Interested in solar power? Senior environmental studies major Patrick Roche addresses some of the most common questions about solar systems in a recent column in his hometown paper.
New students arrived Tuesday, Aug. 26, for orientation activities and trips. The schedule of orientation activities is online and includes a new community-engagement component.
Andrew Cox '10, studying in Hangzhou, China, was pictured in China's Today Morning Express in a story about foreign students in China following the Olympic games online.
Greg Mortenson, subject and coauthor of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time, will deliver Colby's 2009 Commencement address.
A radio program about poetry in Maine that features English professors Adrian Blevins and Ira Sadoff will air on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network at 2 p.m. on Thursday, August 14.
The highly acclaimed new book by Colby professors G. Calvin Mackenzie (government) and Robert Weisbrot (history) is reviewed in the August 13 New York Times.
Anne Hull, one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal, will receive the 2008 Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism.
Colby is a sponsor of the 16th annual Taste of Greater Waterville on Weds., August 6. The festival features gourmet and ethnic foods, entertainment, children's activities, and more.
With the recent deaths of two anthropologists in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military's practice of sending social scientists into war zones is being criticized.
The first Colby Undergraduate Summer Research Retreat took place July 24 and 25. A day of presentations was followed by whitewater rafting on the Kennebec.
Colby is a key sponsor at the Maine International Film Festival, now in its 11th year. Actor John Turturro will receive an award at this year's festival, July 11-20. Read more.
