Daniel DeVries

Colgate’s Career Services, in partnership with 12 other liberal arts institutions, hosted a dynamic afternoon series of speakers, breakout sessions, and a panel discussion as part of the Innovation + Disruption symposium in New York City this week. “We designed the program to re-introduce and re-frame the national dialogue about the preparation with which liberal […]

Clayton Christensen kicked off Colgate University’s Innovation + Disruption symposium today with cautionary tales of industry giants felled by technological disruption, and why higher education should pay attention to the growth of online universities.

Few in attendance were surprised when Evan Chartier ’14, a sociology and anthropology and women’s studies double major from Oak Park Ill., was called to receive the 1819 Award, Colgate’s most selective and prestigious recognition.

There was a maroon-clad, giant-headed mascot running through the streets of New York City, April 24. Colgate’s beloved Raider took over the university twitter feed, @colgateuniv, while seeing the sights and meeting with alumni and other friends of Colgate.

  Good news is arriving in the mailboxes of a select group of students invited to join the Colgate Class of 2018 this week. Applications to Colgate increased by 4.1 percent over last year to 8,713, an-all time high in the era of application fees, according to the Office of Admission. A total of 2,224 […]

Colgate earned its fifth NCAA postseason appearance in program history as the Raiders are headed to Cincinnati for NCAA regionals. Colgate is a No. 3 seed in the Midwest Regional and takes on second-seeded Ferris State this Friday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (ESPN3). Top-seeded Wisconsin meets fourth-seeded North Dakota in the second game at  […]

Major grants and Picker Research Fellowship awards for 2014-15 are funding dozens of faculty research projects both on and off campus, with subjects ranging from Middle English punctuation to Russian climate science to the creation of an experimental documentary. For biology professor Endga Hagos, his major grant funding will help continue research into the workings […]

When Neal Barsch ’14 found out he would be representing Sierra Leone at the National Model African Union in Washington, D.C., he knew he would need to make some fast friends to accomplish his small country’s diplomatic goals. “If I wrote a resolution based on just what was just good for Sierra Leone, it wouldn’t […]

The former lobby of James B. Colgate Hall has undergone a major transformation in becoming The Hurwitz Admission Center, and the doors to this contemporary and informative welcome space are now open. Entirely donor-funded and a year-and-a-half in the making, the renovation was possible thanks to a lead gift from Dan ’86 and Ellie Hurwitz […]

Members of the Colgate community were mentioned in the national media last month in ways that crossed disciplines and touched on national conversations that reached far beyond our campus in Hamilton, N.Y. January media highlights included Professor Albert Ammerman’s work in assisting with excavations of the oldest Roman temple in the pages of the New […]