Barbara Brooks

In a bold move to further internationalize Colgate’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, 27 faculty members are traveling through India for two weeks. The academic expedition was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president’s grant awarded to President Jeffrey Herbst for his discretionary use. Faculty members will share […]

Last spring, while teaching in Bryansk, Russia, on a Fulbright grant, Colgate political science professor Dan Epstein noticed a change in the mood of the people since the last time he visited.

This spring, 10 Colgate students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. “They will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when […]

Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]

As alumni, faculty, and students celebrated the 50th anniversary of Colgate’s London Study Group, the Institute of International Education (IIE) released its 2009-2010 Open Doors data. Again, Colgate appeared near the top of two lists for the number of students studying abroad.

Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.

Patricia Hill Collins, a social theorist who studies race, gender, social class, work, and family, came to Colgate recently to deliver the annual W.E.B. and Shirley Graham DuBois Lecture, hosted by the Africana/Latin American Studies Department.

The Colgate Inn was officially dedicated during Homecoming weekend, though guests have been staying overnight, dining, entertaining, and enjoying the renovated historic inn for several months now.

This fall 12 members of Colgate’s admission team spent a total of 276 staff days on the road. They visited 850 high schools in 41 states and 24 countries. They were asked — and they answered — every conceivable question about the admission and aid process.

What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.