• Colgate’s Blackmore Media Center, the new state-of-the-art home of student-run radio station WRCU (90.1), garnered attention in this week’s issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. In a full-page story, The Chronicle’s Brock Read takes readers down memory lane, reminiscing about a distant era in college radio, thanks to the fond recollections of his father […]
    March 20, 2009
  • (Editor’s note: As of Wednesday, March 25, all tickets to the lecture have been reserved.) Tickets for former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s lecture, “Leadership: Taking Charge,” at Colgate are now available to the public. As part of the university’s Global Leaders Lecture Series, Powell will give a talk at 8 p.m. Friday, April 3. […]
    March 19, 2009
  • As the quest for a winning NCAA basketball tournament bracket takes place in office pools across the country, a Colgate senior is making a splash of her own. Emily Murphy will be swimming at this weekend’s NCAA championship meet at Texas A&M, making her the first Colgate woman swimmer to compete at the Division I […]
    March 18, 2009
  • Members of the Colgate Model African Union team took full advantage of an opportunity to broaden their worldview at a recent conference in Washington, D.C. The team attended Howard University’s annual Model African Union conference and performed extremely well, distinguishing itself from more than 20 participating colleges.
    March 17, 2009
  • Spring break means different things to different students, and there are opportunities galore for recharging personal batteries, taking advantage of internships, learning about leading and managing groups, or offering a helping hand. Some students are participating in university-organized alternative spring break trips when classes shut down for a week beginning March 13. Here is a […]
    March 12, 2009
  • Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, will deliver a lecture at 7:30 p.m. March 26 in Memorial Chapel. During his talk, “President Obama & the Future of the American Freedom,” Gingrich will assess Obama’s policies and administration and discuss the future of the Republican Party. Gingrich’s lecture, sponsored by the university’s Center […]
    March 10, 2009
  • Case Aiken III ’06, Adam Samtur ’06, and Matthew Kagen ’07 didn’t set out to start a theater company; they just wanted to produce a play from soup to nuts and see what happened. Now, under the production company Just ASK (Aiken, Samtur, Kagen), the trio is enjoying the success of their first show and […]
    March 9, 2009
  • “It’s a bit like being in a washing machine,” Paul Ridley ’05 said about sleeping on Liv, the 19-foot rowboat that he is sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to raise $500,000 for cancer research. Ridley talks about his expedition in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, the podcast series that highlights members […]
    March 5, 2009