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Hamilton, NY — With personal gifts totaling $4 million, 67 current and former trustees of Colgate University have created a fund that will advance the college in honor of retiring President Neil R. Grabois. The fund was announced Tuesday evening (March 9) by Trustee Chairman Wm. Brian Little at a black tie dinner in New […]

Hamilton – Ginna Marston of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America will give a lecture titled ‘Does pop culture influence drug attitudes’ Drugs, teens, and the media’ on Wednesday, March 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 209, Lathrop Hall at Colgate University. Marston’s lecture will examine myths and misconceptions surrounding drug use and pop […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University junior Jessica Weiss will present a musical program of vocal works on Thursday, April 15, at noon in Memorial Chapel. A soprano, Weiss attended Syosset High School and studied voice with Teresa Arrigo. Since arriving at Colgate, where she is a junior, she has been a student of Neva Pilgrim. […]

Fellowship will allow Professor Heidi Ross and sophomore Janna Pistiner to travel and do research in China for a month. Hamilton – For many girls in rural areas of China, access to basic education presents a persistent struggle. In China’s poorest rural villages, school attendance among girls has actually declined during the past decade. Changes […]

Hamilton – Stephen Kuusisto, a writer who for almost forty years tried to hide the fact that he was legally blind, will give a reading from his autobiographical account Planet of the Blind at Colgate University on March 23, 1999. The Humanities Colloquium Lecture Series reading, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

Hamilton – John Koegel will participate in the college’s next Humanities Colloquium Series lecture on Tuesday, April 6. The topic of his talk, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall, will be ‘Preserving the Sounds of the ‘Old’ Southwest: Charles Lummis’s Collection of Mexican-American and Indian Music at […]

Hamilton – Yale Strom and his Hot Pstromi Klezmer Band from New York City will perform at Colgate University’s Edge Caf

Hamilton – Yale Strom and his Hot Pstromi Klezmer Band from New York City will perform at Colgate University’s Edge Caf

Hamilton – Novelist Frederick Busch, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University, will give a reading from his most recent novel, The Night Inspector, on Monday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m. The reading will take place in the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall on the Colgate campus. A well-known critic and reviewer, Busch is […]

Chamber Players present Easter Serenade and alumnae Mary Jo Ashenfelter and Kerry Koen perform program highlighting nineteenth-century star Jenny Lind Hamilton – The Colgate University Chapel will resound with music when the Colgate Chamber Players present their fifth Easter Serenade on Sunday, April 4, at 3:30 p.m. and Colgate alumnae Mary Jo Ashenfelter ’79, soprano, […]