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Golden Auditorium was hear-a-pin-drop quiet Thursday night as Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, read selections of his work for audience members weighing his every word and inflection. On Friday night, it was different. Donovan’s Pub in James C. Colgate Hall was rattle-the-walls loud as Muldoon and fellow band members played guitar-driven rock songs infused […]

Colgate professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus. The series – Colgate Conversations: Writers and their craft – features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. […]

He’s been called “one of the most exhilarating of all living poets.” The Colgate community will receive a literary treat from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon when he reads from his collection of poetry at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Golden Auditorium. Muldoon’s coming to Colgate as part of the Living Writers Series, co-sponsored by the […]

Next time you watch the presidential candidates speak, pay close attention to their unspoken language–signals such as facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures. What the candidates don’t say could actually speak volumes about them, according to psychology professor Carrie Keating, an expert in facial characteristics and gestures.

“To have Susan Marshall on campus is a really big deal.” That is how Emily Rawdon ’10 described the recent visit to Colgate University by Susan Marshall & Company, a renowned dance company based in New York City.

Instead of rushing home when the last school bell of the day rings, budding Hamilton area artists are heading to the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. On Monday afternoons, the Picker is transformed into a classroom as inquisitive 6-to 10- year olds let their imaginations run wild while attending the gallery’s after-school art club.

Her work has been called “whimsical,” “powerful,” “sexy,” and “surreal.” Susan Marshall & Company, one of the most innovative dance companies in the world, is coming to campus this week as part of ArtsMix and Colgate’s Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Transformation, an exhibition of mixed media sculptures by Carol Cole, is on display through Feb. 17 in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology on the second floor of Alumni Hall. Made of polystyrene, handmade paper, paint, and found objects, the work is inspired by the artifacts of ancient and tribal artists and architects.