News and Updates

(Editor’s note: The Dalai Lama’s visit has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 22.) The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will visit Colgate University in April as part of the Global Leaders Lecture Series. On Thursday, April 24, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public […]

“Stick your neck out.” Those were the words of wisdom from John Graham, motivational speaker and philanthropist, during his visit to Colgate University, which included a brown bag lunch, presentation, and a lecture at Memorial Chapel. Hoping to inspire people to make a difference by taking risks, or in his words “sticking their neck out,” […]

Pink is the new maroon this weekend at Starr Rink. The women’s hockey team will be playing in specially designed pink jerseys during its 7 p.m. Friday game against St. Lawrence and then again at 4 p.m. Saturday against Clarkson. Raiders fans can show their support for the team and for the fight against cancer […]

Desperate times call for creative measures. To encourage innovative solutions to environmental crises, the arts and activism are teaming up on campus through a series of events titled Environmental Art and New Media Technology: Imagining Sustainable Future. “It’s a time in history when the old models and ways of doing things are not going to […]

It was billed as a humanities colloquium, but there was a whole lot of science going on. That’s because Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Yukari Hirata, associate professor of Japanese, were presenting the results of their neurolinguistic research, and their official sponsor was the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Study in […]

As Colgate University junior Jeremy Bennett ’09 studies in London this semester, he’s getting a real-life lesson in personal finances. Every fish and chips dinner, hostel stay, and souvenir is taking a big bite out of Bennett’s wallet. He and thousands of other students studying abroad can blame the weak U.S. dollar, which is making […]

The Colgate community on Thursday took part in a nationwide discussion about global warming. Nearly 20 discussions, workshops, and film screenings were held as part of Focus the Nation, a teach-in focused on finding solutions to global warming and to raising the issue’s political profile. The campuswide effort, organized by a team of 30 students […]

The radio show must go on. And so it did for Arnie Arnesen, a political analyst and longtime radio and TV show host who visited Colgate Tuesday to talk to students about the presidential primaries. Arnesen has been on talk radio for nearly 20 years, and each weekday hosts the Chowder in the Morning program, […]

Many Colgate students are focused on the environment and they want the rest of the country to be, too. A team of 30 students working with Robert Turner, professor of economics and environmental studies, organized campus events as part of Focus the Nation, a national teach-in centered on finding solutions to global warming

Colgate students taking part in the Model European Union (EuroSim) conference in Germany had the chance to tackle pressing issues such as independence for Kosovo and the image of the European Union. The international conference was held the first week of January at the European Academy in Otzenhausen, Germany. Assistant professor of political science Mai’a […]