Alumni Profiles

The 2018 midterm elections resulted in a number of firsts for minority and female candidates, including Antonio Delgado ’99 and Mary Gay Scanlon ’80. Delgado, a Democrat, became the first African American member of Congress from upstate New York as well as its first Hispanic representative. An attorney from Rhinebeck, Delgado defeated Republican incumbent John […]

Robert H.N. Ho ’56, H’11 has been appointed Member to the Order of Canada (C.M.), one of that country’s highest civilian honors.

On Tuesday, November 6, Nicole Kinsman ’06 returned to Colgate to talk about her work with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Alaska

Colgate’s tightly knit community often fosters close friendships, but some students arrive already lifelong friends. This was the case when triplets Paige, Mellissa, and Adam Cross all joined the class of 2011. They went from graduating first, second, and third in their high school class, to leaving university with a Spanish and educational studies, geology, […]

While preparing to enter the Soil and Water Sciences PhD program at the University of Florida this fall, Michael Francis James ’17 worked with a committee of colleagues in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago to stage the nation’s first Pride Arts Festival. He continues to advocate for legal reform on behalf of LGBTQ citizens.

Former Colgate men’s basketball All-American and NBA star Adonal Foyle ’98 has been featured in the NCAA’s “After the Game” series. Foyle discusses how his Colgate education laid the groundwork for his life after basketball.

Jim DeCicco ’15 will be the second Colgate alumnus to appear this season on the popular ABC entrepreneur reality show Shark Tank, Sunday, February 11, at 10 p.m. DeCicco and his two younger brothers will be seeking investment from the sharks for their break-out energy drink, Sunniva Super Coffee. While at Colgate, DeCicco majored in […]

  A fledgling idea, born during an airport layover and cultivated with the help of Colgate’s Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Incubator, has landed a recent alumnus on the two-hour season premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank, Sunday, October 1, at 8 p.m. While a press embargo restricts what exactly happened when Ryan Diew ’17 plunged into […]

A Swinging ’Gates alumna has added another Emmy to her list of accomplishments. Audrey Morrissey ’89 received the award this month for her work as an executive producer of The Voice, a television show in its 12th season on NBC. The show’s producers were given the award for outstanding reality program that uses a competition format. […]

Michele Klein-Solomon ’83, a senior policy adviser at the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), addressed a hearing of the U.N. General Assembly on July 26, in preparation for an upcoming international conference to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration. While the group talked about ways the U.N. can help […]