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First and foremost, I must tell you about my weekend with a prospective student. I was immensely excited to host (as I’m sure you all knew), and the prospective student, Mabel, and I were a perfect match. We got along so well. I gave her a mini-tour of the Colgate campus, I ate dinner with […]

Even politics-as-usual requires analysis and explanation. Colgate community members heard the historical perspective on the 2010 elections and current U.S. political climate from FOX News contributor and Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone during a lecture and debate Wednesday night.

Once again, Colgate is No. 1. The university recorded a 100 percent graduation success rate for its student-athletes, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, of which Colgate University is a member, has received a $600,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support collaborative programs in the areas of library collections, information technology, faculty and student development, and diversity.

As the world searches for alternative sources of energy, Bill Jorgenson ’65 is exploring an option that he acknowledges is not particularly glamorous: cow poop and garbage. Jorgenson is the managing partner of AGreen Energy LLC (AGE), an organization that has developed a process to not only generate sustainable energy from what would otherwise be […]

This week was filled with excitement! On Tuesday, the Chinese Interest Association brought the Golden Dragon Acrobats to perform at the Chapel. The event was unbelievable, the stunts were Herculean, and the show was spectacularly executed.

About a dozen “hikers” — including six Colgate students –gathered at the corner of Lex and Astor Place in Manhattan on a recent Saturday, smart phones in hand and exploration in mind. The group was with art professor Cary Peppermint, who had created what he called Indeterminate Hikes, a custom application for Android smart phones […]

The landscape of violence in Africa is as varied as the continent’s physical topography. Scott Straus, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, brought this message to Colgate during the second annual Schaehrer Lecture, sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program on Thursday.