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...
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Gail Carlson penned a letter to the editor, “Mainers’ health vulnerable to climate change,” that ran Feb. 5 in the Morning Sentinel. In it, Carlson notes how climate-related events such a rising heat index, increased rainfall amounts, more ticks and Lyme disease, and worsening air pollution affect Mainers, especially vulnerable populations. “Protecting...
A Portland Press Herald article heralds Colby and Waterville’s partnership as “a better model” for helping cities get on solid economic footing. Herald reporter Greg Kesich’s article “The View From Here: Do we have to be the next San Jose?” ponders how the recent announcement that Northeastern University will establish the Roux Institute in Portland will affect the city,...
Melody Larson ’20, an environmental policy major, attended the Maine Climate Council Jan. 29 and wrote a letter to the Morning Sentinel about her experience. In “Maine doing right for climate,” Larson recounts what she learned attending the Maine Climate Council and participating in Maine Youth Voices Day. “As a Mainer and Colby College student, it was a...
Mainebiz covered this week’s announcement that Verna’s All Day will be opening in downtown Waterville later this year. Their article, “Colby completes ‘food triangle’ with lease to Portland restaurant owners,” reports not only that Briana and Andrew Volk plan to open a chop house as well as a food market at the Bill & Joan Alfond...
A new book by Lindsay Mayka, assistant professor of government, was the topic of an episode of the podcast New Books in Political Science. Mayka spoke with host Lilly Goren about her book, Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which “examines the idea and implementation of participatory institutions, asking the question...
The Portland Press Herald reached out to Sandy Maisel, the Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government, for an article titled “Sen. Collins in a ‘uniquely difficult’ position, impeachment observers say.” Maisel believes that the impeachment vote “will test her. … She may vote to allow witnesses and then vote not to (convict). She has to think about...
Mike Perreault ’13, executive director of the Maine Film Center, is one of two masterminds behind a new film festival, Maine in the Movies, the Island Institute reports. “These films all reflect the different facets of Maine,” Perreault said in the article. “How Maine sees itself, and how others in the larger world see the state...
Colby senior Tori Paquette ’20 created the course “Faith, Class and Community,” which paired students with Waterville faith-based organizations to study poverty relief efforts, and the Morning Sentinel reported on the results of the class. The nine students in the class “not only volunteered with the organizations, they also learned about how faith-based organizations in Waterville help...
The Central Maine Growth Council has been selected to join the 2020 Rural Innovation Initiative, “which helps rural communities create digital economy jobs with an innovation hub strategy,” Mainebiz reports. Colby will partner the council as another component of its ongoing relationship with the city. “We’re eager to continue partnering with the Growth Council and others to advance...
Professor of Government Anthony Corrado was quoted in a Jan. 12 Los Angeles Times op-ed titled “Ten years on, Citizens United ruling has changed U.S. politics — but not in the way many feared.” The author, David Shribman, writes that “the notion that the Citizens United decision opened the donation floodgates to 21st-century corporations is a myth.”...
A recent episode of the popular Something You Should Know podcast features an interview with Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Soto. In the interview, Soto discusses the latest research on personality: what it is, where it comes from, and how it changes across the lifespan. The episode is available on iTunes, podcast apps, and online.
“Construction of a $26-million, 53-room hotel on Main Street in downtown Waterville is on schedule,” the Morning Sentinel reported Jan. 5. The building is currently being covered with permanent sheathing, after which trade workers can begin to work inside, the Sentinel reports. “It’s going well,” said Paul Ureneck, director of commercial real estate for Elm City, LLC., an affiliate...
The Los Angles Times quoted Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations, in an article titled “U.S. officials vow to increase security after airstrike kills Iranian general.” If Iran retaliates for the Jan. 3 killing of Qassem Suleimani , it won’t strike the United States directly, Simon said. “A repeat of 9/11 seems quite unlikely,”...
