Vicki Lynn Ferrini ’95, a senior research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has been named to the Explorers Club inaugural EC50 Program, Forbes reported. The program recognizes 50 explorers, including 21 women. Ferrini’s “research interests lie at the intersection of ocean exploration, seabed mapping, and characterization. She has participated in more than 30 expeditions using ships...
An Associated Press story on Colby’s dynamic new Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was picked up by a wide range of media, including U.S. News & World Report, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Houston Chronicle, Washington Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few.
President David A. Greene told the Boston Globe that “we need to have a democratization of AI” in its article covering Colby’s announcement of the establishment of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Even though AI and machine learning programs are based at large engineering schools, the field needs the contributions of those educated in the liberal arts....
The Art Newspaper wrote an extensive article about William Tsiaras ’68, P’03, a photography collector who recently donated the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection to the Colby College Museum Art. As a member of the Colby Museum Board of Governors and a former chair, Tsiaras “really put the idea on the table that the museum needed to...
An extensive article by the Morning Sentinel highlighted Colby projects in downtown Waterville. The opening of the Lockwood Hotel and its restaurant, Front & Main, the completion of the Arts Collaborative, new retail businesses, and planning for the Paul J. Schupf Arts Center are among the projects slated for 2021. “Waterville’s moving while a lot of...
Colby’s announcement of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence was covered by the Portland Press Herald. “The institute is believed by the administration to be the first and only of its nature at a small U.S. liberal arts school,” the PPH reported. President David A. Greene said that people educated in liberal arts have tools to...
Cinda Jones ’90, president of the W. D. Cowls, Inc., Land Company and developer of the Mill District in North Amherst, Mass., won Business West’s Massachusetts’ Top Entrepreneur Award for her work envisioning and creating a new town center in North Amherst. Jones was cited in the news magazine’s top ten change-making events of the past...
The first interview with Associate Professor of Art Gary Green by Brad Feuerhelm from the Nearest Truth is now online. Feuerhelm, a respected photography critic whose writing and interviews are seminal to the contemporary dialogue on photography, calls Green’s work “multi-layered and incredibly interesting.” Feurehelm’s essays, published by the Nearest Truth, Ordinary Light (Instagram), and American Suburb X (ASX), are...
Rabbi Rachel Isaacs, speaking at Waterville’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. event, encouraged attendees to acknowledge King’s “unfinished work in addressing what he called the ‘triple evils’—poverty, racism and militarism—that prevent us from being a truly beloved community,” the Morning Sentinel reported. “In order to reach the promised land, economic justice and racial justice must be achieved,...
Psychotherapist and forest therapy guide Zoë Kaplan Presley ’97 was interviewed for The Oregonian newspaper’s outdoors podcast Peak Northwest on ways to find healing in the outdoors. Among her insights are bringing the “right intention, slowing down and being in the moment” as well as “you don’t need an extraordinary view to experience awe in nature.”
The Portland Press Herald reached out to Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology, for an article asking Black Mainers to reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The insurrection in Washington and threats to Georgia official are all too familiar to...
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology, was one of eight Mainers asked to reflect on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. “Basically, what is happening now is that the Black Lives movement is still dramatizing shameful conditions,” Gilkes said, noting that the fight...
A paper coauthored by Jin Goh, assistant professor of psychology, was covered by UPI and other media outlets. The study finds that “women who don’t fit female stereotypes of look or personality are perceived as less credible when lodging sexual harassment claims,” UPI reports. Goh told UPI that study “participants were less likely to label these ambiguous...
Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government Sandy Maisel was a guest on Maine Public’s show Maine Calling discussing Trump’s final days in office as well as the second impeachment. The show discussed “repercussions of the siege in D.C., and what to expect of our government leaders and citizenry as Inauguration Day approaches.”
Colby’s robust testing program was called out in a Maine Public story on Maine colleges’ testing programs as students return to campus. Colby is testing three times a week in January, versus twice last semester. “Having one more opportunity to get a test result,” said Doug Terp, vice president for administration. “That convinced us of doing...
Matt Proto, vice president for enrollment and communications, was interviewed for the NewsCenter Maine story “Applying to college during a pandemic,” which aired Jan. 13. Even before the pandemic, Colby’s Admissions Office has been increasing its virtual presence. “It helps students who can’t afford to visit a hundred college campuses,” Proto said.
The art world paid attention to Colby’s recent announcement of the acquisition of the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection. Coverage came from Art Daily, the Portland Press Herald, and the Morning Sentinel. “This remarkable gift from Bill and Nancy Tsiaras allows the Colby Museum and its audiences to fully engage with photography, which has been critical to the development...
“This is a very difficult problem for Biden,” said Professor of Government Dan Shea in the Globe and Mail article “Capitol Hill assault will complicate Joe Biden’s presidency.” (Also viewable here.) “We are in an era when each side views the other as the enemy, when each side thinks the other is a danger to the...
The Colby community is deeply saddened by the loss of Linda K. Cotter, LL.D. ’00, who graced Colby’s campus as “first lady” from 1979 to 2000. Linda Kester Cotter died Jan. 8, 2021, at her home in Concord, Mass. She was 83. Linda Cotter devoted enormous time and energy to create and nurture internships for...
On January 5, Dean Karlene Burrell-McRae appeared on Cheddar—a live-streaming national video network and the number-one publisher of business news on Facebook—to discuss the College’s plans for keeping students safe as it welcomes them back to campus for the spring semester. “We plan to take care of our students … and lead with our values,”...
