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English professor Margaret Maurer has nurtured a love of literature in thousands of Colgate undergraduates and has cultivated that love through book club sessions she leads each summer for alumnae.

The annual Colgate Writers’ Conference returns to campus from June 17– 23, and that brings many opportunities to listen in and engage with professional writers as well as those who are learning the craft. 

Photographs by professors Tom Balonek and Roger Rowlett provide a Colgate vantage point of an event that won’t occur again for more than 100 years, the transit of Venus.

In his latest book, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War (Yale University Press), Colgate professor R.M. (Ray) Douglas examines “one of the most significant examples of the mass violation of human rights in recent history.” His related essay appears in the Review section of today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.

During April Visit Days in 2009, Vic Krivitski ’12 decided that Colgate needed a laugh. So, drawing on his skills as an avid climber, the 240-pound rugby lock took an unusual route from the fourth floor of West Hall to the Quad: he rappelled out the window, smiling and waving as he went.

For Colgate student Maggie Dunne ’13, one good deed yields another — and another — and another. As winner of the 2012 grand prize in Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women Competition, she received $20,000 for the work she has accomplished through her nonprofit Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project. At the ceremony, she announced […]

Early in her Colgate career, Alison Wohlers ’10 set her sights on earning a Fulbright grant. So she did what the fellowships office recommended.

Andy Rooney ’42 P’74, GP’05 was among the five “greatest journalists” who joined the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, to record what they saw and share it with the public. Author Tim Gay tells the story of what happened to Rooney, Walter Cronkite, A.J. Liebling, and others on that historic day in an […]