News and Updates

Nicki Moore has been selected to lead Colgate’s athletics, recreation and physical education programs, following a national search for a new athletics director.

We asked students to tell us about a valuable lesson from the spring semester: “In my electronics class, my partner and I made our own version of Guitar Hero. I went into the class knowing nothing about electronics to creating and programming my own video game.” — Jacob Pilawa ’20, physics and astronomy and French […]

April 23 marks the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth and death — and, yes, he died on his birthday. In 2016, to celebrate his 400th birthday, Colgate’s Special Collections and University Archives brought out rare items from the Shakespeare collection, including a first and third folio. The term “folio” denotes a particular printing size in which a […]

Today, the university held one of its best-known traditions: Dancefest. This year, the event marked its 20th anniversary. Follow the timeline, and take a look back at past years’ festivities.     If you couldn’t be there in person, you can still watch Dancefest via our Livestream archive.  

For Brandon Doby ’18 and Lauren Sanderson ’18, entrepreneurship exists at the intersection of business acumen and creative risk. These two seniors are both artists and business owners: They created ISO Film, a production company, as a Thought Into Action (TIA) venture in 2016, and have been making experimental films together ever since. “To sustain […]

A major exhibition of photographs, This Place explores Israel and the West Bank “as place and metaphor” through the eyes of 12 internationally acclaimed artists. Because the exhibition is divided among four collegiate art galleries, it has presented a perfect opportunity for museum studies students to apply what they’ve learned outside of the classroom. Professor […]

Colgate men’s track and field junior Oliver Moe has been named to the United States Olympic Committee’s Finding Leaders Among Minorities Everywhere (FLAME) program.

CNN notes, “As the number of Congressmen and Senators who’ve served in the military has fallen, Congress has tended to let Presidents decide about use of force.” Assistant Professor of Political Science Danielle Lupton appeared live to elaborate, based on her research.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence Coalition is collaborating with groups across campus on a variety of events.

Spring has not yet arrived at Colgate but, with so much to celebrate, our community is as vibrant as ever. Here are 13 things that are causing excitement at Colgate right now.