News and Updates

Colgate’s Earth Day celebration transformed the Ho Science Center atrium into an environmental carnival. Live music by student bands and a vegan barbeque complemented the table displays representing this semester’s Green Summit initiatives. Following the planting of 200 tree saplings on the former university ski hill, students, faculty, and community members gathered to learn more […]

According to Buddhist teaching, giving is an act that can transform and purify the mind. On Tuesday at the ALANA Cultural Center, approximately 30 members of the Colgate community took part in a 2,500-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist ceremony of alms giving called a Dana.

  Even though it has been 17 years since Kirk Bloodsworth, wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for rape and murder, was freed from the confinement of a jail cell, the memories of his incarceration still haunt him. “It’s a constant struggle. You never escape the pain of being locked up for a crime you […]

Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will visit Colgate University in October for the next edition of the university’s Global Leaders Lecture Series. Blair is scheduled to give a public talk at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, in Sanford Field House. Ticket information will be released in August.

James H. Cone, widely credited with founding the black theology movement, spoke Thursday in Memorial Chapel about his seminal works from nearly 40 years ago and his current research, which focuses on the emotional symbols of the cross and the lynching tree. Cone said his lecture was intended to start a conversation, and students and […]

A collaborative student initiative turned into a vehicle of support for the region and a timely response to a tragedy that struck an immigration services center in Binghamton. The Latin American Student Organization, Korean American Student Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and the Center for Outreach and Volunteerism co-sponsored the Refugee Benefit Banquet last Friday to […]

Charles Simic, 2007 poet laureate, delighted an intent audience with his dark humor on Tuesday night in the Robert Ho Lecture Room. “The corpses like cigarette butts. In a dinner plate overflowing with ashes,” he read from the title poem of his latest book, That Little Something.

Darryl Hunt and Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated after spending decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit, will share their stories with the Colgate community as part of a three-day symposium about wrongful convictions. During their campus visit April 19-21, Hunt and Bloodsworth will discuss how their unwavering determination to prove their innocence combined with […]

When Ingrid Hale, director of Colgate’s Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE), looks up from her desk to see who has walked through the center’s doors, odds are it is a female student. “There is a gender disparity in volunteering not only on our campus, but also at colleges across the country,” said Hale. […]

This past weekend marked Colgate’s fourth annual Big Gay Weekend, a three-day event that provides LGBTQ and allied students with the opportunity to socialize and network with peers. The keynote speaker was bestselling author, film producer, and gay rights activist Perry Moore, who is best known as executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film […]