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Eric Foner, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, visited campus last week to talk about the U.S. president that America can’t seem to get enough of — Abraham Lincoln. Though his Nov. 14 lecture was on historical events, it could not have been more timely. With the comparisons being drawn between President Obama and Lincoln, and […]

Four Colgate alumni told students recently that a liberal arts education gave them the skills to work at Google, one of the most coveted employers on the planet. While some may assume all Google employees are computer science experts, alumni working on the business and sales side say they were able to land their jobs […]

Get ready, Raider Nation. Two Colgate teams — football and volleyball — are advancing to NCAA tournament play.

Once upon a time, long-distance travel — or at least an expensive studio uplink — was needed in order for Colgate experts to reach wide audiences. Today, that’s the case only some of the time. This tale of two professors highlights today’s possibilities. In the past few weeks, Prof. Anthony Aveni, an authority on the […]

A video of a dying butterfly that has lost a wing. A three-dimensional gray backslash hung on the wall. Refigured images from the film Deep Throat. These artworks, currently on display as part of the Clifford Gallery exhibition External Original, may seem like dissimilar pieces, but curator Sarah Mattes ’06 sees a common thread.

Last July, orthopedic surgeon Eric Gokcen ’84 performed a groundbreaking eight-hour surgery. His 17-year-old Ethiopian patient, Workitu Debebe, had a “parasitic twin” — a condition where a person has extra limbs, but no attached head or viable body.

It has been more than 20 years since Colgate last undertook a master plan of its built environment and land holdings, and in that time much in the landscape has changed.

Colgate dominated the second half of its game against Lehigh on Saturday, propelling the Raiders to a 35-24 victory that secured the Patriot League title and an automatic berth in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the Raiders. Raiders rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat the Mountain Hawks at Goodman Stadium.