Barbara Brooks

Colgate announced today that the public reception for the architects of Adjaye Associates has been postponed as the team is unable to travel to Hamilton on Monday, July 23, due to an illness. The event, to meet members of the firm that has been engaged to initiate the design process for a new Center for Art and […]

Update: See this post for rescheduling details: On Monday, July 23, Colgate University will host a reception for members of the community to meet the architects David Adjaye, Joseph Franchina, and Marc McQuade of Adjaye Associates. The team will be in Hamilton to initiate the design process for a new Center for Art and Culture envisioned for the […]

Colgate University has partnered with David Adjaye, one of the world’s leading architects, to begin the design process for a new art and cultural center envisioned for the Village of Hamilton. In this initial phase of the project, Adjaye will meet with members of the community and study the proposed space. He will articulate a […]

The annual Colgate Writers’ Conference returns to campus from June 17– 23, and that brings many opportunities to listen in and engage with professional writers as well as those who are learning the craft. 

In his latest book, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War (Yale University Press), Colgate professor R.M. (Ray) Douglas examines “one of the most significant examples of the mass violation of human rights in recent history.” His related essay appears in the Review section of today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.

For Colgate student Maggie Dunne ’13, one good deed yields another — and another — and another. As winner of the 2012 grand prize in Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women Competition, she received $20,000 for the work she has accomplished through her nonprofit Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project. At the ceremony, she announced […]

Early in her Colgate career, Alison Wohlers ’10 set her sights on earning a Fulbright grant. So she did what the fellowships office recommended.

It’s never easy to identify the one senior “whose character, scholarship, sportsmanship, and service to others best exemplify the spirit that is Colgate,” and yet every year there can be only one recipient of the 1819 Award. The 2012 winner was Victor Krivitski ’12, who passed away last August after an eight-month fight with cancer.

Depending on who you ask, iPhone photography, viral videos, and massive amounts of citizen-generated content have either harkened a new Golden Age of visual culture, or distorted reality beyond recognition.

When art and art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe stumbled upon 20 large limestone figural reliefs in the collection of Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery, it was a momentous research opportunity, not just for Marlowe but also for 15 students in her Seminar in Art Prior to 1300 — New Egyptian Reliefs in the Picker: Challenges and […]