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With a colorful PowerPoint presentation and a booming voice, Duke University sociology professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva shared his thoughts last Thursday about the concept of grammar as it organizes society’s perceptions of race in contemporary America. Bonilla-Silva’s speech in Love Auditorium was titled “The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America,” […]

Students in a Photo History Seminar course got a taste of stardom by producing their own exhibition of work by rock ‘n’ roll photographer Barrie Wentzell that is now on display at the Picker Art Gallery. The exhibition, No Sex, No Drugs, Just Rock ‘n’ Roll, is on view through Dec. 17.

With all the meetings with my advisor in order to pick classes, this week was pretty eye-opening. I think I’m going to follow an international relations course of study. I want to minor in something, and I’m debating between Latin American studies or film and media studies. Either one would most definitely be intriguing and […]

On this crisp November morning, beneath a bright, cloudless sky, a gathering at “Katie’s Garden” near Colgate Memorial Chapel marked the 10th anniversary of the tragic crash on Oak Drive that took the lives of four young people. Katherine Almeter, a Colgate first-year student, her high-school friends Emily Collins and Rachel Nargiso, and Kevin King […]

Green laser pointer in hand, John T. Spike gestured to a woman in the background of Caravaggio’s painting of the burial of Christ. Arms outstretched, she mourns the death of Jesus – yet Spike was concerned with her abnormally tall height. Because of her positioning in the back of the painting, she should theoretically be […]

With a 6K time of 19:17, Colgate’s Elise DeRoo ’12 has unquestionable talent on the cross country course. Equally impressive, however, is the molecular biology major’s 3.90 GPA. This formidable combination of brains and speed earned her the Patriot League’s 2010 Female Scholar-Athlete Award.

Physics department faculty members Charlie Holbrow, Jim Lloyd ’54, Joe Amato, Kiko Galvez, and Beth Parks have spent the last four years working together on a revision of the Colgate-inspired Modern Introductory Physics.

Colgate has always had a strong sense of place. On Colgate Day, August 13, the university reaffirmed its longstanding ties to the Central New York region by completing a $5.4 million endowment for the Upstate Institute thanks to the generosity of Jean-Pierre Conte ’85 and Board of Trustees Chair Chris Clifford ’67.