In a New York Times op-ed, Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations, discusses hypersonic missiles, weapons that “have long been an object of desire by Russian, Chinese and American military leaders, for obvious reasons: Launched from any of these countries, they could reach any other within minutes,” Simon wrote in the Jan. 2 opinion piece. “The biggest...
Matt Proto, vice president for enrollment and communications, commented on a Maine Public piece about Maine colleges’ admissions policies after the March “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal, which rocked college admissions offices across the country. While Proto said that “all of the things that happened in the scandal are not a part of the process at...
Jim Ryan 14, who raced for Colby as a student, has appeared in Warren Miller films in the past. Now, he’s convinced the filmmaker to turn his lens on Ryan’s hometown ski area, Killington. The Mountain Times explains Ryan’s role in a Dec. 18 story titled “Killington skier Jim Ryan helps bring Warren Miller film crew...
In an unusual pairing, James Fleming, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, was interviewed for the Denver Art Museum’s podcast on Claude Monet. In the episode, titled “Beyond Monet: You Can Smell it in the Paintings,” Fleming “closely examines Monet’s paintings of snowy landscapes and talks about how the artist captured...
Colby’s announcement that chocolatier Bixby & Co. will be opening a store and café in Waterville was covered by the Morning Sentinel Dec. 17. “Bixby & Co., the Rockland-based chocolate maker, is set to open an artisan chocolate cafe and store this spring on Main Street in downtown Waterville, but the company is looking to bring more...
Multiple news sources are running stories about where personalities come from and why they’re all so different. The articles cite Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto, who studies the “Big Five” personality traits. “Every personality trait is a continuous dimension. You can be very high or very low, and most people fall somewhere in between,” Soto...
Recently released findings by Robert Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, were covered at Phys.org, as provided by the National Science Foundation. “New research led by Colby College geologist Robert Gastaldo has revealed the most definitive proof to date that the extinctions did not occur at the same time. The findings, published in the journal PALAIOS,...
In an essay in Guernica titled “Anatomy of a Successful Campus Talk,” Assistant Professor of English Aaron Hanlon discusses a recent campus visit by former Maine Governor Paul LePage and ways that campuses can make the most of a “less than admirable speaker.” Hanlon issue isn’t with bringing conservative speakers to campus, but rather with a format...
Noontime Sports has chosen Colby’s men’s basketball as its Team of the Month for November. “The Mules, who recently improved to 7-0 this past weekend with a 106-102 win over Kean University, recently moved-up three spots in today’s New England D-III Men’s Basketball Top 10 Poll for Monday, Dec. 2, 2019,” Noontime Sports reported. “The Mules boast...
Maine Public’s podcast The Pulse featured Professor of Government Anthony Corrado for a segment titled “Who Is Paying For All Those Political Ads?” In the Nov. 29 episode, Corrado, a campaign finance expert, gave a primer on dark money groups, their tactics, and how they’re operating in Maine.
The Nov. 25 topping off ceremony for Waterville’s Lockwood Hotel was covered by these outlets: Mainebiz, Nov. 25 Morning Sentinel, Nov. 25 WFVX-TV22 Bangor, Nov. 25 WABI-TV5 Bangor, Nov. 25
An op-ed by Charles Lawton in the Portland Press Herald’s “Maine Voices” series highlights Colby’s community investments as a model for growth across Maine. Lawton, a member of the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission, notes Colby’s 20-percent growth in employees, its $176-million investment in facilities and equipment, and its economic impact on Waterville as examples of the...
Maine’s Second Congressional District will be one of the most hotly contested races in 2020, according to Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, who told the Lewiston Sun Journal that “there is no congressional district that is more competitive in the entire nation.” The article, also aired by WGME-TV13, reported, “People say that...
Multiple media outlets ran stories on the recently announced milestone of Colby’s Dare Northward campaign—raising $500 million, or two-thirds of its goal, in just three years. Outlets that covered Colby’s success include: Boston Globe, Nov. 21 U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 24 Washington Times, Nov. 24 Houston Chronicle, Nov. 24 WABI-TV5, Nov. 24 Mainebiz, Nov. 22 Portland Press Herald, Nov....
The Chicago Public Library selected Biddy Mason Speaks Up, cowritten by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, as one of it’s 2019 Best of the Best in the “Best Informational Books for Older Readers” category. The book, part of the “Fighting for Justice” series, tells the story of healer, midwife, and civil rights champion Biddy Mason, who...
The Boston Globe ran an extensive story Nov. 21 on the success of Colby’s Dare Northward capital campaign, which raised more than $500 million, two-thirds of its goal, in three years. The article includes an interview with President David Greene, who is quoted about many of the dramatic improvements enabled by the campaign thus far—in...
A November 21 NPR feature headlined “Why Money Can’t (Usually) Buy You a Successful Campaign” featured Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, an expert on campaign finance. The story, on scores of stations and websites across the country, discussed wealthy candidates currently seeking the nomination and noted that while President Donald Trump’s successful self-funded bid for...
Dean Allbritton, associate professor of Spanish at Colby, spoke about his academic research at Stony Brook University in New York Nov. 6 as part of a distinguished alumni speakers series in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. Allbritton, who earned a Ph.D. at Stony Brook in 2011, presented “Bad Blood: Visions of Hemophilia in...
Robert Gastaldo, Colby’s Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, and colleagues recently published an article in the journal PALAIOS, that upsets long-held beliefs about the End-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago. Gastaldo is coauthor of an article titled “Testing the Daptocephalus and Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zones in a Lithostratographic, Magnetostratigraphic, and Palynological Framework in the Free State,...
The December issue of National Geographic has an extended feature on the thousands of tigers kept in captivity in the United States, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies is quoted about the history of the animals in the country. The article is headed, “Captive Tigers in the U.S. Outnumber Those in the Wild. It’s a...
