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Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst joined members of the Colgate community to ring the bell 13 times to open the New York Stock Exchange on Colgate Day, Friday the 13th. The purpose was to raise awareness for the announcement of the results of the $480 million Passion for the Climb campaign. So why Friday the 13th? As you […]

Update: See this post for rescheduling details: On Monday, July 23, Colgate University will host a reception for members of the community to meet the architects David Adjaye, Joseph Franchina, and Marc McQuade of Adjaye Associates. The team will be in Hamilton to initiate the design process for a new Center for Art and Culture envisioned for the […]

To mark the successful end of Passion for the Climb: The Campaign for Colgate, President Jeffrey Herbst and 26 members of the Colgate University community rang this morning’s opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

For author and senior editor at Random House Jennifer E. Smith ’03, returning to the Colgate Writers’ Conference year after year is as comfortable as reading a good book. A conference veteran, each summer Smith brings along a more impressive resume and writing repertoire. Smith joined the conference for the first time as best-selling novelist […]

Rising sophomore Jessica Li ’15, a member of Colgate’s Benton Scholars program, recently coauthored a full-length commentary that was published in the science journal Nature.

For the second time in his young life, Paul Ridley ’05 is about to embark on an adventure that man has never before achieved. Ridley — who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 — will be attempting the first nonstop, unsupported row across the Arctic Ocean with three other men.

Last week, scientists discovered what might be a fundamental particle called the Higgs boson (a k a The God Particle). Colgate alumnus Ben Cerio ’07, currently a research assistant at Duke University, was part of this exciting  discovery. “The discovery has very deep implications about the origin of mass in the universe” reports Cerio, who is confident that it is the […]

As the Olympic flame continues its journey to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, it will be passed to Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka ’08, who was named to the torch relay team in England because of her efforts to inspire young people to become better global citizens.