News and Updates

Nicolette Fox ’27, a French major with a minor in global public and environmental health, is working on a student-initiated summer research project to analyze writers’ portraits of anxiety in 19th-century French literature, grounded in narrative medicine

President Obama’s conversation is sponsored by the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at Colgate, which supports Colgate’s commitment to preparing students for lives of leadership, engaged citizenship, and thoughtful participation in a democratic society.

Executive orders are often seen as one of the U.S. president’s most powerful governing tools — a way to shape policy with the stroke of a pen. Lindsay Scheffler ’27 is spending her summer investigating why this picture is incomplete.

Tanner Harmon ’26, who majored in theater and economics at Colgate University, has joined the New York City Players — an experimental theater company led by Guggenheim Fellow, playwright, and artistic director Richard Maxwell.

Writers from around the world congregated on campus June 7–13 to celebrate their craft at the 30th Colgate Writers Conference.

Fourteen members of Colgate University’s Class of 2026 and recent alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships for the 2026–27 academic year, setting a new record as Colgate’s largest Fulbright cohort and building on the institution’s longstanding success with the program.

During its spring meeting, the Colgate University Board of Trustees formally approved resolutions regarding faculty promotions, all of which will take effect July 1, 2026.

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

The Balmuth Award was endowed by Mark Siegel ’73 to recognize excellent teaching.

Colgate University’s Hancock and Dart Colgrove Commons welcome two new co-directors for the 2026–27 academic year: Rodney Agnant and Lauren Philbrook.