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G. Bruce Knecht ’80 recalls researching a story in 1994 for The Wall Street Journal about a soon-to-be launched company called Amazon.com Knecht went to the Amazon website, which was the first Internet site he had ever visited, on the only computer in the Journal newsroom that allowed access to the web.

One day Vonzelle Johnson ’07 woke with a vision. Community mentors in his hometown of Deland, Fla., had asked him and a friend to speak occasionally with area youth, but Johnson envisioned something bigger. “Forget just speaking,” said Johnson. “I thought, just go back and start a whole organization.”

Colgate’s green efforts were the focus of a “spotlight” article by the Environmental News Network website. The story highlights the university’s past efforts to reduce its environmental impact and examines its newest initiatives, spearheaded by the Environmental Council and new sustainability coordinator, John Pumilio.

It has been a cool summer at Colgate, but students working in biology professor Nancy Pruitt’s lab were prepared with handmade hats and scarves after Pruitt introduced them to knitting. Wendy Joo ’11 and Vickie Cadestin ’12 are on campus investigating whether proteins called dehydrins, produced by many plants to prevent dehydration, might also be […]

Lee Woodruff ’82 shares important information about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and her family’s experience with the issue in a cover story for Parade magazine. Woodruff’s article, “Can Brains Be Saved?,” appeared in the magazine on Sunday. Parade has a circulation of 33 million and appears in 475 newspapers nationwide.

Even though school is out for the summer, inquisitive high school students from upstate New York and New York City are keeping their minds sharp at a unique camp on Colgate’s campus. Colgate’s Science and Sports Camp was featured this week on the front page of the Observer-Dispatch (Utica).

Artists and film professionals and enthusiasts from around the globe discussed a wide range of documentaries at the recent Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, hosted for the second year in a row at Colgate University.

Colgate University has joined forces with five other upstate liberal arts colleges to explore potential cost-saving measures and to share best practices in areas such as student life and staff development. Besides Colgate, the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium consists of Hamilton College, Clinton; St. Lawrence University, Canton; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva; […]