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Colgate's faculty members are often called upon to comment on complex issues in the news, from cybersecurity to global politics or finance. Whatever the topic, a member of the communications staff can help you quickly find the resource you need.
Archaeoastronomer Tony Aveni, one of Colgate's most-interviewed professors, talks about the Mayan calendar with Fuji TV

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In this video, professor Dan Epstein discusses politics in Russia. Epstein was recently featured in an NECN news program to discuss the possible motives and history of the Boston bombing suspects.

Professor Epstein is available to provide insights or answer questions on the connection between Chechen terrorists (whose major grievance has historically been with the Russian state) and the United States as a target.

Reporters on deadline should contact Barbara Brooks or Matt Hames.

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Colgate Faculty Featured in the News

  • Professor Mary Simonson was interviewed for a CNN story on the Great Gatsby. "They're not going to care too much about whether this is a well-done adaptation," she said about Hollywood. "They're going to care about whether it's a Hollywood blockbuster."



  • Revolutions per Minute, the Sound Art Exhibition at Colgate University thanks to Wenhua Shi, Assistant Professor of Digital Arts in the Department of Art and Art History, was featured in Complex Magazine, a magazine about art.


  • Professor Enrique Galvez of Colgate University is featured in a Scientific American video called "Quantum Entanglement Takes a Road Trip". Galvez built a machine to observe quantum entanglement, the strange phenomenon that Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." 



  • The New York Times featured a story on “Revolutions per Minute,” an innovative Chinese sound-art exhibition being organized at Colgate by Wenhua Shi, assistant professor of art and art history. The post also appeared in the March 4th edition of the paper as an Arts, Briefly, item.

  • In an article titled "By 2050, US may have Prez of Asian origin", author Paramita Ghosh, of the Hindustan Times reports that migration from Asia will change US demographics. The article reports that "Indian Americans lead all other groups by a significant margin in their levels of income and education." Colgate professor Navine Murshid, who is workng on a book about migration, cautions that "the problem with such generalisation is that it overlooks the large Asian refugee populations from Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, for example, who lead difficult lives in the US." 


  • In "Fake sculptures plaguing art world," reporter Daniel Grant turned to Dewitt Godfrey, a Colgate professor and renowned public artist. Godfrey said, “With the advances in 3D scanning and other digital technologies, I suspect it is easier than ever to duplicate work and create copies.”  The Reuters wire story was picked up internationally.

  • The New York Times interviewed Professor Graham Hodges, a former taxi driver and taxi historian, for a story about falling tips to cabbies: “There’s always a tension of whether to perceive the cabdriver as an independent-business man who has costs like you and me, or as a servant,” Hodges said. “I think people would like to see the cabdriver as a servant — someone perhaps more entitled to a tip — but they’re unable to.”

  • In writing about the growth of gift giving at HanukkahWall Street Journal reporter Charles Passy turned to Lesleigh Cushing of Jewish studies for her take: “As Christmas has grown commercially, Hanukkah has kept stride so Jewish kids don’t feel left out,” Cushing said. The story was picked up by several online news sources.

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