Faculty News

Colgate University President Rebecca S. Chopp has been awarded the 2008 Professional Achievement Citation from her alma mater, the University of Chicago. The alumni citation honors Chopp for being a “pivotal figure in the field of higher education and a renowned scholar of religion and culture.”

Vic Mansfield, a longtime professor of physics and astronomy who helped lead an insightful workshop during the recent campus visit by the Dalai Lama, died Tuesday after a two-year battle with lymphoma. He was 67. Mansfield joined the Colgate faculty in 1973, armed with a doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University and burning interests […]

At a time when many small-town movie houses have gone dark, the Hamilton Theater — once on the brink of closing — is thriving now more than ever. The movie theater remains a fixture of Hamilton in an era of mega-multiplexes and Netflix, according to The Post-Standard (Syracuse).

Dozens of Colgate students proved this past weekend that they are politically engaged when it comes to environmental issues.

A year and a half ago, Colgate University music professor Laura Klugherz received a letter from a film company interested in using a piece of her music for an upcoming documentary about World War II. Klugherz didn’t think much about the request. In fact, she tucked the letter away in her files.

Students and faculty will not be the only ones working in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology next week.   Two Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., will be creating a sand mandala in the reading room on the library’s third floor. (See this webcam to watch them work).

As observers and passers-by witness Willoughby Sharp’s Ice and Air outdoor installations on campus, they will experience the artworks differently as the pieces change with the passing of time.

Working out of an office inside Colgate University’s Ho Science Center, a group of students is having an impact on a community more than 7,000 miles away – in Uganda, Africa. The undergraduates are part of a unique venture between Colgate and Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an Africa-based nongovernmental organization focused on environmental conservation […]

After attending a special lecture by the Dalai Lama, my understanding of both my Core Tibet course and my spiritual self was brought to a new level. For many of my Colgate courses I have attended outside readings, viewed art displays, and enjoyed concerts in order to get a deeper understanding of the subject and […]

When Bryce Gadway ’07 looked through his e-mails recently, he read the usual notes from friends and family, but little did he expect to come across a message that would declare him the winner of one of the nation’s most prestigious physics awards. “It was quite a surprise to get the message; I couldn’t believe […]