News and Updates

  • Entering the Quad for the Activities Fair on Tuesday evening, I saw a blur of students visiting tables that represented the diversity of student clubs and organizations. Arranged systematically, the tables boasted colorful signs, bowls of candy, or, in the case of the Tea Club, warm cups of tea. Students waiting patiently to sign up […]
    September 5, 2013
  • My name is Hannah O’Malley, and this week I joined the Class of 2017. Because I attended a pre-Orientation program, I was fortunate to be able to move in a couple of days earlier. But bright-and-early at 8 a.m. on Saturday, as the WRCU DJs started to enliven the campus, I knew the highly anticipated […]
    August 26, 2013
  • Some International Student Orientation participants take a break from scheduled programming to do a little creative engineering.
    New international students arrived on campus last week, just a few days before throngs of cars packed Whitnall Field for first-year move-in day Saturday. The pre-Orientation program for international students is designed to help ease the transition for those traveling to Hamilton, N.Y., from outside the United States. Assistant Dean and Office of International Student […]
    August 25, 2013
  • During the Year of ’13 Colgate has been covered by the global media more than ever. From picturesque Hamilton, N.Y., to Perth, Australia, students, faculty, and staff have been featured by major media outlets for their expertise and compelling stories. This month’s Year of ’13 list focuses on a some of the fantastic media coverage, […]
    August 13, 2013
  • The General was a hit this past weekend as Hamilton residents, Colgate alumni, and film enthusiasts poured into the Hamilton Movie Theater.  The documentary, which focuses on the 1990 Colgate men’s hockey team, was the final film presented at the 5th annual Hamilton International Film Festival. The four-day festival, presented by Slater Brothers Entertainment, featured […]
    August 8, 2013
  • Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at Colgate’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of Colgate’s unique visualization lab.
    July 29, 2013
  • (Editor’s note: This article was written by Omar Aquije.) On a Friday evening in January, a few dozen Colgate alumni toured the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. In March, the group took part in a cheese-making class. A month later, sports fans among the New York City Club attended a Brooklyn Nets […]
    July 22, 2013
  • Personal tour of the New York Stock Exchange? Check. Daily treks up the hill three times a day from 110 Broad Street? Check. Lectures from some of Colgate’s most accomplished professors? Check. This summer, 29 students visiting campus from China’s Xiamen University enjoyed an authentic sampling of the Colgate experience. The exchange program, the brainchild […]
    July 19, 2013
  •   The Year of ’13 saw a tremendous outpouring of support for Colgate students. This week, Colgate reported that alumni, parents, and friends committed more than $48 million between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.
    July 13, 2013
  • This week, USA Today reported that Chinese students are visiting colleges and universities in the United States in an effort to learn more about getting into grad school. “U.S. summer camps are increasingly popular in countries such as China, where the rising middle class can send their children to experience American life — and possibly set […]
    July 11, 2013