News and Updates

Geology professor Connie Soja and 13 students in her Core Distinction course recently had a “wonderful conversation” with the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, even though some 3,444 miles separated the participants. Soja’s students could see and interact with Randal Keynes, who spoke to them via a software program called Skype and whose image was […]

Alumnus Mark Murphy, the man who led the Colgate football team as captain and went on to lead the athletics department as director, has been named president of one of the most storied franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. The team’s board of directors on Monday unanimously approved the appointment of Murphy, 52, […]

Colgate offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That’s why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to […]

While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko ’09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn’t have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she […]

New York’s first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited Colgate Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.

A “beautiful remembrance” of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on Colgate’s campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, […]

John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at Colgate. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.

It has been almost 25 years since men’s hockey coach Don Vaughan was slammed against the boards.

Once a week, a first-floor room in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology is transformed into a TV newsroom bristling with students working with the latest video technology. The seven students are writing, taping, and editing Gate Update, a show highlighting campus events. The group’s first show was posted on www.colgate.edu this […]

Colgate Hunger Outreach Program’s Local Food Fair drew involved students, interested community members, and the Swinging Gates to The Loj last week for a fresh and delicious feast made entirely of food produced in the Hamilton area. Liz Whitehurst ’08, community coordinator at The Loj, a college theme house dedicated to the environment, said students […]