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Aidan Gaertner ’20 (pictured, on right) and his family were honored with the “2017 Outstanding Family Award” at the Special Olympics of Minnesota’s annual Distinguished Service Awards ceremony on September 8. Gaertner got involved with the Special Olympics when his aunt, the head coach of the Roseville Flames Special Olympics team in Minnesota, asked him […]

  A fledgling idea, born during an airport layover and cultivated with the help of Colgate’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Incubator, has landed a recent alumnus on the two-hour season premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank, Sunday, October 1, at 8 p.m. While a press embargo restricts what exactly happened when Ryan Diew ’17 plunged into […]

Residents of Madison County and students of Colgate University and other nearby colleges now have access to a newly launched Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program at Community Memorial Hospital. This initiative — a collaboration between Colgate, the hospital, and Madison County’s Liberty Resources/Help Restore Hope Center — provides five specially trained nurses to offer […]

A Swinging ’Gates alumna has added another Emmy to her list of accomplishments. Audrey Morrissey ’89 received the award this month for her work as an executive producer of The Voice, a television show in its 12th season on NBC. The show’s producers were given the award for outstanding reality program that uses a competition format. […]

General David H. Petraeus (U.S. Army, retired) will visit campus to speak with students and the local community during Colgate’s Family Weekend, Saturday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Professor Robert Kraynak, political science professor and director of Colgate’s Center for Freedom and Western Civilization will be the host and moderator. […]

It was a perfect weekend to come home. Colgate Homecoming 2017 attracted students, faculty, alumni, parents, and friends en masse, September 8–9. Men’s soccer started the festivities off right, taking down Oregon State 1–0. It was the team’s first victory over a Pac-12 challenger. Field Hockey battled Lock Haven before the homecoming crowds descended on […]

Welcome! We’ve just enacted a rather odd ritual. You the class of 2021 stood in a circle and looked at us. We the Faculty walked around that circle and looked at you. You’re dressed in smart clothes. We’re dressed in fancy clothes. You have just experienced what social anthropologists call a rite (that’s r-i-t-e) of […]

Colgate welcomed a host of new faculty members diverse in background and expertise in August, introducing a fresh group of faces and reintroducing some familiar ones in new roles. Four former visiting professors -— Sally Bonet, educational studies; Jennifer LeMesurier, writing and rhetoric; Andrew Pattison, environmental studies; and Ashley Taylor, educational studies -— have been […]