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It pays to coach Little League. For Kevin Briody ’85, it led to a Daytime Emmy award. While coaching his son Cavan’s Triple-A baseball team in Ridgefield, Conn., Briody, a folk singer-songwriter, had made the acquaintance of another player’s dad, who also happened to be a songwriter. In fact, he was Paul Glass, music supervisor […]

Geography professor Ellen Kraly’s hiking boots have logged many miles. Four years ago they went up Mount Baker in Washington state as Kraly raised money for breast cancer research, and next week they’ll be taking on Mount Baker’s larger Cascade neighbor, Mount Rainier, for the same cause.

What’s a Colgate University degree worth? A study released Wednesday by PayScale, which was reported in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, may shed some light on that question.

The Colgate University Press has dusted itself off and published its first book in 14 years. Released this summer, Crafting Fiction, Poetry, & Memoir: Talks from the Colgate Writers’ Conference is a collection of essays by a diverse group of authors who are passionate about teaching the art of writing.

Colgate football players hope their strength and endurance pay off for charities that help fight rare diseases. At the “Lift for Life” fundraiser Friday, about 35 players will compete against each other in lifting and skills competitions.

Sports Illustrated senior writer Austin Murphy ’83 covered the National Football League for six years and is in his 15th year of covering college football. In the most recent episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series highlighting members of the campus community, Murphy had this to say: — The NFL is run by pinched, unsmiling […]

While his students are on summer vacation, Patrick O’Neil, a social studies teacher from Charlotte, N.C., is spending time in a “summer school” at Colgate University. Graham Hodges has written numerous books and articles about slavery. O’Neil and two dozen other K-12 teachers from as far away as California are taking on the role of […]

Participants in a Greek Life Summit met on campus last weekend to discuss the past, evaluate the present, and envision the future for Colgate chapters. Five representatives from each of the 10 fraternities and sororities on campus collaborated with staff members, local advisers, and alumni representatives. In all, more than 70 people contributed to the dialogue that was […]