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The life of an acclaimed sports journalist is filled with many interesting opportunities and experiences, but it would be a mistake to think that these can be achieved without hard work and persistence. That message was emphasized by Peter King, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, who spoke Wednesday to a group of Colgate University […]

By day, Jamal Patterson ’97 works as a sales executive for an orthodontics company. By night, Patterson trades his business suit for boxing shorts as he trains for his next match as a mixed martial arts fighter. It’s a double life, of sorts, that caught the attention of The New York Times.

The U.S. health-care system must move from an emphasis on intervention to one of prevention and early diagnosis if it is to provide real value to American consumers. That is one of the topics Dr. Michael J. Wolk ’60 discusses in the latest episode of Colgate Conversations, a podcast series that highlights members of the […]

The remaining tickets for the much-anticipated lecture by the Dalai Lama at Colgate University were snatched up by the general public in just three hours Saturday. The free tickets were available via the Colgate Bookstore’s website starting at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Last Friday I stepped into the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall to get a sense of what life was like many centuries ago on another continent. I came away with just that, and more. The Colgate Medieval Colloquium focused on literature from that time period, and the expression “medieval literature” flooded my mind with […]

An interdisciplinary symposium — Nature/Place/Cinema — will be spread out over two weekends and two campuses (Colgate University and Hamilton College) providing students with behind-the-scenes access to filmmakers and film scholars. The series of screenings and lectures will draw attention to the depiction of place and the environment, as well as the history of the […]

“The sole purpose of the company is to give,” said musician PJ Johnson. What Johnson was talking about was TOMS Shoes, a nonprofit organization that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased. Last Friday, Johnson performed with two other musicians from Nashville, Tenn., Tim Schurrer and Adam Agin, […]

“It was the best experience of my life.” That was the simple text message that Jesse Winchester ’08 had sent to the Colgate athletics department after his NHL debut on Saturday night. Winchester, a dominant force for the Raiders hockey team the past four years, jumped directly to the NHL after being signed by the Ottawa […]