Tim O'Keeffe

Colgate offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That’s why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to […]

While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko ’09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn’t have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she […]

A “beautiful remembrance” of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on Colgate’s campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, […]

John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at Colgate. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.

Once a week, a first-floor room in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology is transformed into a TV newsroom bristling with students working with the latest video technology. The seven students are writing, taping, and editing Gate Update, a show highlighting campus events. The group’s first show was posted on www.colgate.edu this […]

The Office of Residential Life has been fielding offers of help from concerned students after a downtown fire displaced a dozen classmates and gutted a popular off-campus eatery.

The Colgate campus was brimming over the weekend with hundreds of guests who flocked to informational sessions, concerts, exhibitions, athletic events, and numerous other Family Weekend events.

The Barge, the Colgate-owned coffeehouse in downtown Hamilton, and the recently renovated Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology scored some major props this morning on SI.com, the online home of Sports Illustrated.

The Office of Public Relations and Communications is moving to a new platform for posting and distributing stories that appear on www.colgate.edu.

A student with a passion for video worked closely with a student who loves the outdoors on a special project that shows a sampling of what life can be like at Colgate. Sam Torrey ’09 was one of 18 students who took part in the Upstate Institute Field School this past summer.