News and Updates

The Smash Club student group has come a long way since Jonathan Morales ’18 and Marc Maggiore ’18 discovered their mutual interest.

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges became available online in 2014, more unmarried women have pursued full-time self-employment positions, according to recent findings by visiting professor of economics Meg Blume-Kohout. Her research focused on differences in the effects of the ACA on self-employment among married and single women and men in the […]

During the 7th annual Entrepreneur Weekend, more than 250 alumni, parents, students, and friends came to campus to celebrate and advance the entrepreneurial endeavors of Colgate student entrepreneurs.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet returned to Bucknell Hall to read from his works and discuss his writing process.

Confronting difficult and contentious subjects in the classroom is an essential component of a liberal arts education. Professors Jenna Reinbold and Tim Byrnestalk about how they are approaching a course that examines the American church-state debate through the lens of abortion and same-sex marriage.

Associate Professor of Biology Engda Hagos and seven current and former students have co-authored an article that was recently published in the journal Cell Communication & Adhesion. The paper, titled “Krüppel-like factor 4 mediates cellular migration and invasion by altering RhoA activity,” explores cancer cell invasion. Invasion and metastases are a spreading of cancer cells […]

Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum interviews Colgate Assistant Professor of Political Science Sam Rosenfeld in this new piece about the current state of political polarization in American politics. Rosenfeld’s newest book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, has generated national interest for how it examines the current political landscape through analysis of political party […]

Last summer, Alia Davis ’18 returned to Santa Fe, N. M., to work on a video project she felt compelled to finish. Davis first visited New Mexico during the fall of 2015 with Colgate’s Santa Fe Off-Campus Study Group, led by Professor Sarah Wider. Because the study group emphasizes community-based learning, students were placed at […]

When Reader’s Digest was looking to create a list of the world’s most famous lost treasures, they turned to Colgate’s Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland, who offered one of his favorite pieces of missing history. Read the full article online.

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]