Tim O'Keeffe

When his Colgate classmates ask Zach Sawin ’16 what he did during winter break, he can answer: I helped save a man’s life. Sawin was back home with five friends from Lake Mary High School, just outside Orlando, Fla.,  on Dec. 15 when they noticed a car bobbing in a lake about 50 yards offshore, […]

Student-athlete Peter Baum ’13 was the No. 1 overall pick in the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft this past weekend, not a surprise considering he received the Tewaaraton Award last year as the top college lacrosse player in the nation. Baum won both the Tewaaraton and the Lt. Raymond J. Enners awards as the nation’s […]

Amy Dudley ’06, communications director for U.S. Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.), says that her chance as a Colgate sophomore to “shadow” Howard Fineman ’70 (then Newsweek correspondent, now senior editor for the Huffington Post) during the run-up to the 2004 presidential primaries played a pivotal role in her career exploration. Dudley was interested in […]

Whew. It’s not the end of the world after all. If you delayed gift shopping because you thought it would be a waste of time, if you called in sick all week to knock off some items on your bucket list, if you are wishing the world would end today because  you celebrated too hard […]

Smile, Hamilton, N.Y.! Or more specifically, keep smiling, because you’ve just been named one of America’s most friendly towns by Forbes magazine. The beautiful home of Colgate University was ranked No. 11 in a story on Forbes.com. Here is what the article had to say about Hamilton:

A nonprofit organization created by Maggie Dunne ‘13 has been named one of the top five “literacy champions” of 2012 by Scholastic, a welcome recognition of her efforts to help residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Dunne’s nonprofit — recently renamed Lakota Children’s Enrichment (LCE) — was cited for its efforts in […]

It is not business as usual for two Colgate alumni — Stephen B. Burke ’80 and Daniel B. Hurwitz ‘86 — who were recognized for their roles as top executives. Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, was listed third on Fortune’s annual Businessperson of the Year ranking. He shared that spot with Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast. […]

Memorial Chapel was standing-room-only Thursday evening for a reading and talk by Salman Rushdie, author of numerous novels including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize as well as the Best of the Booker Prize.

If you are a foodie, then you know Zagat. If you are a Colgate alumnus, you know Slices (a k a New York Pizzeria), a longtime favorite eatery in the village of Hamilton. The two worlds combined this week when Zagat highighted Slices as one of the “10 pizza joints in the U.S. that are […]

Get ready, Raider Nation. Two Colgate teams — football and volleyball — are advancing to NCAA tournament play.