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Alumnus Mark Murphy, the man who led the Colgate football team as captain and went on to lead the athletics department as director, has been named president of one of the most storied franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. The team’s board of directors on Monday unanimously approved the appointment of Murphy, 52, […]

Like a true biophysicist, Krissy Williams ’06, a graduate student at the University of Rochester, is thinking big, while focusing on the very small. Williams presented a lecture about her research to students and faculty members, some of whom were once professors of hers, on Tuesday in Lathrop Hall.

Colgate offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That’s why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to […]

While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko ’09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn’t have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she […]

“To have Susan Marshall on campus is a really big deal.” That is how Emily Rawdon ’10 described the recent visit to Colgate University by Susan Marshall & Company, a renowned dance company based in New York City.

Instead of rushing home when the last school bell of the day rings, budding Hamilton area artists are heading to the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. On Monday afternoons, the Picker is transformed into a classroom as inquisitive 6-to 10- year olds let their imaginations run wild while attending the gallery’s after-school art club.

Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at MIT, attracted a sizeable crowd for his global warming discussion at Colgate University last week. Lindzen’s visit to campus was sponsored by Colgate’s Center for Ethics and World Societies. By disproving scientific statements regarding the negative impacts of climate change, he attempted to show that […]

New York’s first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited Colgate Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.