Student Profiles

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 […]

Christina Weiler ’21 believes in the value of waste. The truth about waste, she says, is that it is a part of us, and we are responsible for it. In order to put plastic in a place where it belongs, Weiler came up with the UCan project, a beverage container recycling initiative that gives its […]

The following is by Ed Fogarty, associate professor of political science, director of the International Relations program, and Eurosim faculty adviser. January 4–7, 2018, a delegation of 14 Colgate students traveled to Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 31st meeting of Eurosim, a Model European Union program in which university students from Europe and the […]

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 […]

Aidan Gaertner ’20 (pictured, on right) and his family were honored with the “2017 Outstanding Family Award” at the Special Olympics of Minnesota’s annual Distinguished Service Awards ceremony on September 8. Gaertner got involved with the Special Olympics when his aunt, the head coach of the Roseville Flames Special Olympics team in Minnesota, asked him […]

Colgate students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Christine Horn ’19, from Corning, N.Y., wrote this dispatch about her research, funded through the Beckman Scholars Program. Has the agriculture industry’s selection of redder, juicier, […]

Studio art major Kris Pfister ’17, of Iberia, Ohio, wanted their senior thesis to be more than a gallery piece. Pfister wanted the work directly to address the issue of homelessness among the LGBTQ community. Sure, the work, “Casting Off,” would live in a gallery during an annual senior art exhibition, but the reach of […]

The day Jackson Patterson ’17 committed to play lacrosse at Colgate was the same day doctors diagnosed him with cancer. This year, cancer free, he was captain of the team. Watch his story.

Kevin Iglesias ’17, of Silver Spring, Md., has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to travel to Brazil to study public health. Iglesias, a peace and conflict studies major, will conduct research in the city of Salvador, Bahia, on the relationship between black/Afro-Brazilian LGBT identities and ethnic forms of traditional healing in Afro-Matrix Religions (AMR). […]

Lisa Heller ’18 has reached out to the world through her music, and the world is reaching back.