Faculty News

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 […]

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.