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Ole Obermann ’93, Global Head of Music at Apple, to Deliver Colgate University’s 2026 Commencement Address
Ole Obermann ’93, who has spent more than three decades in senior leadership roles across the global music industry, will give the address at Colgate University’s 2026 Commencement on Sunday, May 17.
Colgate University Announces Ukraine Wartime Posters Exhibition
Colgate University has announced the exhibition “Ukraine Wartime Posters, 2022–25: The Way of Resistance” and a related lecture-discussion with guest curator Olena Speranska, vice president of the Contemporary Art Researches Union, director of the Art Residencies program with BIRUCHIY Contemporary Art Project, and founder of the U.S.-based Ukrainian Contemporary Art Platform.
Fermentation Course Provides Lessons on Connection and Community
Students working together to make kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, tempeh, and sourdough learned how fermentation creates transformation through communities of bacteria and what humans can learn from food and from one another.
Colgate has such great academics and such a beautiful campus, I can't imagine going anywhere else.
English Major
Farrell Aldrich '25
When Farrell Aldrich graduated this spring, she became the fifth Colgate alumnus in her family. During her time in Hamilton, Aldrich found her own family — quickly joining organizations, starting a new club, finding mentors, and making her mark on campus.
As someone who loves history, it was surreal to be there...
Class of 2016
Jane Trask '16
In 2015, Jane Trask traveled abroad with Colgate's London History Study Group, unknowingly beginning a journey that would lead her to a dream job tasked with planning the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Invictus Games, and other ceremonial events.
Science is a slow walk. It's a delightful walk, if you get to participate in a block or two of it, which I've been fortunate to do.
Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American and Indigenous Studies
Anthony Aveni
The longtime professor discusses his newest book, Aliens Like Us?: An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life, and talks about what's next on the horizon for him and his otherworldly research.
