Alumni Profiles

Looking back, I can see an interesting connection between my current life in the Windy City, three months in Sin City, and four years in Hamilton, N.Y.: a propensity for intellectual omnivorism.

Since graduating from Colgate University in 2015, Timmera Whaley has used her experiences — of which many often can only dream — to explore her passion for environmental justice.

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 […]