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Welcome, and congratulations to all of you for your accomplishments. You are about to join a lively community of over 30,000 people who have the special distinction of being alumni of Colgate University. I have learned that among the grandparents here today, there are 13 (of course!) who are themselves Colgate alumni. So let us […]

(Editor’s note: Robert D. Manfred Jr. P’16, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, delivered the following address to the Colgate University Class of 2016 on May 15, 2016.) Good morning everyone. It is an honor and a pleasure for me to be here today.  I grew up just down the road in Rome, N.Y.. And, […]

Name: Kalani Byrd Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif. Major/Minor: Peace & Conflict Studies/Psychology Campus activities: Research assistant for Professor Jennifer Tomlinson in the psychology department Student caller for the Office of the Annual Fund Student employee in the merchandising department of the Colgate Bookstore Member of Kappa Kappa Gamma with service on its philanthropy committee Vice president of […]

Editor’s note: Hannah Bercovici ’17, a geology major from Woodbridge, Conn., is the only undergraduate member of the science party aboard the research vessel Atlantis, currently cruising over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, somewhere around the 14th parallel north. Bercovici and her colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are hunting for seafloor basalt — “popping rocks” […]

Editor’s note: These comments were delivered by Ellen Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography and environmental studies, to graduates at Australia’s Curtin University on February 18, 2016. Good evening chancellor, vice-chancellor, members of the university council, distinguished guests, and good colleagues. Good evening, and joyous congratulations to the graduates of the School of […]

Together they will travel more than 500 miles, through forests, mountains, and desolate tundra. The entire forest, growing in a shallow layer of soil, sits on ice and frozen dirt that is tens of thousands of years old.

Julia Queller ’16, from Westfield, N.J., interned last summer for OnFaith, an online publication that shares stories by members of different faith communities. For the alumni magazine she shared questions a religion major commonly receives, and their answers.

(Editor’s note: Fourteen students accompanied Associate Professor of Biology Krista Ingram on an extended study trip to the Florida Keys during winter break to study marine mammal cognition, behavior, and conservation at the Dolphin Research Center. They chronicled their full experience on the off-campus learning blog — here’s a sample, written by Elly Hilton ’17, […]

(Editor’s Note: This post is by Andrew Daddio, university photographer.) Each year at this time I am asked to compile a selection of my favorite images from the beginning of the calendar year. I’m always hesitant to call these my “Best Images” of the year, because my choices are culled from anywhere between 40,000 and […]

Editor’s note: we asked Brian Ness, Colgate’s video journalist, to pick his five favorite videos of 2015. Relevant Karen Harpp wins the 2015 Balmuth teaching award The complete Colgate in 13 seconds playlist The Colgate Fund The best photographs of 2013