Faculty News

Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell spoke about the current racial climate in America Wednesday night as part of ALST Day celebrations on campus. Harris-Lacewell, a frequent contributor to MSNBC and other media outlets, tackled the broad topic by explaining race in four ways: racial context, race as a factor in candidate choice, race and governing, and […]

William Skelton, who took generations of Colgate students on the India Study Group that he created and who founded the Colgate Concert Orchestra, passed away Sept. 23. Skelton, Robert Ho Professor of Asian studies and professor of music emeritus, joined the Colgate faculty in 1954 as a music professor. He directed the chamber band, 65-voice […]

As parents across the country send their children off to college, Mark Thompson, director of Colgate’s Counseling & Psychological Services, has been offering expert advice for those mothers and fathers feeling anxious about the experience. Media outlets, including WALR-FM (Atlanta), KFAB-AM (Omaha), and WCPO-TV (Cincinnati), have turned to Thompson for his insight and perspective.

While many budding musicians venture to locales such as New York City and Los Angeles to get a taste of the entertainment industry, Sophia D’Addio ’06 found the perfect opportunity right here in Hamilton. D’Addio, who plans on pursuing a doctorate in art history, jumped at the chance to spend a month as senior intern […]

As President Rebecca S. Chopp prepares to depart Colgate and the Chenango Valley after seven years, nostalgia has officially set in. “I walk out of my office and everything is blooming, and the gardens are turning pink and yellow, and white, and I think, why am I leaving this place?” Chopp said in a recent […]

Author Elizabeth Strout, who taught at Colgate two years ago and will return to campus this fall, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Strout won for her book Olive Kitteridge, a series of 13 connected short stories centered on a school teacher living in a hardscrabble town in coastal Maine. The Pulitzer citation […]

Colgate professor Nina M. Moore has been appointed by Gov. David A. Paterson to a four-year term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission is the state agency responsible for investigating complaints of misconduct against judges of the state unified court system and, where appropriate, determining to admonish, censure or remove […]

Colgate University President Rebecca Chopp today announced that she will become president of Swarthmore College effective July 1, 2009. Chopp has been president of Colgate since July of 2002.

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by Colgate University Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two Colgate undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]

Colgate’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth kicked off Tuesday with a lecture about one of the naturalist’s legacies – the study of biodiversity – and a warning that the home for a vast array of plant and animal species is threatened. The university has several events this week to honor Darwin, […]