CLAS

Colby’s faculty voted to create CLAS to extend the positive impact of its predecessor—the Colby Undergraduate Research Symposium. By dedicating a full day to student scholarship, Colby allows its students to engage with faculty and the community in more direct and focused ways.

Events begin on Wednesday evening with [email protected], a celebration of the arts, in the Colby Museum of Arts. The museum resonates with music, poetry, language readings, visual arts, and dance from many student presenters and performers.

On Thursday, classes are canceled so faculty, staff, and students can attend CLAS. In addition to student posters and presentations, the day features a set of wild-card sessions with interdisciplinary topics and creative formats, the Phi Beta Kappa speech contest at noon, and CLAS Highlights—an end-of-day celebration featuring four speakers nominated by their divisions.

As an extension of CLAS, the final two weeks of the term also include open CLAS sessions during regular class times. Students will make classroom presentations that are open to the public.

CLAS is also among the largest, if not the largest, undergraduate research symposia of any liberal arts college in the country.