News and Updates

Hamilton, NY — With personal gifts totaling $4 million, 67 current and former trustees of Colgate University have created a fund that will advance the college in honor of retiring President Neil R. Grabois. The fund was announced Tuesday evening (March 9) by Trustee Chairman Wm. Brian Little at a black tie dinner in New […]

Hamilton – Ginna Marston of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America will give a lecture titled ‘Does pop culture influence drug attitudes’ Drugs, teens, and the media’ on Wednesday, March 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 209, Lathrop Hall at Colgate University. Marston’s lecture will examine myths and misconceptions surrounding drug use and pop […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University junior Jessica Weiss will present a musical program of vocal works on Thursday, April 15, at noon in Memorial Chapel. A soprano, Weiss attended Syosset High School and studied voice with Teresa Arrigo. Since arriving at Colgate, where she is a junior, she has been a student of Neva Pilgrim. […]

Fellowship will allow Professor Heidi Ross and sophomore Janna Pistiner to travel and do research in China for a month. Hamilton – For many girls in rural areas of China, access to basic education presents a persistent struggle. In China’s poorest rural villages, school attendance among girls has actually declined during the past decade. Changes […]

Hamilton – Stephen Kuusisto, a writer who for almost forty years tried to hide the fact that he was legally blind, will give a reading from his autobiographical account Planet of the Blind at Colgate University on March 23, 1999. The Humanities Colloquium Lecture Series reading, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

Hamilton – John Koegel will participate in the college’s next Humanities Colloquium Series lecture on Tuesday, April 6. The topic of his talk, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall, will be ‘Preserving the Sounds of the ‘Old’ Southwest: Charles Lummis’s Collection of Mexican-American and Indian Music at […]

Hamilton – Yale Strom and his Hot Pstromi Klezmer Band from New York City will perform at Colgate University’s Edge Caf

Hamilton – Yale Strom and his Hot Pstromi Klezmer Band from New York City will perform at Colgate University’s Edge Caf

Hamilton – Novelist Frederick Busch, Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University, will give a reading from his most recent novel, The Night Inspector, on Monday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m. The reading will take place in the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall on the Colgate campus. A well-known critic and reviewer, Busch is […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University has elected 37 seniors to the Eta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honorary society, in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Initiation of these new members will take place on May 15 as part of Commencement Weekend activities. New members of Phi Beta Kappa promise to have ‘paramount […]