Scholar Programs
Presidential Scholars
Colby’s Presidential Scholars Program offers several benefits to the top students in each incoming class: the opportunity to engage with Colby’s centers, institutes, and labs, access to a pool of grants to design your own projects, and other opportunities that challenge you to achieve at the highest levels.
Bunche Scholars
Named in honor of Nobel Prize-winning diplomat and civil rights activist Ralph J. Bunche, the Bunche Scholars Program offers a select group of students access to civic engagement opportunities and community-building resources to support their off-campus experiences and grants for independent scholarship, internships, or humanitarian projects.
Pulver Science Scholars
The Pulver Science Scholars Program is designed to create a pipeline for the most ambitious and talented students from all backgrounds to pursue research and prepare them to be scientific leaders and innovators. Every Pulver Scholar receives funding to have access to at least one research and one internship experience focused on scientific inquiry and discovery before graduation.
Colby Achievement Program in the Sciences (CAPS)
CAPS is designed for incoming students who are first-generation-to-college students and/or from low-income backgrounds. CAPS provides students with a Colby-funded summer experience, providing hands-on research experiences in biology, chemistry, environmental science, and other natural science disciplines—before the first semester even begins.
Lyons Arts Lab First-Year Fellows
Lyons Arts Lab First-Year Fellows program offers a select group of students a rigorous slate of courses and experiences throughout the year alongside open exploration of Colby’s curricular offerings. The Lyons Arts Lab will provide opportunities for fellows to collaborate across disciplines and exposure to work on and off campus. Like all Colby students, Fellows are free to major or minor in any discipline(s) they choose, and Colby’s dynamic curriculum is designed to support students who want to pursue multiple academic areas of interest. Students are selected by portfolio review and interview.
After Colby
Mules Making an Impact
Claire Mepyans ’19
Claire was the first Colby student selected for the opportunity to work with researchers at one of the most prestigious cancer care and research centers in the world, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Baturay Aydemir ’17
Baturay came to Colby with dreams of becoming a doctor. After receiving degrees in neuroscience and chemistry, with a minor in classical civilization, he earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and landed a residency in Emergency Medicine.
Grace Uwase ’18
In her first post-graduate year, Grace performed research in a biomedical research lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studying the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
Brandon Kim ’18
Brandon’s undergraduate research studied the effect of microplastics on microscopic freshwater organisms. He’s now pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute.
