News and Updates

More than 200 Colgate alumni and friends joined the Colgate Real Estate Council last month for a conversation on eCommerce and the changing face of retail sales.

The 2017 Libris Iconic Images capture many of the year’s most memorable moments, from the total solar eclipse to the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. They take us to the sidelines of the NFL and the flooded streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico. But they also capture moments of beauty in everyday life as well. They invite us to pause, to reflect and to remember.

Ronan Farrow, author of the explosive Harvey Weinstein sexual assault and harassment investigation published in the New Yorker, recently spoke with a crowd of Colgate students about the future of journalism. Farrow rose to prominence following his 10-month investigation into Weinstein’s history, including interviews with 13 women who spoke out against the famous producer. The resulting story […]

Growing up in Hong Kong, Stephanie Wu ‘18 hardly thought about race at all. When she came to the United States to study psychology at Colgate, she was in for a new experience. “My race was suddenly so salient,” Wu said. That profound shift in the way Wu experienced her racial identity has prompted her […]

Can war be both politically advantageous and morally just? According to Professor Valerie Morkevicius, the answer to this question is complicated.

Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy and his students are using NASA grant funding and images taken from the Mars Orbiter Mission to study glaciers on the red planet in an effort to further understand how that planet’s climate has changed throughout history. Images provided by the orbiter are of such high resolution that researchers on […]

Colgate’s Green Revolving Loan Fund is a newly-launched  initiative geared toward reducing the university’s carbon footprint, and staff in the Buildings and Grounds Department are already leading the way with the fund’s first energy-saving project. The loan fund, which is seeded with $230,000, is designed to support significant physical upgrades that have a clear, measurable […]

Colgate’s Class of 1965 Arena has earned LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, thanks to sustainable building methods and systems. Since opening the LEED Gold Trudy Fitness Center in 2011, Colgate has committed to green building practices for all new construction and major renovations, with a minimum goal of LEED Silver certification. […]

Editor’s note: 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. The Booker Prize: Examining a Prize, Examining an Empire CJ Hauser, Assistant Professor of English MWF 9:20–10:20 AM, Lathrop Hall 314 Course description This class follows the […]