University Studies

Members of the faculty in the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies take their passion for their work well beyond the walls of the classroom. Over the past year they have traveled the globe, prepared and published significant academic works, and worked with Colgate students both on and off campus. Here is a sampling of […]

Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of sociology and anthropology emeritus, passed away after a long illness in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Monday, July 30, at the age of 78. Born in the Republic of Panama of West Indian ancestry, Bryce-Laporte earned degrees from Panama Canal College (AA), the University of […]

For Colgate student Maggie Dunne ’13, one good deed yields another — and another — and another. As winner of the 2012 grand prize in Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women Competition, she received $20,000 for the work she has accomplished through her nonprofit Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project. At the ceremony, she announced […]

Depending on who you ask, iPhone photography, viral videos, and massive amounts of citizen-generated content have either harkened a new Golden Age of visual culture, or distorted reality beyond recognition.

The late Manning Marable, founding director of the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at Colgate, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history today, honored for a Malcolm X book he worked on for years but did not live to see published. Marable died April 1, 2011, at age 60 just as “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” […]

To paraphrase Michael Stipe and R.E.M., 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it. And pioneering archaeoastronomer Tony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies, has every reason to feel fine.

Maggie Dunne ’13, already recognized on campus for her entrepreneurial and philanthropic successes, has now been recognized on a national scale after being named one of Glamour‘s  Top 10 College Women for 2012 and receiving the $20,000 grand prize presented by the magazine. The magazine highlights 10 dynamic young women who show campus leadership, scholastic […]

A group of 15 students will spend their spring break on the Caribbean island of Martinique — not as tourists, but as part of an interdisciplinary trip exploring the historic, linguistic, cultural, and environmental features of the island nation.

On a bright morning at the end of July, Colgate graduate Eric Noyes ’86 found himself in a rental car, taking two elders from the Crow and Cheyenne American Indian tribes for a drive up into the hills of Onondaga County south of Syracuse, N.Y.

Ten Colgate students studying French accompanied Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, of the Department of Romance Languages, on an educational trip to the French island of Martinique during spring break 2011.