News and Updates

It pays to coach Little League. For Kevin Briody ’85, it led to a Daytime Emmy award. While coaching his son Cavan’s Triple-A baseball team in Ridgefield, Conn., Briody, a folk singer-songwriter, had made the acquaintance of another player’s dad, who also happened to be a songwriter. In fact, he was Paul Glass, music supervisor […]

What’s a Colgate University degree worth? A study released Wednesday by PayScale, which was reported in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, may shed some light on that question.

Colgate football players hope their strength and endurance pay off for charities that help fight rare diseases. At the “Lift for Life” fundraiser Friday, about 35 players will compete against each other in lifting and skills competitions.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy ’83 covered the National Football League for six years and is in his 15th year of covering college football. In the most recent episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series highlighting members of the campus community, Murphy had this to say: — The NFL is run by pinched, unsmiling […]

Participants in a Greek Life Summit met on campus last weekend to discuss the past, evaluate the present, and envision the future for Colgate chapters. Five representatives from each of the 10 fraternities and sororities on campus collaborated with staff members, local advisers, and alumni representatives. In all, more than 70 people contributed to the dialogue that was […]

(Editor’s Note: Adriana was one of 12 students who traveled to Uganda this summer as part of a Colgate extended study course.) As I reflect on my experiences of the past few weeks, I find hard to believe that I actually lived in the middle of a Ugandan village for almost an entire month. Upon first […]

Spend three weeks in Japan as part of a Colgate extended study course that provides you with access and interactions that no tourist could begin to imagine. Check. Fly home to Utah, spend one jet-lagged day asleep, and then drive to Colgate, passing through the flooded cities of Iowa on the way. Check.

Not too many people need to know how to say ‘pole vault’ in German. But Alisandra Denton ’10, a molecular biology major and pole-vaulter, might find the word Stabhochsprung useful this summer as she pursues a unique internship. In the city of Mainz, Germany, Denton is gaining research experience as well as strengthening her language […]

Colgate President Rebecca Chopp and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs have announced the appointment of Dr. Keenan Grenell as the university’s Vice President and Dean of Diversity. The following is drawn from the message shared with the Colgate community. Grenell comes to Colgate from Marquette University, where he served as Associate Provost for Diversity […]

If ever there were a poster child for upstate New York, Kevin McAvey ’05 would be it. Like so many of his Colgate friends, McAvey left the area after graduation, but, he says, his “heart stayed in the upstate New York region.” “There’s still not a day I don’t cross that border into upstate that […]