Barbara Brooks

Going green may sound like a good idea, but with a physicist, a biologist, and an economist all teaching courses about the environment this semester — and a host of students eager to take action against climate change — why not gather the data to prove it? So in classrooms, labs, and residence halls, students […]

Colgate alumni, parents, and faculty harnessed their intellectual resources in New York last week, at the university’s first Energy Summit sponsored by the Presidents’ Club. ABC’s Bob Woodruff ’83, P’13 moderated a panel discussion featuring six alumni who represented diverse perspectives on the energy field: journalist and Alaska resident Elizabeth Arnold ’82; energy investor Bob […]

Climate change can be looked at from many perspectives: as a moral call to action, a matter of public policy, or a blip in geologic time. Students and faculty considered these angles and many others at a panel discussion on Thursday that was part of a national teach-in to draw attention to the International Day […]

In many religions, food is love. Now, thanks to generous contributions from Mike Saperstein ’62 and Charles Axelrod ’63, Colgate’s Michael Saperstein Jewish Center has two brand new hearts: two spacious kitchens where meat and dairy foods can be prepared separately, so traditional kosher meals can be shared.

If college is a 24/7 operation requiring teamwork and venturing into the unknown, then the 16 members of the Class of 2013 who spent four days aboard a working schooner have earned their sea legs. While bonding, blogging, and biding their time until the wind picked up, they took their turns in three around-the-clock shifts […]

In one of Colgate’s most engaging annual rituals, about 1,500 members of the Colgate family are gathering this month at locations across the country to “send off” the latest cohort of new students. Alumni and current parents are hosting more than 40 events in private homes, restaurants, and parks.

As President Rebecca S. Chopp prepares to depart Colgate and the Chenango Valley after seven years, nostalgia has officially set in. “I walk out of my office and everything is blooming, and the gardens are turning pink and yellow, and white, and I think, why am I leaving this place?” Chopp said in a recent […]

While the majestic trees on Willow Path have the power to warm people’s hearts, a new 7½ -acre willow biomass farm on Hamilton Street will help heat the university. Depending on the soil, weather, and overall conditions, last week’s planting of 60,000 8-inch shrub willow shoots should yield about 900 dry tons of biomass over […]

Ret. Gen. Colin Powell — former U.S. secretary of state and one-time leader of 350,000 troops — knows how to make an entrance. “Sit down, you’re making me nervous,” barked the general in the good-natured tone perfected over five decades of Army leadership, politics, and diplomacy. Having stared down world leaders and stood up to […]

When Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States and founder of the Favorite Poem Project, opened the floor to questions during Thursday’s lunchtime talk with students, he promised to treat each one with respect. And why wouldn’t he? At the heart of his belief, shared in his 1984 book Poetry and the World, […]