Geography News and Updates

Colgate magazine recently highlighted alumni who are industrious, innovative, and inspirational and under 40. We're making a special point to show off the Geography alum who have taken their majors to a diverse array of fields and positions.

After learning extensively about public and affordable housing, students from Professor Hamlin’s Geography 353/Sociology 353 course received a personalized tour of three housing authority properties.

Alums Rachel Ulm '21 and Tingkuan Hsieh '24 returned to speak with current students about their careers after graduation.

Green hydrogen in southern Chile elicits glowing rhetoric from energy advocates. But unless benefits are shared with locals, the project could replicate harmful inequalities.

The launch of Professor Emily Mitchell Eaton’s book New Destinations of Empire, Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States was accompanied by a panel discussion.

Thanks to the Kevin Williams '10 Endowed Memorial Fellowship, Barbara Gonzalez Fuentes '25 embarked on a life-changing study abroad experience last spring in Peru.

The weather was cooperative, the campus was beautiful this October 18-20, Colgate's Family Weekend for 2024.

Declan Huddleston ’26 worked with Professor William Meyer this past summer to determine “worthless lands” using GIS.

Ayden Simpson ’25 worked this summer with the Chenango Greenway Conservancy through the Upstate Institute’s Summer Field School to clarify a vision of a rail trail through the Chenango River Valley.

Geography had a full crop of students doing research this summer.