News and Updates

Today is Colgate Day, as well as the official kickoff to Entrepreneur Weekend. There will be festivities all weekend including a speech by Sir Richard Branson on Friday night. Free tickets are still available online and can be picked up at the will-call window at the Sanford Field House. Following Branson’s lecture, the Colgate Resolutions will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with […]

Happy Colgate Day! As many may know, Colgate was founded by 13 men with, “13 dollars, 13 prayers, and 13 articles.” As a way of remembering this humble beginning, every Friday the 13th the Colgate community celebrates its history. All day today, students will be wearing maroon to show their Raider pride. (Take a look […]

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Between course registration, room selection, and the great speakers that came to campus this week, Colgate students have most certainly been kept busy.

When Colgate fans flood into Andy Kerr Stadium to watch a football game, they sit in the Fred Dunlap Stands. When the Raiders win a Patriot League football championship, they hoist the Fred Dunlap Trophy. Now, thanks to a new endowment created in honor of that legendary coach and athletic director, Colgate’s team will be […]

On Colgate Day, Friday, April 13, at 6 p.m., the university will kick off Entrepreneur Weekend with a public talk by Sir Richard Branson, one of the world’s best-known entrepreneurs. Free tickets may be reserved online and picked up the day of the event at the Colgate Bookstore or the will call window at Sanford […]

Running up and down the aisles of Love Auditorium on Tuesday night, Erik Stolhanske ‘91 began his inspirational lecture like a basketball star, giving out high fives to students on the ends of each aisle.

This week I attended a variety of lectures and learned that Colgate never fails to bring great speakers and presentations to campus. On Tuesday, as part of my Challenges of Modernity class, I attended a film screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema.

Curling at Colgate? You bet. Not only is there a longtime student club team that competes, there are faculty and staff members who enjoy the game that is gaining popularity in the States but is still most widely known north of the border in Canada. In fact, Matt Hames, manager of media communications, is the […]

Austin Smith ’12, who led the nation in goals with 36, became the first-ever Colgate hockey player to be selected as a top-three finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, which is given to the nation’s top player.