Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Joel Sommers, assistant professor of computer science, discusses his research at Colgate in this question and answer interview.

An independent study project that student-athlete Wade Poplawski ’11 worked on with economics professor Michael O’Hara has turned out to have timely implications.

Kirsten Lalli ’11 and Caroline Komanecky ’12 are wading in the middle of a shallow, rocky stream on the outskirts of the remote village of Buhoma, Uganda.

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute recently awarded grants supporting collaborative research teams led by Colgate faculty members who will combine their expertise from across disciplines to address questions in science and mathematics.

A grueling ascent of the 9,400-foot summit of Lonquimay volcano in Chile provided spectacular views, important data collection, and a fun slide down the volcano’s glaciers for about 20 students on an extended study course. The volcano was one of five visited during winter break by students who are taking Professor Karen Harpp’s Geology 420: […]

Waving peace signs in the air and repeating choruses of “I’m ‘A’ African,” students and faculty hardly looked like they were gathered in Love Auditorium to learn anything. Yet they were treated to a unique and original lesson in evolutionary biology – in rap format.

Physics department faculty members Charlie Holbrow, Jim Lloyd ’54, Joe Amato, Kiko Galvez, and Beth Parks have spent the last four years working together on a revision of the Colgate-inspired Modern Introductory Physics.

As the world searches for alternative sources of energy, Bill Jorgenson ’65 is exploring an option that he acknowledges is not particularly glamorous: cow poop and garbage. Jorgenson is the managing partner of AGreen Energy LLC (AGE), an organization that has developed a process to not only generate sustainable energy from what would otherwise be […]

“It’s hot and humid out there today,” geology professor Connie Soja told a classroom full of students this July. “It feels like the Mesozoic out there.” In the absence of Colgate students, who are mostly off campus for the summer, Soja was presenting to students of a different ilk as she addressed the second- and […]

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 […]