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What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.

After fall break, students arrived on campus rested and ready to tackle their workload. Break came at a great time for those who had taken midterm exams and needed the respite the few days off provided.

When President Jeff Herbst joined Colgate, one of the first students who came to see him asked for advice about working for a non-governmental organization in Africa. Yet, for two reasons she had never been to the region: Colgate offered no such study group opportunity, and her financial aid package was not portable to non-Colgate […]

While stories of insider trading continuously populate the news, Jonathan Streeter ’90 visited campus last week to give his perspective as deputy chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorneys Office in the southern district of New York. As such, Streeter is the lead prosecutor in USA v Raj Rajaratnam et al., which has […]

My biology class headed to the Ho Tung Visualization Lab one day this week to watch a film in place of a regular class lecture. The theater-type room was a great environment to see the National Geographic documentary.

Colgate’s sustainability groups gathered Tuesday in the Ho Science Center atrium for the first Greentivities Fair, an effort to raise awareness about their work, recruit new members, and offer tips to help students act more environmentally friendly. An added benefit was that those like-minded students with green goals had the chance to get together and […]

More than 300 students, faculty, and staff members gathered Tuesday at Memorial Chapel for a campuswide forum on the topics of inclusiveness, bias, and multiculturalism.

As an economist, Takao Kato studies unintended consequences of public policy decisions. As a professor at Colgate with many international students in his classes, he considers their prospects for gainful employment in the United States. That connection inspired a research project he conducted with Chad Sparber, assistant professor of economics.