News and Updates

The stage is set for a classic men’s college lacrosse showdown, as No. 11 Colgate will face No. 9 Lehigh at 3 p.m. Sunday at Andy Kerr Stadium for the Patriot League Tournament title and an automatic berth to next month’s NCAA Tournament.

Dancefest, one of the most if not the most popular event on campus, will be webcast live for the first time this Saturday. Alumni, parents, and friends can watch the student performances starting at 6 p.m. by going to the Colgate Livestream channel: www.livestream.com/colgateuniversity.

Colgate welcomed Gabriel Bol Deng, a “Lost Boy of Sudan,” to campus on Thursday. Gabriel fled Sudan when his village was attacked; years later he came to Syracuse, N.Y., as a refugee, and now he speaks about his experiences. He came to Colgate to speak about his organization Hope for Ariang.

Red spotlights hit the stage of the Palace Theater, illuminating Dao Anh Khanh’s silhouette behind an opaque sheet, on April 6. As the performance artist began to move, each of Khanh’s calculated motions was synchronized with alternating colored lights, powerful noise, musical harmonies, video, and smoke. The overall effect was like moving art.

Jessica Blank ’11, six months on the job at NBC Nightly News, already has filmed and edited a news segment that now is on the NBC website. And, to top it off, the segment features a fellow alumnus.

It is time for Raider Nation to come out and support the men’s lacrosse team as it hosts the Patriot League Tournament this weekend at Andy Kerr Stadium. Top-seeded Colgate, hosting the tourney for the second time in program history, will face No. 4 Bucknell at 5 p.m. Friday, while No. 2 Lehigh will face […]

With its thrilling last-second win over Bucknell, the Colgate men’s lacrosse team became the Patriot League regular season champs and earned the right to host the league tournament this coming weekend.

The 30-minute Invisible Children video about Joseph Kony has become one of the most watched movies ever with over 90 million views. At a forum with students in Love Auditorium, Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst, who studies the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, lamented the lack of more complex dialog to result from the worldwide attention.

Today at approximately 13:13 p.m. EDT, #ColgateDay was a trending topic on Twitter. As a trending topic, it appeared on the Twitter screens of people across the nation and around the world. You can still see people talking about it here. Here is the screen shot: Our plan was simple: we asked our passionate Colgate […]

Today is Colgate Day, as well as the official kickoff to Entrepreneur Weekend. There will be festivities all weekend including a speech by Sir Richard Branson on Friday night. Free tickets are still available online and can be picked up at the will-call window at the Sanford Field House. Following Branson’s lecture, the Colgate Resolutions will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with […]