• Thanksgiving break was a really great chance for Colgate students to relax and regroup. For break, I was able to bring my roommate, Chelsea, home to Syracuse to spend a night before her flight the next morning. Chelsea got to meet one of my closest friends from back home and was able to spend some […]
    December 2, 2011
  • In the last month, Colgate University faculty answered the call to journalists who required qualified experts. The NPR podcast Planet Money asked the question, “Why Does A Taxi Medallion Cost $1 Million?”. For the answer, they turned to Graham Hodges.
    November 30, 2011
  • On a bright morning at the end of July, Colgate graduate Eric Noyes ’86 found himself in a rental car, taking two elders from the Crow and Cheyenne American Indian tribes for a drive up into the hills of Onondaga County south of Syracuse, N.Y.
    November 29, 2011
  • Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]
    November 28, 2011
  • Kevin M. Carlsmith, a highly regarded Colgate professor and researcher who battled cancer for the past three years, died Nov. 19 in his boyhood home in California surrounded by members of his family. He was 44.
    November 22, 2011
  • As alumni, faculty, and students celebrated the 50th anniversary of Colgate’s London Study Group, the Institute of International Education (IIE) released its 2009-2010 Open Doors data. Again, Colgate appeared near the top of two lists for the number of students studying abroad.
    November 21, 2011