Faculty News

The Revolutions per Minute (RPM) sound art exhibition wraps up tonight with student projects to be displayed from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the former Crowe’s Pharmacy in the village of Hamilton. “[It’s meant to] allow everyone to listen to how others interpreted the sound art, how they experienced this exhibit and created their […]

The Picker Art Gallery recently launched Selected Old Masters From The Picker Art Gallery, its first curated digital exhibition. The project, led by Art and Art History Professor Judith Oliver, features recent acquisitions of Old Master paintings donated to the university by Renate and Donald Schaefer ’46. The newly acquired paintings are from the Max […]

Dan Epstein, Colgate assistant professor of political science, was interviewed on the New England Cable Network (NECN) and was asked about any possible ties between the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and Chechnya extremist groups.

Karl Marx reportedly did it. So did George Orwell, or so the story goes. But it’s definitely 100 percent true that Anthony Tamburro ’14, Caroline Kraeutler ’14, and three of their classmates on Colgate’s London Study Group made their positions heard at the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, near the Marble Arch tube station.

Colgate assistant professor of geography Michael Loranty was involved in new research that predicts rising temperatures will lead to a massive “greening,” or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In the paper published March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as […]

As birds chirp cheerful songs, a Chinese character duplicates and forms fractal shapes. In sharp contrast, city vibrations serve as the soundtrack for bustling scenes from Shanghai and Hangzhou. Although Revolutions per Minute (RPM) is a sound art exhibition, visitors will travel beyond sight and sound.

As the United States Supreme Court wrestles again with the issue of affirmative action in higher education, Colgate students and faculty discussed the sensitive subject openly with one of its most vocal critics. Richard Sander, co-author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit it, gave a […]

A recently published academic paper by a Colgate research team raises questions about the theories surrounding forest change, with a particular focus on the prospects of sustainable land and forest use in the central New York region. The paper, coauthored by Colgate geography professors Peter Klepeis and Peter Scull, Tara LaLonde ‘06, Nicole Svajlenka ’08, […]

Typically a student accompanies a professor on a research expedition, not the other way around. But nothing about Maggie Dunne ’13 is typical. Dunne, who is founder of Lakota Children’s Enrichment, Inc. (LCE), a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting awareness and assistance to families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, invited Professor. Peter Balakian, a […]

Weatherproof speakers, iPads and iPods, video projectors and monitors, headphones, a telescope, and 64 chanting machines are among the equipment being set up on campus and in the village of Hamilton, as artists and technicians prepare for Revolutions Per Minute (RPM), the first survey exhibition of Chinese sound art to be shown inside or outside […]