News and Updates

Provost and Dean of the Faculty Tracey E. Hucks ’87, MA ’90 will take a sabbatical during the 2021–22 academic year to complete several significant research projects.

While seemingly everyone else was growing sourdough starters at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacob Watts ’21 was growing a basement fern laboratory.

Professor Kiko Galvez and colleagues patented a new tech that decodes messages encoded in beams of light that could be the future of the telecom industry.

Wondering what’s happening in the classroom at Colgate? Here’s a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus — a syllabus from a course underway this semester.

Colgate’s administration and faculty are drawing on national best practices and creating their own innovative approaches to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in tenure-stream hiring.  

Garry Kasparov, one of the world’s greatest chess champions of all time, answered questions and talked at length about his experiences as a pro-democracy activist in a special virtual Q+A forum this week. 

Vice President and Director of Athletics Nicki Moore joins the podcast to discuss how Colgate student-athletes have returned to competition this year in an all-new episode of 13. 

Rebeccah Overton ’22 is Colgate’s latest Newman Civic Fellow, receiving a national fellowship that recognizes students who seek to create change within their communities.

Colgate, in collaboration with Community Memorial Hospital, began administering Moderna COVID-19 vaccines on campus today, in a first test of the University’s state-approved point of dispensing at the Hall of Presidents. 

Laura Jack, vice president for communications, will serve as acting CDO, providing coordination and oversight for DEI initiatives while the search for a permanent hire continues.