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A paper coauthored by Colgate professor Tony Aveni and published today in Science might put a damper on any plans by  Hollywood to capitalize on theories about the world coming to an end in 2012. The paper details the discovery and excavation of a home in Xultún, Guatemala, and a “wall painting accompanied by a […]

Depending on who you ask, iPhone photography, viral videos, and massive amounts of citizen-generated content have either harkened a new Golden Age of visual culture, or distorted reality beyond recognition.

When art and art history professor Elizabeth Marlowe stumbled upon 20 large limestone figural reliefs in the collection of Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery, it was a momentous research opportunity, not just for Marlowe but also for 15 students in her Seminar in Art Prior to 1300 — New Egyptian Reliefs in the Picker: Challenges and […]

Janel Benson, assistant professor of sociology, has joined the debate about family values on The New York Times. Benson, who specializes in sociology of the family, is one of the contributors to the Times‘ Room for Debate section of its website.

If, as Sir Richard Branson said on Friday, prizes are one of the best ways to encourage innovation, then President Jeffrey Herbst is on the right track with his new Colgate Innovation Awards. During his remarks before Richard Branson’s Global Leaders appearance at Colgate, Herbst talked about entrepreneurial ideas and technology — and how important it is to try new things in […]

(Editor’s note: This article is by Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies) March was Women’s History Month, but here at the Center for Women’s Studies, women’s history is being written every day. On Facebook we are dedicated to ongoing dialogue related to all aspects of women’s lives every month of the year.

To paraphrase Michael Stipe and R.E.M., 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it. And pioneering archaeoastronomer Tony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies, has every reason to feel fine.

Colgate recently hosted “The Inner City Citizen — the Limits of Liberal Democracy,” a panel discussion and lecture featuring Glenn Loury, the distinguished economist and author who is now the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown.

When Weston Testo ’12 arrived at Colgate in 2008, little did he know that he would form an exciting and professional bond with James “Eddie” Watkins, an assistant professor of biology hired that same year. Thanks in part to their research and publication partnership, Testo received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation […]

When he visited Colgate, Major Fernando Luján, an Army Special Forces officer who has spent time embedded with Afghan National Security Forces, likened his perspective to one of the blind men in the fable who touches — and hence only knows — one part of the elephant. If so, then one could argue that Luján’s […]