Faculty News

Inside a Ho Science Center physics lab, student-researcher Amanda Zranchev ’12 is taking on the role of inventor this summer as she conducts experiments on a plywood structure that resembles a closet on wheels. “What we are doing in this lab will hopefully be valuable to homeowners one day,” said Beth Parks, associate professor of […]

Thursday was day one on the job and Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst “moved forward boldly and aggressively,” just as he said the university will do during his term. He began by delivering the closing remarks to the alumni and parent participants in the university’s first Summer on the Hill  program, which exemplified two of his […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Two dramatically different exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery each deal with the common theme of challenging conventional stereotypes. In Of Someone and Something, associate art and art history professor Linn Underhill displays selections from seven major photographic series that she has created since the […]

In an opinion article featured this week on Foreign Policy magazine’s website, peace and conflict studies professor Daniel Monk and postdoctoral fellow Daniel Levine offer their perspectives on the Middle East peace process. Monk and Levine argue that the US debates surrounding Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking are based upon outdated understandings of domestic Israeli politics.

As an economics graduate student in the early ’80s, Ulla Grapard was encouraged to pursue a subject outside the field to round out her studies. But when she mentioned women’s studies as a topic, her professor said, “What?” and then, “No.” But she was doing a ton of reading about women’s issues, attending talks and […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) The confocal microscope that lives in a narrow, nondescript room in Olin Hall is proving to be an invaluable new addition to the Biology Department that will open doors for student and faculty researchers alike. The microscope, secured through a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant […]

Marilyn Thie, professor of philosophy, religion, and women’s studies, awarded inaugural Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Catherine Cardelús’s passionate interest in tropical biodiversity — one that takes her to rain forest canopies 150 feet above ground — sprouted from a college course in plant biology. Cardelús, assistant professor of biology, was so intrigued by a professor’s lecture about rain forest diversity that she felt compelled to see it firsthand. So fresh […]

In a recent 60 Minutes segment about the 1915 mass deportation and massacre of Armenians by Turks, professor Peter Balakian traveled with a CBS News crew to a region of Syria known as the Armenian Auschwitz. “As many as 450,000 Armenians died here,” Balakian, a leading scholar on the Armenian genocide, told 60 Minutes correspondent […]

Colgate faculty members will collaborate with professors from around the world and the nation on research projects funded by the university’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. The institute director, biology professor Damhnait McHugh, recently announced the latest grants awarded by the institute.