GERM

Colgate students will now have the opportunity to apply for special 10-week paid summer internships with major companies located in Germany, thanks to the university’s new membership in the German American Exchange (GAE).

Editor’s note: Last spring, Miranda Gilgore ’18 took part in Colgate’s public arts and humanities immersion trip to New York City. As she prepares for her summer months as a camp counselor in the Adirondacks, Gilgore reflected on the experience and how it has changed her outlook on her majors, her hobbies, and her long-term […]

Two Colgate students will teach English in Germany for a year thanks to being awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships. William Andrews ’16, a German and international relations major from of Richmond, Va., and Carolyn “Cara” Skelly ’16, a German and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies double major from Wellesley, Mass., will be helping students to […]

On March 3, Jackson Janes ’69 returned to campus to discuss German-American relations. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of German, was titled “A Study of Friendships, Frictions, and Transforming Interests in the 21st Century.” Janes is the president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University as well as a […]

A symbolic Berlin Wall, set up by the Colgate German Club in the foyer of Lawrence Hall, commemorates the 25th anniversary of the November 9, 1989, conclusion of the separation between East and West Berlin. Spray-painted with the German words, Kein Ausgang, meaning no exit, and the opposition statement, Wir Sind Ein Volk, meaning, we are one […]

In one weekend, Alexa Windsor ’13 , a double major in German and history, had access to more academic gravitas in her field than many students have in four years of college. She attended the recent Black and Blue Danube symposium, which featured film screenings, a student poster session, and three panels showcasing a dozen […]

On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that […]