Faculty News

Kevin M. Carlsmith, a highly regarded Colgate professor and researcher who battled cancer for the past three years, died Nov. 19 in his boyhood home in California surrounded by members of his family. He was 44.

David K. Lewis, a chemistry professor at Colgate for more than 25 years who now teaches at Connecticut College, has been awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.

Colgate professor Anthony Aveni has been selected as a judge for the YouTube Space Lab, a global science competition and ongoing education program.

Charlie Holbrow, who taught at Colgate for 36 years and is the Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus, has been awarded the 2012 Oersted Medal for his major contributions to physics education and research.

What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.

As an economist, Takao Kato studies unintended consequences of public policy decisions. As a professor at Colgate with many international students in his classes, he considers their prospects for gainful employment in the United States. That connection inspired a research project he conducted with Chad Sparber, assistant professor of economics.

(Editor’s Note: This is the Founders’ Day convocation address by George Hudson, professor of English, at Memorial Chapel on Aug. 28, 2011) One of the first rules of public speaking is to know your audience.

Shujing Wang ’12 and Daniel Michev ’14 were both excited and nervous when presenting the results of their summer research projects to a classroom full of students last week.

When Simona Maicanescu took to the Brehmer Theater stage last weekend to perform Wallace Shawn’s The Fever, the connection between the work and the university was at first oblique. But her arresting performance of the 90-minute monologue on materialism, Marxism, and the inequitable distribution of wealth invited the kind of debate that takes place at […]

When Michael Watts talks about the human, societal, and resource costs of extracting oil in Africa, it’s impossible to ignore the connection between the fuel in one’s tank and violence in the Niger Delta. Watts, author of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, is professor and Class of […]