Colby Partners with Maine Institutions to Attract $20-Million National Science Foundation Research Grant
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...
August 22, 2019

Donald Klein ’47, “Father of Psychopharmacology,” Dies at 90
Psychiatrist Donald Franklin Klein ’47, known widely as “the father of psychopharmacology” for his groundbreaking work revolutionizing the understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders ranging from panic attacks to depression to anxiety, died Aug. 7, 2019, at the age of 90 in New York, N.Y.  Born in 1928, Klein came to Colby from the Bronx,...
August 20, 2019