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Students, faculty, staff, and local community members gathered at Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery last week to celebrate the launch of a new exhibition, Chuck Close: Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, 2000.

Colgate celebrated the sciences this weekend with two major events: the dedication of the new Robert H.N. Ho Science Center and the launch of the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sciences and Mathematics.

Alumni, coaches, family, and friends from around the country arrived at the Colgate Inn on Friday, May 4, to pay a unique tribute to the late Swimming and Diving Coach Mark Randall.

A day after launching Colgate’s new fundraising campaign with a festive celebratory dinner, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and students settled down to business. They convened on Saturday, March 3, for “Liberal Arts in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Symposium with Colgate Faculty and Staff.”

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, an activist and theologian, delivered the baccalaureate address during Colgate University’s 185th commencement on May 21, 2006. Buenos días. Please pray with me: God, you who are a mother and father to all, you who have created us, purify my heart and my lips as you once purified those of prophet Isaiah with […]

Eliot Spitzer, champion of all things New York, implored Colgate University graduates on Sunday to stay in the Empire State “for the sake of our collective future.” Prior to his 10-minute speech, delivered outside in a steady rain and 45-degree temperature, Spitzer, attorney general of New York and Democratic candidate for governor, received an honorary […]

Colgate University has produced a remarkable number of alumni who have made important contributions in areas such as journalism, business, entertainment, government, science, and sports. There are easily recognizable names, such as 60 Minutes commentator and columnist Andy Rooney ’42, and others that are less so. Trivia buffs, for example, might not know that two […]

NIH study group helps Jash Datta turn dream into reality

Liegl comes to Colgate after spending the previous two seasons at Findlay University