Stephanie DeVries

Three Colgate students are continuing work started this past summer on interdisciplinary research projects through the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Scholars Program.

Historian Kathleen Belew of Northwestern University discussed the origins of the current political division in the United States during this year’s Peter C. Schaehrer ’65 Memorial Lecture in Peace and Conflict Studies, “Home at the End of the World: Fear, Faith and Crisis of Community in Suburbs,” on Sept. 24.

A panel of Colgate faculty members shared their perspectives on “American Constitutionalism at 250: The Roberts Court and the Evolution of a Unitary Executive” as part of the University’s celebration of Constitution Day Sept. 17.

Colgate will celebrate this year’s Constitution Day with a panel discussion featuring five Colgate faculty members addressing “American Constitutionalism at 250: The Roberts Court and the Evolution of a Unitary Executive.”

The workshop was funded through a 2026 Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute Interdisciplinary Training Workshop Grant.

Anna Sims Bartel has been appointed to serve as the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair for regional studies for the 2026–27 academic year.

A new Longyear Museum of Anthropology exhibit displays the work of more than 30 crafters from across campus and the community who have created “tempestries” to highlight the yearly temperature changes for significant dates in Colgate’s history.

The Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education is celebrating a quarter century of student-led service at Colgate as it continues to promote positive social change and contribute to the well-being of those on campus and surrounding communities through volunteerism.

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute has announced this year’s awards supporting interdisciplinary research, training, and student-centered scholarship at Colgate.

Students working together to make kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, tempeh, and sourdough learned how fermentation creates transformation through communities of bacteria and what humans can learn from food and from one another.