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What activates your inner nerd? President Brian W. Casey is a self-confessed campus architecture nerd. Casey presented on his obsession during Brown Commons’s inaugural Nerd Nite lecture, “Set in Stone: The Role Architecture Plays in Institutions of Higher Education.” Surrounded by a group of professors, students, and members of the Hamilton community, Casey made a […]

Colgate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Ellen Percy Kraly has been named as one of the 2018 WCNY Makers: Women Who Make America, for her work with refugee populations in Utica, N.Y., and at the United Nations. “My teaching at colgate has always been connected communities and introduce our students to community leaders.  I […]

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 […]

When Reader’s Digest was looking to create a list of the world’s most famous lost treasures, they turned to Colgate’s Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland, who offered one of his favorite pieces of missing history. Read the full article online.

Weston Testo ’12 arrived at Colgate as an undergraduate in 2008, the same year that James “Eddie” Watkins joined Colgate's faculty in the Department of Biology. In the 10 years since, Testo has grown from one of Watkins’s undergraduate students to one of his trusted colleagues.

Professors Chris Vecsey and Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky will share the 2018 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]

Step back in time with Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland as he shares what it was like in a day in the life of an ancient Athenian. This new animated video was produced by Ted-Ed. Garland’s academic work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal […]