Faculty News

On November 13, President Jeffrey Herbst took the stage at the Palace Theater to profile Nelson Mandela. Recounting the South African leader’s life and political legacy, Herbst stood next to Mandela’s portrait — one of 29 canvases in the Great Minds exhibition, sponsored by Dick Resnick ’61, P’90.

Colgate economics professor Nicole Simpson lives and teaches in an interdisciplinary world, where it’s virtually impossible to separate politics from economics. Especially where the “fiscal cliff” is concerned.

“Instead of talking about history tomorrow we may actually get a chance to witness it live,” wrote Prof. Daniel Monk yesterday in an email to students in his History of the Israel Palestine Conflict class. Though the exact time had not yet been announced, it appeared that the United Nations General Assembly’s vote on Palestinian […]

Political Science Professor and popular television host Tim Byrnes says results of the 2012 presidential election follow a predictable pattern in American politics, where the most divided political party has little chance for victory. “President Obama could have lost,” Byrnes said. “but it was extremely unlikely.” Byrnes explained to Chenango Valley Colgate Club members, and […]

Once upon a time, long-distance travel — or at least an expensive studio uplink — was needed in order for Colgate experts to reach wide audiences. Today, that’s the case only some of the time. This tale of two professors highlights today’s possibilities. In the past few weeks, Prof. Anthony Aveni, an authority on the […]

The hallway outside the Ho Tung Visualization Lab holds an impressive collection of fluorescent minerals that delight visitors coming to the lab for one of its unique shows. Matt Shramko ’13 and his father, Steven, donated 70 of the minerals to Colgate, a natural evolution of their longtime interests in geology.

Adam Weinberg, a popular professor and administrator at Colgate for more than a decade, will become president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Weinberg taught sociology and served as vice president and dean of the college until 2005, when he left to become executive vice president of World Learning and provost of the organization’s accredited higher […]

When Jake Lightman ’16 attended a lunchtime talk with Daniel Kurtzer, former ambassador to both Israel and Egypt, he wanted to know why the Middle East peace process has stalled, and why the Arabs seem to suffer the blame. “So I asked him,” Lightman said without a touch of irony. Such a thing is de […]

Voters expected the fourth and final debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to shed light on the differences between their positions on key foreign policy issues. However, according to two Colgate professors the promise fell flat on two counts: not only did the candidates cover no new ground, there was little difference in […]

When Colgate’s new Russian and Eurasian Studies (REST) program promised not only a Russian menu, but also cloth headgear and the titillating-sounding topic of the Pussy Riot phenomenon, they had a winning formula. (Pussy Riot is the feminist, subversive band whose members have been in prison since March for performing an anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” in […]