Tim O'Keeffe

Maps can get you from point A to point B, and if you’re a tourist in London, that’s useful. Twelve students taking part in the London Art and Art History Study Group last fall also learned that maps can serve as benchmarks of experience, providing graphical representations of intangible ideas. The students shared their mapping […]

Campus was buzzing today about the blizzard that hit Sunday. No, not the lake-effect-snow kind of blizzard, but rather the hundreds of students and fans who donned white T-shirts to watch the men’s basketball team beat Bucknell to advance to the Patriot League championship game. More than 1,300 fans jammed Cotterell Court to watch the […]

The thrill is definitely not gone for Ken Schanzer. As president of NBC Sports for nearly 10 years, he says he has “one of the greatest jobs on the planet.” As an alumnus from the Class of 1966, he says his love of Colgate — a place of “magic and miracles” — is as strong as […]

A Colgate couple’s tireless efforts to return a digital camera accidentally left in a New York City taxicab to its owner became the focus of an Associated Press article picked up by newspapers and websites around the world. Brian Ascher and Erika Gunderson , both from the Class of 2003, were the main players in […]

Last year, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, written by Kim Edwards ’81, became a literary phenomenon and surprise summer reading hit. Within weeks of its paperback release, the novel simultaneously reached number one on The New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and Book Sense bestseller lists, and it has been published in 34 languages. In […]

Raider Nation, it’s time to step up and be counted. Again and again and again. Fans of Colgate hockey are urged to vote for star goaltender Mark Dekanich, who is one of 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for men’s hockey. The award recognizes achievement in the areas of character, classroom, community, and […]

It’s one of the first ways that students living at Colgate identify themselves: “I’m on the third floor of Andrews.” Or, “I live in East.” When students arrive on campus each August, they bring their excitement and enthusiasm. They also bring duffel bags brimming with clothes, crates of PowerBars and macaroni and cheese, photographs, and […]

Golden Auditorium was hear-a-pin-drop quiet Thursday night as Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, read selections of his work for audience members weighing his every word and inflection. On Friday night, it was different. Donovan’s Pub in James C. Colgate Hall was rattle-the-walls loud as Muldoon and fellow band members played guitar-driven rock songs infused […]

Colgate professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus. The series – Colgate Conversations: Writers and their craft – features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. […]

Pink is the new maroon this weekend at Starr Rink. The women’s hockey team will be playing in specially designed pink jerseys during its 7 p.m. Friday game against St. Lawrence and then again at 4 p.m. Saturday against Clarkson. Raiders fans can show their support for the team and for the fight against cancer […]