• Last Saturday, a group of volunteers and I worked at a family’s home in Fleischmanns, N.Y., Hurricane Irene had caused massive damage to the houses and buildings in this town.
    November 18, 2011
  • Barnet Kellman ’69 is in the forefront of an academic initiative at the University of Southern California that will offer courses examining all aspects of comedy. Kellman and two fellow USC professors were featured in a New York Times article in which they said the new program is the most extensive effort by an American […]
    November 17, 2011
  • David K. Lewis, a chemistry professor at Colgate for more than 25 years who now teaches at Connecticut College, has been awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.
    November 16, 2011
  • Course registration for next semester is now over! That very stressful experience has now come to pass and many students are excited to relax this weekend. My weekend, however, will be pretty busy.
    November 11, 2011
  • On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that […]
    November 9, 2011