News and Updates

Seth Grimes ’19,  from Manchester, N.H., writes on exploring the motivations behind violence in combat sports during his summer research opportunity.

When Colgate welcomed to campus the families of more than 800 incoming students on Sunday, August 26, returning student-athletes, Residence Life staff, and members of student clubs and organizations were on hand to help with move-in. At 815 students, the Class of 2022 represents one of the university’s largest class sizes and a wide variety […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and Professor of English, has authored a travel memoir for the New York Times.

Colgate University has been recognized as a top performer in the 2018 Sustainable Campus Index by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Innovative and forward-thinking initiatives, such as Colgate’s comprehensive wellness program, Chapel House geothermal exchange system, and continued improvements to preserve campus-owned forested land, played integral roles in achieving […]

During the summer, Colgate students are applying their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings, and they are keeping our community posted on their progress. Brady Pearlstein, sophomore cross-country student-athlete from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, writes on his summer internship at an NGO in South Africa. This summer, I interned for Student-Athletes Abroad, a […]

Colgate University has launched 200.colgate.edu, host to the online aspects of the Bicentennial celebration honoring its 200-year history and anticipating its bright future.

When Visiting Assistant Professor Rajinikanth Mohan isn’t teaching biochemistry or researching plant immunity through genetic and molecular approaches, he’s focused on cricket.

Peace and conflict studies major Theo Asher ’20, from Los Angeles, Calif., writes on his summer internship as social media production intern at FOX Sports during the recent World Cup.

While preparing to enter the Soil and Water Sciences PhD program at the University of Florida this fall, Michael Francis James ’17 worked with a committee of colleagues in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago to stage the nation’s first Pride Arts Festival. He continues to advocate for legal reform on behalf of LGBTQ citizens.

How do people experience government promoted ideas of peace after mass atrocity? Susan Thomson, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, explores this question and more in Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press).