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Catherine Cardelús’s passionate interest in tropical biodiversity — one that takes her to rain forest canopies 150 feet above ground — sprouted from a college course in plant biology. Cardelús, assistant professor of biology, was so intrigued by a professor’s lecture about rain forest diversity that she felt compelled to see it firsthand. So fresh […]

Two highly regarded filmmakers will visit campus this week, presenting four films over four nights and meeting with students in several classes. James Benning and Sharon Lockhart, who both just returned from the Berlin Film Festival, will personally present each of their films at the 7 p.m. screenings at Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. The films […]

 Whether you tend to see cups as half-empty or half-full, one measure remains constant: Student fees only cover 67 percent of the Colgate experience.

Francesca Zambello ’78, an internationally renown director who has worked at many of the world’s major opera houses, will assume the reins of Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY. Zambello’s appointment to general and artistic director of the 35-year-old summer opera festival made headlines this week in regional and national media.

During his first two years at Colgate, Naledi Semela ’10 lived in the Harlem Renaissance Center (HRC). Yet he didn’t fully connect the residence’s theme to its history and culture until he took the recent Harlem Renaissance Tour. “There were portraits and artworks on the walls,” said Samela, an art and art history major, “but […]

Six students took advantage of the opportunity to share research findings and sharpen presentation skills at a recent science symposium held at Harvard Medical School. The undergraduates, who are in Colgate’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program (S-STEM), mingled with peers from other universities, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and others at the New […]

With suitcases filled with supplies carried by arms ready to do work, 65 Colgate students set out this past weekend to engage with communities in need. The Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE) and the Office of the Chaplains run alternative spring break trips for students looking to do something meaningful with their time […]

(Editor’s Note: This story was written by Kiki Koroshetz ’10) At Wednesday’s opening reception of Shapes for Hamilton, the collaborative project led by visiting artist Alan McCollum, students stood on scaffolds in Clifford Gallery, filling empty plastic slips on the walls with white pieces of paper on which black images were printed. McCollum quietly walked […]