• Visiting Colgate recently, Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: the United States and Iraq Sanctions, laid bare an atrocity hiding in bureaucratic plain sight: after the 1991 bombing nearly flattened Iraq, the United States knowingly allowed economic sanctions to cause starvation, disease, poverty, and heightened rates of childhood mortality to the country’s people.
    October 22, 2012
  • When Colgate’s new Russian and Eurasian Studies (REST) program promised not only a Russian menu, but also cloth headgear and the titillating-sounding topic of the Pussy Riot phenomenon, they had a winning formula. (Pussy Riot is the feminist, subversive band whose members have been in prison since March for performing an anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” in […]
    October 19, 2012
  • For the Shaw Wellness Institute, homecoming weekend held a special meaning. Faculty, staff, students, and university trustees dedicated the institute’s new home in the Cutten Complex on Friday, October 12, kicking off Colgate’s homecoming festivities with a tribute to healthy lifestyles. The space is a crucial step in the development of the institute, which is […]
    October 19, 2012
  • Colgate University has selected Ellucian Technology Management Services to help optimize its use of data and analytical tools for more efficient and informed decision making across the university. The move is an important part of Colgate’s ongoing initiative, led by President Jeffrey Herbst, to maximize the use of technology for operational efficiency and long-term financial […]
    October 18, 2012
  • Editors note: This is the text of a note from Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst to the Colgate community in regards to the Alana Affairs Report.  To the Colgate community, During the 2011-12 academic year, the ALANA Affairs Committee issued a report to the president (attached) that was circulated to all employees and students. The report, […]
    October 17, 2012
  • This September, Colgate unveiled its most innovative learning-technology tool to date. The new Anita Grover MD ’74 and Tom Hargrove P’14 Digital Learning and Media Center (DLMC), named for the Colgate parents who made it possible, is now open on the fifth floor of the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology. The center […]
    October 17, 2012
  • Securing observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope is a highly desirable and extremely competitive process for astronomers. There are hundreds more projects submitted than can be accommodated, and the selection criteria is stringent. Colgate astronomy professor Jeff Bary and collaborator Tracy Beck of the Space Telescope Science Institute, though, were recently awarded 12 orbits, […]
    October 16, 2012