News and Updates

The USA Today College section featured an interview with Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs at Colgate. The article is called “College students revolutionize meaning of MLK Day,” and it talks about the changing message of Martin Luther King Jr.

In many universities and academic settings, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is celebrated on one day.  At Colgate, it will be celebrated for an entire week. Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs and main organizer of MLK Week, explained that Colgate has “so many different faculty members and other people who want to be […]

Alumni ranging from the Class of 1952 through 2013 will be interacting with each other and with current students through an online academic project based on The Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp. More than 330 alumni have signed up so far (registration remains open) for the […]

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has been awarded a three-year $1.25 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support new collaborations in the areas of globalization and language learning. The six consortium members are Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, St. Lawrence University, Skidmore College, and Union College. […]

Oswald (Ozzie) A. Honkalehto, professor of economics emeritus who taught at Colgate from 1962 to 1995, died Sunday, December 29, 2013, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. Honkalehto taught courses in macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and the department’s honors seminar, which he originated.  He also was  responsible for developing the mathematical economics concentration soon after […]

(Editor’s Note: This story was written by Allison A. Curley ’04) People usually come to plastic surgeon Ricardo Rodriguez ’76 to eliminate excess fat — but he will tell you that the lumpy stuff is not all bad. In fact, removing a patient’s fat during liposuction and injecting it back into another area of the […]

Because of severe weather and expected poor driving conditions, the university will delay opening until 10 a.m. Friday, January 3.

(Editor’s Note:  Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst is a co-signer of this statement.) We the presidents of the six schools that make up the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium (Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore College, St. Lawrence University, Union College) reject the call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions […]

(Editor’s Note: This alumni profile was written by Anne Stein) Amid the sparkle of Kate Spade handbags, Under Armour apparel, and Tommy Bahama jackets, the Von Maur department store retains an old-fashioned air of hospitality. Tall vases of flowers and antique wood furnishings are set throughout the displays, while a pianist seated by the first-floor […]

We asked students, 13 of them, of course, to each share a highlight from the past year at Colgate. The students were in the library finishing papers and prepping for finals before leaving for winter break. (Also see this look back at the Year of ’13.) Manuel Heredia-Santoyo ‘14 Sonoma, Calif. Art and art history […]