News and Updates

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. […]

Hamilton, NY — Sculpture in Scenic Landscape: David Hayes at the Picker Art Gallery and Colgate University is an exhibition of twenty-five painted steel sculptures which will be displayed on the campus April 11 – June 13, 1999. A guide and map will be available at the gallery, Dana Arts Center lobby, the Cultural Center, […]

Hamilton, NY — With personal gifts totaling $4 million, 67 current and former trustees of Colgate University have created a fund that will advance the college in honor of retiring President Neil R. Grabois. The fund was announced Tuesday evening (March 9) by Trustee Chairman Wm. Brian Little at a black tie dinner in New […]

Hamilton – Ginna Marston of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America will give a lecture titled ‘Does pop culture influence drug attitudes’ Drugs, teens, and the media’ on Wednesday, March 24, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 209, Lathrop Hall at Colgate University. Marston’s lecture will examine myths and misconceptions surrounding drug use and pop […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University junior Jessica Weiss will present a musical program of vocal works on Thursday, April 15, at noon in Memorial Chapel. A soprano, Weiss attended Syosset High School and studied voice with Teresa Arrigo. Since arriving at Colgate, where she is a junior, she has been a student of Neva Pilgrim. […]

Fellowship will allow Professor Heidi Ross and sophomore Janna Pistiner to travel and do research in China for a month. Hamilton – For many girls in rural areas of China, access to basic education presents a persistent struggle. In China’s poorest rural villages, school attendance among girls has actually declined during the past decade. Changes […]

Hamilton – Stephen Kuusisto, a writer who for almost forty years tried to hide the fact that he was legally blind, will give a reading from his autobiographical account Planet of the Blind at Colgate University on March 23, 1999. The Humanities Colloquium Lecture Series reading, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

Hamilton – John Koegel will participate in the college’s next Humanities Colloquium Series lecture on Tuesday, April 6. The topic of his talk, which will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall, will be ‘Preserving the Sounds of the ‘Old’ Southwest: Charles Lummis’s Collection of Mexican-American and Indian Music at […]