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MTV has been a major influence on pop culture for more than 25 years, and Carole Robinson ’83 has been there for nearly its entire lifetime, having joined the cable TV network just three years after its founding in 1981. In the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members of the […]

The Colgate campus Tuesday night hosted a key and sometimes controversial figure of the civil rights movement, Angela Davis, who urged students to reconsider how they view black history. A university professor and activist for civil rights, prison reform, and political accountability, Davis was brought to Colgate by Sisters of the Round Table (SORT). “In […]

It’s a space so nice, they built it thrice. And on Tuesday, February 17, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends all gathered at the James C. Colgate Student Union to cut the ribbon on a newly remodeled Donovan’s Pub.

Colgate University President Rebecca Chopp today announced that she will become president of Swarthmore College effective July 1, 2009. Chopp has been president of Colgate since July of 2002.

Combining wit, humor, and a willingness to say exactly what he’s thinking, Dick Gregory spoke Tuesday night in Love Auditorium as the Brothers keynote speaker for Black History Month. A well-known political activist, comedian, author, and personal nutrition advocate, Gregory talked  about “the world according to Dick,” challenging students to think while continually making them […]

As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the Colgate Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, “Where do you see beauty in the world?” and “How do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?” The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those […]

It was one of the most enduring social experiments of the Communist era: since the revolution of 1917, Russian families from various backgrounds have lived together in urban communal apartments. Colgate professors Alice Nakhimovsky and  Nancy Ries, with colleagues from around the world, have created an online museum to systematically document this unique lifestyle through […]

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by Colgate University Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two Colgate undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]