Faculty News

In a recent post on the Reflections from India blog, an English professor described feeling marginally literate when attempting to read road signs. A religion scholar wondered what Hindus might make of [Auroville’s] claim that religions divide the people of the world.

Kenneth William Morgan, professor of religion emeritus who helped establish Chapel House, died recently at the age of 103.

(Note: this is a blog post from Jenna Reinbold, one of the 27 faculty members currently in India. You can follow their progress at the Reflections from India site. Click on “subscribe by e-mail” to get news delivered daily) I have to admit that I have never been comfortable doing non-academic public writing. I have […]

When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees’ abilities, he turned to a Colgate faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.

In a bold move to further internationalize Colgate’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, 27 faculty members are traveling through India for two weeks. The academic expedition was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president’s grant awarded to President Jeffrey Herbst for his discretionary use. Faculty members will share […]

Last week was a busy one for Colgate University faculty who were asked to comment about everything from the unrest in Morocco to the continued sinking of Venice.

In the past week, Colgate University faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts. As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on Professor Anthony Aveni for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or […]

Last spring, while teaching in Bryansk, Russia, on a Fulbright grant, Colgate political science professor Dan Epstein noticed a change in the mood of the people since the last time he visited.

In the last month, Colgate University faculty answered the call to journalists who required qualified experts. The NPR podcast Planet Money asked the question, “Why Does A Taxi Medallion Cost $1 Million?”. For the answer, they turned to Graham Hodges.

Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]