Tim O'Keeffe

Colgate University has joined forces with five other upstate liberal arts colleges to explore potential cost-saving measures and to share best practices in areas such as student life and staff development. Besides Colgate, the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium consists of Hamilton College, Clinton; St. Lawrence University, Canton; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva; […]

Future Colgate hockey players Jeremy Price (Milton, Ont.) and Thomas Larkin (London, England) were both selected in the NHL Entry Draft this past weekend in Montreal. Price was selected 113th overall while Larkin was the 137th pick.

Harold Ramis’s latest comedy – Year One – will be in a theater near you on June 19. One of his most successful films, Ghostbusters, celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer, and a video game based on the film is to be released June 16. There also is much buzz about a potential third installment […]

About 1,400 alumni returned to campus this past weekend, filling Whitnall Field with laughter and shared memories, offering provocative Reunion College sessions, and celebrating milestones and achievements. In typical Chenango Valley fashion, the weather mostly cooperated, intermingling overcast skies with sunshine. The traditional All-Class Parade and Torchlight festivities were enjoyed by all; fireworks filled the […]

Colgate received positive economic news this week when Moody’s Investors Service affirmed the university’s Aa3 debt rating and reported that the university has a “stable outlook.” Administrators welcomed the important evaluation, especially in light of a Moody’s report issued in January that downgraded the overall higher education sector from stable to negative.

A sophisticated instrument tucked in a Wynn Hall laboratory is providing Colgate researchers with critical information about the structure of small molecules and proteins, data that support the most advanced research practices in chemistry and biochemistry. The instrument, a dual-source X-ray diffractometer, was commissioned in December after the university was awarded a highly competitive grant […]

Thirteen Colgate students are about to embark on a road trip that you’re not likely to read about on the AAA website. It is a three-week travel course through the Deep South, a rolling examination of the repercussions slavery and Jim Crow laws have had on a region seeped in its own culture and traditions.

(Note: The following is the transcribed remarks of Geoffrey Canada, CEO and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, who delivered the commencement address on May 17, 2009.) Thank you Madame President, the trustees, the distinguished faculty, the administration, the parents. Let me say how excited I am to join my other awardees in receiving this […]

Professor Jerry Balmuth's prepared remarks for the baccalaureate service held May 16, 2009.

Members of the Class of 2009 will walk into Sanford Field House on Sunday as seniors and walk out as alumni after taking part in Colgate’s 188th commencement exercises. Geoffrey Canada, nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform, will deliver the keynote […]