The Island Campus Advisory Committee is pleased to release the Request for Proposals for 2023 programming on the Colby Island Campus. You can find the link to the form here and under the “Planning a Trip” section of our website. In order to deliver a fair and transparent proposal process we have an Island Campus […]

First-Year Questbridge Student Trip A group of Questbridge students, Jay Talmadge, Ariana Chappell, Jacob Choi, Joann Torres, Jacob Ju, Kamryn Collins, Taylor Bailey, Alexis Wilkerson, Abdel Abdelsadig, Elisa Arteaga, Tony Onabolu, and their trip leader Misa Beltran-Guzman visited the Island Campus over Fall Break. The trip’s objective was to build community between first-year Questbridge students […]

The Colby Achievement Program in the Sciences offers hands-on research experiences in biology, chemistry, environmental science, and other disciplines to incoming students who are underrepresented in the sciences. CAPS begins with a summer bridge program and continues with academic mentoring and social activities during the academic year. This summer, for the first time since the […]

Betsy Wyeth spent almost 40 years transforming two desolate islands off Port Clyde into a wonderland of inspiration for her husband, the painter Andrew Wyeth. Now, with the islands acquired by Colby College last fall, their potential for educating and enlightening the public is endless.  Read more … By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated August 4, […]

Stacy Doore, professor of Computer Science, and her lab group – Allen Harper, Stephanie Rothenberg, Adaobi Nebuwa, Giang Pham, Michelle Phan, Andy Xu, Narit Trikasemsak, and Saki Imai – did a two-night stay on the island in late July to collect data for their Allen Island Digital Twin Project. Their project aims to create the […]