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Giving back to the community often involves application of old-fashioned elbow grease, but sometimes it’s also a good game of kickball accompanied by a big smile and laughter. A new video captures a few moments during an August 21 day of service in Utica in which nearly 40 first-year students pitched in to help nonprofit […]

This post is by Jessica Rice ’16 As students are concluding their second full week of school, there are tons of events happening around campus. It’s going to be a busy week at Colgate with Homecoming Weekend around the corner, so here are some of the events you don’t want to miss.

Professors researching a wide array of subjects — from privacy software to fieldwork in the Galapagos — recently received National Science Foundation grant awards totaling $1,328,055.

Editor’s note: This report was co-authored by Hannah O’Malley ’17 and Kellyann Hayes ’16 Colgate has been participating in the nationwide conversation about race relations in response to the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American who was unarmed when he was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

Colgate University and Hamilton College, who last year forged a unique partnership as contributing members in edX, recently received a $91,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further their exploration of online learning technologies within the residential liberal arts context. The two schools also will use the grant to foster collaborative ties with […]

Colgate will hold a service of remembrance and interfaith prayer at noon Thursday in Memorial Chapel to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Seven alumni were among the 2,977 people killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. An untold number were, and still are, deeply affected by the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

As the fall semester kicks into gear with this first full week of classes, the first-year students are not the only new faces in Colgate classrooms. Douglas Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty, recently introduced the campus to new faculty scholars whose “dynamism and enthusiasm” will help to enrich the Colgate experience for students […]

Michael Johnston, Charles A. Dana professor of political science, has been collaborating with Bertram Levine ’63, now a political science professor at Rutgers, for decades. The two scholars recently co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post called “Making campaign contributions anonymous.”