News and Updates

  • Students walk outside of Case Library in the fall
    Colgate University is excited to announce two new changes to the admission process to help reduce application costs for all prospective students. Colgate will now accept self-reported ACT or SAT scores for all applicants. Students may list their test scores in either the Common Application or Coalition Application for them to be considered. Additionally, students […]
    October 31, 2017
  • Monuments men looking at art found in the Altaussee salt mine during WWII
    During WWII, the Mona Lisa was moved five times to keep it safe from looters. But other works of art and cultural materials weren’t so lucky.  Under the direction of Adolf Hitler, the Germans looted paintings, church bells, Torahs, and more. Enter the Monuments Men, who were cultural-preservation officers recruited by the Allies to protect […]
    October 30, 2017
  • James B. Colgate Hall
    For some high schoolers, the path to college can be complicated by obstacles that limit their college options. Colgate in Focus, a diversity open house and special visit experience, seeks to help students who are overcoming challenges in their pursuit of post-secondary education. Colgate hosted the three-day, two-night program last week for 68 talented high […]
    October 30, 2017
  • Portrait of Professor Jerry Balmuth
    Jerome Balmuth, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion emeritus, passed away Thursday, September 28. Balmuth’s storied career at Colgate began in 1954, when he joined the Department of Philosophy and Religion after receiving his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and an MA in philosophy from Cornell University. In 1995 he was named Harry […]
    October 25, 2017
  • Extras on the set of the Pottersville movie
    More than a year after the cast and crew of Pottersville descended on Hamilton to film, the indie comedy returns to town for its world premiere at the Hamilton Movie Theater. The film’s plot centers on a small-town man named Maynard, played by Michael Shannon, who is mistaken for Bigfoot while drunkenly cavorting in a […]
    October 19, 2017
  • Ryan Diew '17 in the Thought Into Action incubator space
      A fledgling idea, born during an airport layover and cultivated with the help of Colgate’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Incubator, has landed a recent alumnus on the two-hour season premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank, Sunday, October 1, at 8 p.m. While a press embargo restricts what exactly happened when Ryan Diew ’17 plunged into […]
    September 25, 2017