• Join us from January 20 - 24, 2014, as we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
    The USA Today College section featured an interview with Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs at Colgate. The article is called “College students revolutionize meaning of MLK Day,” and it talks about the changing message of Martin Luther King Jr.
    January 22, 2014
  • Eight Colgate students spent two days in New York City to learn about careers in commercial real estate from Colgate alumni working at some of the industry’s biggest firms. On January 15 and 16, the Colgate Real Estate Council hosted an introduction-to-real-estate trip, which consisted of 10 sessions with professionals who spoke about different aspects […]
    January 21, 2014
  • Benjamin Todd Jealous
    In many universities and academic settings, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is celebrated on one day.  At Colgate, it will be celebrated for an entire week. Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs and main organizer of MLK Week, explained that Colgate has “so many different faculty members and other people who want to be […]
    January 20, 2014
  • advent of the atomic bomb
    Alumni ranging from the Class of 1952 through 2013 will be interacting with each other and with current students through an online academic project based on The Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp. More than 330 alumni have signed up so far (registration remains open) for the […]
    January 17, 2014
  • Arielle Sperling '14 worked as an intern in Idaho for the Henry’s Fork Foundation.
    Before last summer, Arielle Sperling ’14 hadn’t so much as gone fishing, never mind touched a fish. But during her internship in Ashton, Idaho, Sperling found herself hip-deep in trout. The environmental studies major from White Plains, N.Y., was the only Colgate student in a group of researchers who were looking at the habitat selection […]
    January 16, 2014
  • (Editor’s note: Morgan Higgins ’16, of Staten Island, N.Y., who plans on a double major in religion and English, shares 13 photos from a Colgate Newman Community winter break trip to Italy. Higgins was one of 10 students who participated in the trip organized by university chaplain Mark Shiner.) A group photo (excluding three), from the […]
    January 15, 2014
  • People wait to get water from a tanker truck at a high school near Charleston, W.Va. (Photo courtesy of Associated Press)
    Editor’s Note: This post is by Colgate professor of physics and astronomy Jeff Bary, a West Virginia native who still has family there. He recently organized a campus series about central Appalachia and has extensive knowledge of the region. He is available for media inquiries at 315-228-7693 or jbary@colgate.edu. Sixteen percent. That is the percentage […]
    January 14, 2014