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Colgate students working with professor Jason Meyers for the past four years have been searching for the answer to why stem cells in certain parts of zebrafish, the same fish you might find at a local aquarium shop, regenerate when their sensory cells are damaged. Because similar human cells do not regenerate, and their loss […]

Update: The film Our Nixon, directed by Colgate professor Penny Lane, premieres August 30  in select U.S. cities. Since its premiere on CNN earlier this month it has drawn a lot of attention, including a Daily Beast commentary by Ben Stein, the economist known to many as a movie and television personality. Lane responded to Stein here. […]

Every year, pre-Orientation programs allow first-years to arrive on campus early, learn about some of Colgate’s clubs and activities, and make friends within the program before their official first-year orientation begins. Here, members of the Class of 2017 talk about their experiences with their respective programs. WRCU “I moved into Colgate early to attend WRCU […]

My name is Hannah O’Malley, and this week I joined the Class of 2017. Because I attended a pre-Orientation program, I was fortunate to be able to move in a couple of days earlier. But bright-and-early at 8 a.m. on Saturday, as the WRCU DJs started to enliven the campus, I knew the highly anticipated […]

New international students arrived on campus last week, just a few days before throngs of cars packed Whitnall Field for first-year move-in day Saturday. The pre-Orientation program for international students is designed to help ease the transition for those traveling to Hamilton, N.Y., from outside the United States. Assistant Dean and Office of International Student […]

Colgate students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Charity Whyte ’16, with contributions from fellow interns Sam Linnerooth ’14 and Elise Van Gelder ’15 — they spent their summer at the United Nations. Elise and I spent the summer in […]

Colgate students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by history major Caitlin Sackrison ’15, of Minnetonka, Minn. This summer I conducted research on over 75 19th-century French political cartoons found in the Colgate archives. I was funded through a grant from the Division […]

Colgate was named the 37th greenest college (PDF) in the nation in a ranking of the most sustainable colleges by the Sierra Club. Colgate ranks higher on the “Coolest Schools” list than schools such as Middlebury (41st), UPenn (42nd), Hobart and William Smith Colleges (73rd), College of the Atlantic (82nd), Wesleyan University (83rd), Bowdoin (106th), and […]