per student,” according to a press release by the organization. Colby has been carbon neutral since 2013 and was one of the first colleges in the...
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, was interviewed for an article about Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris for his running mate that appeared in the Swiss newspaper Corriero del Ticino. In a fun twist, the reporter who interviewed Maisel is the mother of Marta Ameri, assistant professor of art.
