News and Updates

Tune In Listen to a podcast interview with Johnston. Chosen from among 50 nominations worldwide, Michael Johnston, Charles A. Dana Professor of political science at Colgate University, has won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, which carries with it a significant cash prize. Johnston earned the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for ideas he […]

The signs in Frank Dining Hall began appearing this fall: beans and grains from Cayuga Pure Organics, local fruit from Red Jacket Orchards, hormone-free pork from Certified Natural NY. And with that, Colgate’s foray into purchasing, serving, and publicly supporting local foods officially began. Though the campus is surrounded by acres of fertile farmland, serving […]

L’dor Vador, from generation to generation. That was the message in New York City on November 6, 2008, when nearly 200 alumni, parents, and friends gathered to celebrate the vibrancy and importance of Jewish studies and Jewish life at Colgate. With Jewish studies faculty on hand, along with some of Colgate’s most outstanding Jewish students […]

The following is a message from President Rebecca Chopp to the Colgate community: As we begin this week of Thanksgiving, we are mindful both of all that we as a nation and a campus community have to be grateful for and of the challenges that we must be prepared to face moving forward. Through it […]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Colgate University in April 2009 as part of the Global Leaders Lecture Series. On Friday, April 3, Powell is scheduled to give a public talk at Colgate. More details about the lecture, including time and ticket information, will be released at a later date.

The Patriot League title as safely secured as the pigskin in Jordan Scott’s hands, the Colgate Raiders will now head to Villanova on Saturday to play the Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Football Subdivision Championship. Colgate is making its eighth appearance in the playoffs, and first since the 2005 season. Kickoff is […]

The men’s soccer team is in, having won the Patriot League title and a spot in the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year. The men’s football team wants in, and by winning a critical match-up against Holy Cross on Saturday it would capture the Patriot League championship and receive an automatic berth in the […]

Colgate students packed into Lathrop Hall Monday night 30 minutes before the guest speaker was to begin. When Helen Sperling entered the room she implored the standing students to try and find empty seats, asking them not to make her feel guilty because she had a lot to say. Sperling is a Polish Jew and […]

You can really clean up with $700. Just ask the students in economics professor Nicole Simpson’s Immigration course. The first-year seminar analyzes the causes and consequences of immigration in America, and Simpson often looks for opportunities to give her students service-learning experiences that reinforce what they learn in class.

Members of Colgate’s cycling club are dusting off old bikes and putting them in the hands of central New York families who need them most. “Local children and adults are getting mileage out of bikes that otherwise would have sat in garages or basements,” said Ben Roshko’09, cycling club president.