• Colgate students are reflecting on their summer research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Natasha Torres ’15, an educational studies major and women’s studies minor from Cleveland, Ohio, who was given an award for outstanding research at the fall student poster session. My study abroad experience, which included a […]
    September 8, 2014
  • Students participate in an archeological dig while studying abroad
    Colgate wrote the book on off-campus study. The storied Washington D.C. study group, a unique semester-long NIH experience, faculty-led trips around the globe, and research abroad — all of these options for off-campus learning add depth to the Colgate experience. Last winter, Kara Vadman ’14 and Mikhaila Redovian ’15 joined geology professor Amy Leventer aboard […]
    June 23, 2014
  • The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has been awarded a three-year $1.25 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support new collaborations in the areas of globalization and language learning. The six consortium members are Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, St. Lawrence University, Skidmore College, and Union College. […]
    January 8, 2014
  • Six international first-year students received digital cameras this summer to help chronicle their journey to campus. For most of the students, it was their first trip to the United States. The six students captured more than 30 gigabytes of photos and video from their hometowns and their travels to rural Hamilton, N.Y. Among the images […]
    November 20, 2013
  • Thomas Cruz-Soto, Arlene Robles ’15, Benjamin Rangel ’15, and Gisselle Perez-Leon ’15 (from left) pose for a photo in Madrid, Spain, at the World University Debate Championship in Spanish.
    Members of the Colgate Speaking Union traveled to Madrid, Spain, this summer to compete in an all-Spanish-language debate tournament, representing one of just three schools from the United States at the international event. Gisselle Perez-Leon ’15, Benjamin Rangel ‘15, and Arlene Robles ’15 spent 11 days in Spain for the World University Debate Championship in […]
    September 11, 2013
  • Some International Student Orientation participants take a break from scheduled programming to do a little creative engineering.
    New international students arrived on campus last week, just a few days before throngs of cars packed Whitnall Field for first-year move-in day Saturday. The pre-Orientation program for international students is designed to help ease the transition for those traveling to Hamilton, N.Y., from outside the United States. Assistant Dean and Office of International Student […]
    August 25, 2013
  • Orator Anthony Tamburro ’14 was one of five London Study Group students to talk to a crowd at Hyde Park’s famous Speakers’ Corner.
    Karl Marx reportedly did it. So did George Orwell, or so the story goes. But it’s definitely 100 percent true that Anthony Tamburro ’14, Caroline Kraeutler ’14, and three of their classmates on Colgate’s London Study Group made their positions heard at the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, near the Marble Arch tube station.
    April 22, 2013