News and Updates

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.

During winter break, January 1–19, 2019, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Ann Jane Tierney led a team of students from BIOL 341 or NEUR 385 on an extended study trip to the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key, Fla. The group participated in ongoing cognitive and behavioral research, focusing on current theories and methods in studies […]

Antonio Delgado ’99, U.S. Representative for the 19th Congressional District, will deliver the commencement address to Colgate University’s Class of 2019 on May 19, 2019.

When Elizabeth Gonzales ’19, a Chinese and international relations major from Dallas, Texas, talks about traveling to Shanghai, China, she can barely suppress her energy. Her passion for Chinese culture and language spills into the conversation as she describes her four trips to East Asia. Through an extended study program to Beijing in Spring 2016 […]

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Elodie Fourquet teaches an unusual art course. First-year students in FSEM 131 don’t come with paintbrushes or chisels; they come with graph paper, pencils, and computers.

This year has seen some of Midnight Philosophy’s largest and liveliest attendance. People filter in and out over the course of the club’s hours-long debates, but the population is rarely smaller than a full-sized class.

Lacey Williams ’16 has added some teeth to her CV. The alumna recently co-published a paper, titled “Disappearance of white sharks leads to the novel emergence of an allopatric apex predator, the sevengill shark,” in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named Colgate University as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2018–2019 academic year.

While nearly two decades separate their time at Colgate, Julie Cohen ’86, Chris White ’91, and Matt Renner ’01 will find themselves under the same roof on February 24: as executive co-producers and directors for films nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Oscars.

Since the University’s Summer Funding initiative was founded in 2013, more than $3 million has been utilized by Colgate students pursuing various summer programs worldwide.