News and Updates

Hamilton, NY — , APRIL 27, 1999 ‘ Charles Karelis, since 1985 director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), will succeed Neil R. Grabois as president of Colgate University on July 1. Karelis was introduced to the Colgate community today by the chairman of the college’s board of trustees, Wm. Brian […]

Hamilton, NY — Senior Michael Neidig is the first Colgate student to be awarded the prestigious Churchill Foundation Scholarship for graduate study at Churchill College of Cambridge University. Neidig, who grew up on a family farm in McAlisterville, PA, is a chemistry major at Colgate and plans to further his bioinorganic research during his year […]

Hamilton – Colgate University Theater will present its Spring Festival of Plays April 14-18 in Brehmer Theater of the Dana Arts Center on campus. This year’s festival will feature short versions of Shakespeare plays. Each of the one-act productions is written, directed, designed, acted, and built by students at Colgate. According to Jacques Levy, director […]

Trial was the subject for the recent movie A Civil Action Hamilton – John Drobinski, a major expert witness in the Woburn, Massachusetts trial that was the subject of the recent movie A Civil Action, will speak at Colgate University on Tuesday, April 20. Drobinski’s talk, titled ‘Lessons Learned from Woburn,’ will occur at 11:30 […]

Hamilton – Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be in residence on the Colgate University Campus the week of April 19 as part of the yearlong program of the Center for Ethics and World Societies. During his stay, Walcott will participate in class meetings with students and will give a […]

Hamilton – Colgate University has announced student charges for 1999-2000, with the lowest percentage increase in fees in the past 26 years. With a 3.2 percent increase, the combined student charges for 1999-2000 total $31,080. In a letter to parents mailed on March 12, Financial Vice President and Treasurer Elizabeth Eismeier wrote that the college […]

Hamilton – Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute On Drug Abuse, will give a lecture titled ‘Drugs and the Brain: Can Science Replace Ideology” at Colgate University on Sunday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall, Room 209. Leshner offered the following comments in anticipation of his talk: ‘Over the past several decades, […]

Hamilton – Petar Boskovic, the former Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Cyprus, and a longtime expert on Serbian foreign affairs, will speak at Colgate University on ‘Kosovo and the Albanian Question’ on Wednesday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall. This event is sponsored by Colgate’s Peace Studies Program. As […]

Hamilton – Writer Iris Chang will give a reading from her New York Times Bestseller The Rape of Nanking at Colgate University on Thursday, April 8 at 4:00 p.m. in Love Auditorium. The Rape of Nanking is the definitive history of events that took place in December 1937 when the Japanese army swept into the […]

Hamilton – The Colgate University’s Children’s Theater group, directed by Katherine Liepe Levinson, will present the colorful, energetic, and funny original play See You At The Circus on April 9 at 7:00 p.m. Admission to the play, which takes place in Brehmer Theater of the Dana Arts Center, is free and open to the public. […]