Brittany Messenger '10

Between classes, homework, extracurricular activities, and doing the many other tasks that keep college students busy on a daily basis, one thing is clear: Colgate students need their rest. The Wellness Initiative, a campuswide program that provides education and opportunities for personal health, sponsored a series of events last week to teach students about the […]

An interdisciplinary symposium — Nature/Place/Cinema — will be spread out over two weekends and two campuses (Colgate University and Hamilton College) providing students with behind-the-scenes access to filmmakers and film scholars. The series of screenings and lectures will draw attention to the depiction of place and the environment, as well as the history of the […]

George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative journalist and author, used an impressive array of facts, his sharp wit, and several well-timed baseball references to illustrate the state of politics today. In his lecture, “American Politics: The Political Argument Today,” Will discussed the limits of government — criticizing the ever-growing welfare state that encourages a sense […]

ALANA Cultural Center’s Alumni Weekend and Gospel Fest marked a celebration of the past with an eye toward the future. Colgate graduates from ’68 up through the present were excited to spend this past weekend with students and faculty members, particularly those who are involved in cultural activities through ALANA. “It’s very important to connect […]

Michael Eric Dyson is not afraid to shake things up, which is why his lecture “From Sit-ins to Hip Hop: A Social Consciousness in a Post-King America” left students both moved intellectually and shaking with laughter. Named by Ebony as one of the 100 most influential black Americans, Dyson is a university professor at Georgetown […]

Internationally recognized artists interacted with students and faculty members at a weekend symposium focused on finding innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems. “How can we re-imagine our relationship to natural systems?” asked Natalie Jeremijenko, the keynote speaker of the seminar titled Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures. All of the weekend’s panels, […]

Desperate times call for creative measures. To encourage innovative solutions to environmental crises, the arts and activism are teaming up on campus through a series of events titled Environmental Art and New Media Technology: Imagining Sustainable Future. “It’s a time in history when the old models and ways of doing things are not going to […]

Many Colgate students are focused on the environment and they want the rest of the country to be, too. A team of 30 students working with Robert Turner, professor of economics and environmental studies, organized campus events as part of Focus the Nation, a national teach-in centered on finding solutions to global warming

A week of observation and interaction marked the weeklong visit of two Tibetan monks to the Colgate campus last month. Tenzin Thutop and Tenzin Wangchuk, from the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., spent hours painstakingly placing millions of grains of colored sand to create a sand mandala in Case Library and Geyer Center for Information […]

Like a true biophysicist, Krissy Williams ’06, a graduate student at the University of Rochester, is thinking big, while focusing on the very small. Williams presented a lecture about her research to students and faculty members, some of whom were once professors of hers, on Tuesday in Lathrop Hall.