Provost and Dean of Faculty Margaret McFadden was quoted in the NPR story “How Colleges Are Grading Students During Coronavirus,” which discusses strategies that colleges are using during the coronavirus pandemic. “Our goal was to give students as much flexibility and choice as possible,” McFadden told NPR, “and allow our students to focus on learning and...
Duncan Coles ’19, a biology and environmental science double major, was included as a team member on a recently published paper in the journal Nature Methods titled “Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology.” One of the paper’s lead authors, José A. Fernández Robledo, is a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for...
Rabbi Rachel Isaacs was a guest on Maine Public’s April 7 call-in show “Maine Calling.” Isaacs joined five other faith leaders from around the state for the episode, titled “Faith Communities Adapt to COVID-19: How Different Religious Groups Are Reacting To the Crisis.“
Professor of History Paul Josephson was a guest on the podcast The Red Line in an April 5 episode titled “War in the Arctic,” which focused on Russia’s hypersonic missile program. “Russia is rolling out Arctic divisions, new bases and groundbreaking new missiles, which threaten the US naval dominance across the world’s oceans,” the podcast’s intro states. “Are...
In the weeks after leaving campus due to the coronavirus, Meghan Hurley ’20 wrote an essay titled “Physical, social or emotional distancing?” for the Concord Monitor. “In our small Colby community, we had our own shared experiences. Physical closeness was such a habitual part of that. While we don’t need to be together to know what each other is...
Joseph Reisert, Colby’s Harriet S. Wiswell and George C. Wiswell Jr. Associate Professor of American Constitutional Law, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article titled “Janet Mills says she will order out-of-staters to quarantine for 2 weeks while visiting Maine.” Reisert was tapped to comment on the legality of closing the Maine-New Hampshire border, something that “could...
An op-ed by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson appeared as one of the “Maine Voices” series in the March 31 Portland Press Herald. In the piece, titled “Virus’ spread shows need to resist ‘profits before people’ trade-off,” Carlson writes that “the call by some to protect the economy over the health of those most vulnerable...
Writer and outdoor adventurer Blair Braverman ’11 was a contestant on the reality show “Naked and Afraid,” and she wrote about her experience for Outdoor magazine. Titled “Everything on ‘Naked and Afraid’ Is Real—and I Lived It,” the piece is rich with Braverman’s descriptions about her experience in South Africa. “When the Discovery Channel invited me to...
Associate Professor of Government Walter Hatch wrote an op-ed titled “With the coronavirus surging, compassion is more important than ever” that appeared in the Seattle Times March 20. The piece recounts the moment when students in Hatch’s class learned the College would be moving to remote learning and sending students home three days hence. In...
Professor of Economics Michael Donihue was tapped to comment on a March 20 Bangor Daily News article titled “Restaurant staff divvy up food, help each other file for unemployment, as they enter ‘panic mode’” that reported on the importance of seasonal business to Maine’s economy. “We have a really vulnerable population, not just because we’re the oldest state...
The Boston Globe ran a Q&A with senior basketball guard Sam Jefferson ’20 in their “College Angle” series. Jefferson, who averaged 18.7 points per game this year and earned first-team all-NESCAC honors, talks about his academics at Colby, scoring 1,000 college points, and the possibility of going pro. “Right now I expect it to be just a...
Dominick Leskiw ’21, an English and environmental studies double major, wrote and illustrated an article titled “Holding Fast, or Failing?” that was printed in Earth Island Journal about his experiences on a “600-mile road trip up the California coast from La Jolla to just north of Bolinas, tracking down abalone devotees from all walks of...
In 2012 Herb Wilson, the Leslie Brainerd Arey Professor of Biosciences, Emeritus, wrote a blog post explaining how loons propel themselves, and that blog post, still relevant, was cited in a recent Carnegie Museum of Natural History Tumblr page. “When a loon is first diving from the surface, it breaks the surface by alternating strokes with...
Milan Babík ’01, visiting assistant professor of government, was a guest on the Czech Radio podcast series Vinohradská 12 on March 6. The interview, hosted by Lenka Kabrhelová (a highly decorated Czech TV/radio reporter and foreign correspondent), covered the results of Super Tuesday, reflected on the Democratic Party primaries, and zeroed in on what the fight between...
Colby’s 2020 Jan Plan in Salamanca was led by Dean Allbritton, associate professor of Spanish, and the experience was documented as a featured blog by Omprakash, an organization that provides a model, called EdGE, for ethical and educational global engagement. The blog post, “Language, Power, and Identity in Spain: Reflections from Colby College Students,” translated Colby students’...
The Public News Service article titled “Experts Weigh In: Why Did Biden Win Maine?” included thoughts by Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, who thought it was Maine’s switch from caucuses to primaries that made a difference. “We know in caucuses the most active, most concerned, most ideological people are who turn...
Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, wrote an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald’s section “Maine Voices” titled “Ranked-choice presidential primaries would give boost to moderates,” which ran March 2, the day before Super Tuesday. Even if Maine were to use ranked-choice voting in the primary, “interpreting voter true preferences when many candidates...
The New York Times visited Waterville to see how Colby’s commitment to downtown is creating extraordinary progress in our community and is a model for how colleges and their cities are working together for prosperity.
Following the release of a poll conducted by Colby that shows a statistical dead heat in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, several media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, covered the news. These outlets include: The Hill Washington Examiner NBCBoston New England Cable News Maine Public Portland Press Herald Bangor Daily News Morning Sentinel Financial Buzz...
Caroline Wren ’20, an environmental policy major and cinema studies minor, is quoted in a Lewiston Sun Journal article following her testimony at a recent Maine Legislature public hearing on a bill to help low-income Mainers test for arsenic in their well water. For her honors thesis with Gail Carlson, assistant professor of environmental studies, Wren interviewed...
