Student Profiles

The fellowship provides graduating seniors with $40,000 to pursue a year of independent international exploration.

Jeff Arigo ’26 took his Colgate cancer research experience to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and came home with a first-place honor.

This summer, 19 Colgate University Upstate Institute Field School Fellows partnered with community organizations in and around Hamilton and the Adirondacks to pursue research projects that directly addressed a need or issue identified by the community partner organization.

Senior Bryan (Tai) Pham has been awarded his second consecutive Best Delegate in a Special Role award by fellow students at EuroSim 2025 for his role as chair of the EU Environmental Council. This year’s program focused on the European Green Deal and negotiating legislation aimed at reducing microplastic pollution.

This past summer, three Colgate geology students embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime research trip to gather samples from Augustine Volcano in southern Alaska.

As part of the 2024 cohort of Summer Field School Fellows, Mary Thomas Powell ’26 and Charlie Tourbaf ’25 are conducting hands-on environmental research.

Recipients of the John A. Golden ’66 Fellowship provide updates on their pre-law and medicine summer experiences.

Film and media studies major Leila Bekaert ’25, from Oakland, Calif., describes her summer split between working for a filmmaker in the south of France and a collections intern and archivist for an artist workshop in Rochester, N.Y.

Geology major Ryan D’Errico ’25, from Montclair, N.J., describes his summer research on the active Augustine stratovolcano in Alaska.

English and psychology major Jesse Harris ’24, from Chappaqua, N.Y., describes her summer internship working at two independent New York book publishers.