News and Updates

Hamilton, NY — Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator John McCain has accepted Colgate University’s invitation to address the graduating Class of 2000 at its Commencement on Sunday, May 21 in Hamilton, New York. Colgate’s senior class is made up of nearly 700 students and the May event will stand as Colgate University’s 179th commencement ceremony. […]

Hamilton, NY — The Colgate University Orchestra, Marietta Cheng, conductor, will open its first concert of the winter season with Dvorak’s rollicking Scherzo Capriccioso, on Sunday afternoon, February 27, at 3:30 p.m. The program will also feature one of the orchestral repertoire’s most impassioned works, Rachmaninov’s stunning Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 2, […]

Hamilton, NY — Storyteller Alicia Quintano will perform an original monologue from her one-woman show Love is Hell & Other Stories in Colgate University’s Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public and is being co-sponsored by the interdepartmental campus committee Fighting Eating Disorders, the […]

Hamilton, NY — Violinist Midori, who first came to public attention at age 10 when she debuted with the New York Philharmonic, and her partner-pianist Robert McDonald, will be in residence March 4 and 5 at Colgate University. During that time the two will perform and hold masterclasses, and Midori will give a public lecture. […]

Hamilton, NY — A program titled ‘Contemporary music with bass in mind’ will be presented by Darryl Pugh, teacher of bass at Colgate, on Tuesday, February 29 at noon in Colgate Memorial Chapel. The works are all modern double bass pieces in an acoustic environment, dating from the last quarter of the 20th century. A […]

Hamilton, NY — – Each year, hundreds of Colgate University students participate in a wide variety of off-campus study programs that provide a rich mixture of cultural experience and academic discipline. Most of Colgate’s study groups are led by the school’s own faculty members, which provides a measure of control over the program and continuity […]

HAMILTON – The Manhattan String Quartet will be in residence at Colgate University November 17 through 19, 1999 to participate in the university’s Core program classes and perform two concerts in the Chapel. On Thursday, November 18 at 5:00 p.m., the quartet will perform Webern’s Five Pieces for String Quartet. Joscelyn Godwin, professor of music, […]

Hamilton ‘ Judy Collischan, associate director of curatorial affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY-Purchase, will speak about public sculpture at the Colgate Humanities Faculty Colloquium on Tuesday, November 9 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. Colgate is considering plans to purchase, in the near future, a series of […]

HAMILTON ‘ Fulbright scholar and writer/translator Marguerite Feitlowitz will discuss her recent book ‘A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture’ at Colgate University’s Humanities Colloquium on Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall. Feitlowitz’s book focuses on the last dictatorship (1976-83) in Argentina, in which some […]

HAMILTON ‘ Jim Crace, whom John Updike has called ‘a writer of hallucinatory skill and considerable cruelty,’ will participate in the 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University on Thursday, November 11. After an early afternoon conversation in class with students, he will give a free public reading from his book Quarantine at 4:30 p.m. […]