News and Updates

Members of the campus and area communities are invited to help celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. during numerous events scheduled Jan. 17 – 28. The celebration begins Monday at noon in Memorial Chapel, with a student-led tribute titled “Speaking Out Through the Arts.” Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst will help kick off the […]

“You’ve got two years. Good luck.” That, in a nutshell, was what ESPN editors had told Kathryn Bertine ’97 when she accepted an assignment to spend two full years trying to qualify for the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Even though it is a brand new year, we hope it’s not too late for a quick look back at 2010. Here are the five stories posted on www.colgate.edu that were viewed most often during the past year, according to data from Google Analytics:

College graduates can measure success in many ways, some material and some not so tangible. One measure that has been in the news this week focused on post-graduate salary, and Colgate found itself in very good company. Colgate was ranked eighth among undergraduate institutions in terms of earning potential, higher than schools such as Duke […]

Amy Dudley ’06, who has credited the Colgate alumni network for launching her career in the nation’s capital, has been named deputy press secretary for Vice President Joe Biden. The White House announcement released Monday said Dudley will replace longtime Biden aide Annie Tomasini at the end of the year.

Building houses out of gingerbread helped generate more than $700 that was donated to the real home-building efforts of the Madison County chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

It’s crunch time here at Colgate. With finals week coming up, everyone is keeping busy. Sharing the last classes of the year with my fellow peers is a bit sad. I made good friends in all of my classes, and I’m going to miss the times we had. Still, next semester brings a whole new […]

Conversations on world affairs take place at Colgate every day, and of course they can’t all be recorded and shared. But the highlights can. “Colgate Conversations on World Affairs” is a new series of 20-minute video interviews with visiting scholars — hosted by university president Jeffrey Herbst.

Raiders running back Nate Eachus ’12 has been named to the 2010 American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) All-American team.

An emotional service was held Monday night in Memorial Chapel in memory of Kevin Williams ’10, who died Oct. 4 after a yearlong battle with an inoperable brain tumor. The service, filled with moving songs and stories and pictures of the 22-year-old, was open to everyone who had been touched by Kevin’s short life. Kevin’s […]