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Colgate students are participating in internships in a variety of fields and locations this summer. This post is by Zac Lomas ’15, a history and English double major from Buffalo, N.Y. In the summer of 2012, I interned at a Buffalo-based law firm and promptly learned that I did not want to be a lawyer. […]

Colgate faculty members will join together to walk the Camino de Santiago, the route to the shrine of the apostle St. James who is said to be buried in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The interdisciplinary experience is made possible through the Kallgren Fund, an endowed fund created to support faculty members […]

Striking images of Holocaust victims overlaid with paint and text stare back at viewers as they encounter the pieces in the exhibition One Day, One Woman, One Child — which will be in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology until this Friday. 

Yesterday, the Colgate community joined South Africans and people across the world in honoring the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.

R.M. (Ray) Douglas, professor of history at Colgate, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 George Louis Beer Prize for his book Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (Yale Univ. Press, 2012). The Beer Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) in recognition […]

Colgate students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by history major Caitlin Sackrison ’15, of Minnetonka, Minn. This summer I conducted research on over 75 19th-century French political cartoons found in the Colgate archives. I was funded through a grant from the Division […]

As events rapidly unfold in Egypt, experts at Colgate are discussing the groundswell of public dissatisfaction with that country’s democratically elected government, and how the Egyptian population now appears largely in favor of a military coup. Bruce Rutherford, Colgate associate professor of political science and director of Middle Eastern and Islamic civilization studies, is intimately […]

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.

Beyond ancient ruins, temples, mosques, and historic churches of Istanbul, participants in a recent interfaith trip to Turkey explored their own religious beliefs and perceptions. Only traditional Turkish cuisine was on the menu and trips to McDonalds were forbidden. Led by Rabbi Dena Bodian, associate university chaplain and director of Jewish life, and Noor Khan, […]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to Colgate for use over four years, to support a new program of Mellon Sophomore Residential Seminars. The initiative will create a series of courses — to be offered every year for a substantial number of sophomores — in which students will live and study […]