• On September 13, the Africana, Latin American, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Cultural Center hosted its annual ALANApalooza event. The celebration, welcoming students, faculty, and community members back to campus, featured local catering from Mr. Ed BBQ based in Sherburne, N.Y., student clubs and organizations encouraging new students to join, and music from one […]
    September 21, 2018
  • Author Viet Thanh Nguyen with members of the Colgate community following his 2018 Living Writers presentation
    When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen kicked off Colgate’s 2018 Living Writers series on Sept. 13, his talk in Memorial Chapel focused less on the specifics of his award-winning short story collection, The Refugees, and more on its implications.
    September 20, 2018
  • Students walk outside of Case Library in the fall
    New international agreements with universities in Geneva, Italy, and Japan will provide Colgate students with exciting new ways to expand and deepen their educational opportunities both on campus and abroad starting in 2019. A five-year joint AB-MA program with the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) now offers students the ability to […]
    September 19, 2018
  • Students gathered around a table outside the Colgate Community Garden
    The Max A. Shacknai Center for Volunteerism, Outreach, and Education (COVE) launched its programming for the academic year on Friday, September 7, with its annual 9/11 Afternoon of Service.
    September 19, 2018
  • According to Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy, “The big thaw that Antarctica had been dodging has arrived.” A geomorphologist and field geologist by training, Levy recently worked with what he calls an international dream team of scientists to explore the intensity of permafrost thaw and glacier thinning in the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The […]
    September 18, 2018
  • Two dancers pose during their dance of modern art
    Local residents of all ages and abilities are invited to attend a dynamic community dance workshop with the Taylor 2 Dance Company on Sept. 12, 4:30–6:00 p.m., in Colgate University’s Huntington Gymnasium. In addition, Colgate will also host a performance by Taylor 2 on Sept. 14 at 7:00 p.m. The group will perform two works […]
    September 11, 2018
  • As the university takes a look back on its history during this Bicentennial year, we pause to think of those lost on this day, 17 years ago. Seven Colgate alumni were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Sharon Balkcom ’80 – was a political science major […]
    September 11, 2018
  • Colgate University has named Paul B. Mischler, currently deputy chief advancement officer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine, as vice president for advancement at Colgate University. He will take up his new post on November 5.
    September 10, 2018