University Studies

Colgate University is expanding its long history of involvement with research in the Adirondacks in a new collaboration with the Adirondack Research Consortium (ARC).

Colgate University’s Case Library is now designated as an official steward of thousands of U.S. presidential documents, effectively opening public access to the University’s collection of presidential writings, addresses, and public remarks dating from 1929–2017 thanks to a new agreement with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO).

Sophie Karbstein ’26 and Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies Jessica Graybill are sharing a unique faculty-led research experience this summer.

Last spring, local Little Libraries were the focus of a “little activism” project: students donated books by Indigenous authors, informing their decisions with semester-long research.

Author Yossi Klein Halevi joined the Colgate community live via Zoom from Jerusalem to discuss the current conflict between Hamas and Israel in light of recent developments.

Elizabeth Arkush, professor of archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh, delivered this year’s Aveni Lecture on April 25. 

Danny Barreto, associate professor of LGBTQ studies and director of the LGBTQ studies program, was named a NY6 Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow by the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium.

The Council on Foreign Relations has awarded geography professor and George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Daniel Monk an International Affairs Fellowship for International Relations Scholars.

On Oct. 26, Colgate University hosted two members of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) for a panel conversation titled “Exposing War Crimes in Syria and the Connection to the Ukraine Crisis.”

On the latest episode of 13, Colgate professors respond to the war in Ukraine.