Barbara Brooks

When President Jeff Herbst joined Colgate, one of the first students who came to see him asked for advice about working for a non-governmental organization in Africa. Yet, for two reasons she had never been to the region: Colgate offered no such study group opportunity, and her financial aid package was not portable to non-Colgate […]

As an economist, Takao Kato studies unintended consequences of public policy decisions. As a professor at Colgate with many international students in his classes, he considers their prospects for gainful employment in the United States. That connection inspired a research project he conducted with Chad Sparber, assistant professor of economics.

When Simona Maicanescu took to the Brehmer Theater stage last weekend to perform Wallace Shawn’s The Fever, the connection between the work and the university was at first oblique. But her arresting performance of the 90-minute monologue on materialism, Marxism, and the inequitable distribution of wealth invited the kind of debate that takes place at […]

When Michael Watts talks about the human, societal, and resource costs of extracting oil in Africa, it’s impossible to ignore the connection between the fuel in one’s tank and violence in the Niger Delta. Watts, author of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, is professor and Class of […]

When Bharadwaj Reddy ’12 chose to attend Colgate from India, he thought he would spend four years without ever hearing or speaking Telugu, his native tongue, to anyone on campus. But during his sophomore year he found Srikar Gullapali ’13, a friend and colleague who not only speaks his language, but has similar goals in […]

As the impending United Nations deliberation on Palestinian statehood dominates media coverage around the world, one Colgate professor is uniquely positioned to analyze the issues that have led up to the vote, as well as the likely aftermath.

Colgate today set an ambitious target date to become carbon neutral by 2019, the university’s 200th anniversary. In so doing, President Jeffrey Herbst again confirmed the high priority of sustainability practices on campus.

Not every first-year student is “adopted” by a volunteer host but for international students that family-style rapport can be key to adjusting to college life in America. And host families often gain as much as they give.

Editors at the New York Times invited Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst to weigh in on an important issue regarding the internationalization of higher education: How can American scholars and universities maintain their academic freedom when interacting with China?

As part of its aggressive push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance sustainability, Colgate has signed a 15-year commitment with Patagonia Sur to purchase forestry-based carbon offsets. Under the agreement, a total of 225,000 native-species trees will be planted on 430 acres of land in Chile’s Aysén Region of Patagonia.