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Colgate Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Penny Lane joins Gal Gadot, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, and Betty White as one of 774 new members invited into The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week. According to Variety, Lane is part of the largest group of invitees in Academy history, and is […]

New research sheds some surprising light on the state’s opioid crisis. “The heroin epidemic really dates back to 2010, 2011,” said Dr. Ann Gadomski, head of the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown, which conducted opioid research in collaboration with the Colgate University Upstate Institute in Hamilton.

Chemistry professor Ernie Nolen has spent his career building complex synthetic molecules. Now he is bringing his expertise to detecting and defeating diseases like cancer.

Colgate study groups allow students to study off campus for a semester while immersing themselves in new cultures, perspectives, and experiences. Last semester, a group of students in Colgate’s Africana and Latin American Studies Program studied at the University of the West Indies at Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. The Mona campus was once the location […]

Colgate neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak — and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder. Professor Wan-Chun Liu’s lab is filled with the mellifluous tweets and squeaks of zebra finches, a small songbird native to Australia. The birds are highly social animals […]

A British iPad drawing, beaded Cameroonian sculpture, battle helmet–turned-lyre, and an Impressionist oil painting all may have been created oceans apart, but these works have come together in Hamilton, N.Y. They’re four of many pieces on display in the Picker Art Gallery’s exhibition Colgate Alumni Collect, which merges the artistic mindsets of four alumni who collect […]

Sunday, June 11, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s United Shades of America: “Comic book wizard Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez created ‘La Borinquena,’ a superhero who appeals to a multicultural audience.”

Students exploring careers in the media and alumni looking to network with fellow graduates came together in Manhattan last month to hear from some of the university’s leading members of the fourth estate. In a professional network panel conversation titled “The Challenges Facing Journalism in the Age of New Media,” Thomson Reuters National Journalist Lisa […]