Colby College has partnered with other Maine scientific institutions to attract $20 million in research funding to use environmental DNA in the study of lake and ocean water. The National Science Foundation grant, through the EPSCoR program, funds Colby faculty to pursue cutting-edge research using environmental DNA (eDNA)—genetic material that organisms leave behind in the...
Colby College announced today the naming of the Richard L. Whitmore Jr. Head Coach for Colby Men’s Basketball in honor of the legendary coach who led the team to 637 wins in his 40-year career. Former players raised $2.1 million to endow the position in his name. Whitmore, who retired in 2011, ranks seventh all-time among...
A standout collegiate coach and decorated student athlete at Kent State has been named the new head coach of Colby women’s basketball. Chenel Harris-Smith comes to Colby from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she was associate head coach. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Harris-Smith and her family to Colby,” said Jake Olkkola,...
Moroccan anthropologist and activist Jamila Bargach has been named the 2019 Oak Human Rights Fellow at Colby College. Bargach is cofounder and director of Dar Si Hmad, a nonprofit that runs the world’s largest fog-collection project on Morocco’s Mount Boutmezguida. Her work is tied to this year’s Oak Institute theme: water. “It is very impressive...
Michael Wisecup, a retired commander, 20-year U.S. Navy SEAL veteran and former assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General (retired) Martin Dempsey, has been named vice president for strategic initiatives at Colby College. Prior to this role, he served as the inaugural presidential leadership fellow in the Office of the President...
Colby College is preparing to begin construction of a hotel on Main Street, to be called The Lockwood Hotel, drawing on Waterville’s rich history of industry and innovation and signaling the strength of the city’s future. The Lockwood Mills complex, located across Spring Street from the site of the new hotel, was the first major...
The commitment, from Rick McVey, will support the creation of a multidisciplinary data science initiative and the College’s championship women’s lacrosse team A $2-million commitment to Colby College is enabling the launch of a new initiative that will integrate data science into the curriculum across the disciplines, from social and natural sciences to the humanities....
The commitment, from Rick McVey, will support the creation of a multidisciplinary data science initiative and the College’s championship women’s lacrosse team A $2-million commitment to Colby College is enabling the launch of a new initiative that will integrate data science into the curriculum across the disciplines, from social and natural sciences to the humanities....
Colby has offered admission to 1,295 students for the Class of 2023. They were selected from a total applicant pool of 13,584. “The quality and competitiveness of this year’s applicant pool made selecting the Class of 2023 especially challenging,” said Director of Admissions Randi Arsenault. “The students we admitted will bring an exceptional diversity of...
Plans for Colby College’s hotel in downtown Waterville are moving forward with two leaders in hotel design and management. Nationally ranked architecture and interiors firm Baskervill is designing the new building, which will be located on the south end of Main Street. With more than 120 years of experience, the firm is one of the...
With the announcement of a new financial aid fund that caps middle-income families’ parent/guardian contribution—added to an existing program that eliminates the parent contribution for families earning $60,000 or less (with assets typical of that income range)—Colby College has become one of the most affordable colleges in the country for approximately 85 percent of American...
Through one of the largest gifts toward financial aid in its history, Colby College has created a new fund aimed at making it more affordable to middle-income families. The Fair Shot Fund will ensure that talented students from families in the middle-income brackets will have access to Colby’s extraordinary educational opportunities by capping the parent/guardian...
Torkwase Dyson, a painter whose explorations of visibility, environment, science, and migration have particular resonance at this moment in history, is the fall 2018 visiting artist at the Lunder Institute for American Art. She is also showing a new body of site-specific work in the exhibition Nautical Dusk, on view through Jan. 6, 2019, at the Colby College Museum of Art. During her Lunder Institute tenure, Dyson...
Programs supported by gift will create pipeline for the next generation of scientific leaders Colby College has received a major contribution to support programs that will prepare the next generation of innovators in the sciences through funded experiences at renowned partner institutions on the leading edge of discovery. The initiatives funded by Karen Linde Packman...
The 100,000-square-foot complex is the first College-owned residence downtown since Colby’s move to Mayflower Hill in the mid-20th century Marking an important moment in the history of Colby College and the City of Waterville, the Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons, housing 200 students, faculty, and staff, opened this month in downtown Waterville. Part...
Elizabeth Jabar, an artist and educator who helped create a public engagement curriculum at Maine College of Art in Portland, has been named director of civic engagement and community partnerships at Colby College. In this new role, Jabar will work with professors, students, and local organizations to integrate projects with Colby’s academic programs. Civic engagement...
A Notre Dame coach has been named the next head baseball coach at Colby, College officials announced today. Jesse Woods has coached at the NCAA Division I and III levels, first as an assistant at Wheaton College, then at Boston College, and for the past eight years at the University of Notre Dame. “Jesse quickly rose...
Colby College has announced the addition of five dynamic individuals who recently joined its Board of Trustees. Three corporate trustees and two alumni trustees bring new perspective and expertise to the College’s board. Corporate trustees Miguel Leff ’98, Carl “Chip” Smith ’91, and Laura Ward P’19, ’22 will serve four-year terms while alumni trustees Nancy...
Masterpiece of American Modernism Will Be a Linchpin of Colby’s Collection The Colby College Museum of Art is pleased to announce the major acquisition of Jackson Pollock’s Composition with Masked Forms (1941), a critical painting that reflects a watershed moment in the artist’s stylistic transition to Abstract Expressionism. It is the first major work by Pollock...
Colby College has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art and its inaugural programming. The award will add depth to the institute’s programs, which have already made an impact on Colby students and faculty, Waterville school children, and visiting artists. In...
