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Last week was a busy week at Colgate University. While this is a mini-highlight of what was making news, you can skip this post and go right to comments to tell us your news from the past week. Here are just some of the things we were talking about:

In the past week, Colgate University faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts. As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on Professor Anthony Aveni for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or […]

Patricia Hill Collins, a social theorist who studies race, gender, social class, work, and family, came to Colgate recently to deliver the annual W.E.B. and Shirley Graham DuBois Lecture, hosted by the Africana/Latin American Studies Department.

One’s hand starts to cramp just imagining the hours dedicated to the intricate beadwork decorating the 200-plus pieces in Birds and Beasts in Beads: 150 Years of Iroquois Beadwork. The Longyear Museum of Anthropology exhibition, which runs until Oct. 30, includes box purses with beaded loops dripping off the bottom, embellished pincushions, and colorful three-dimensional […]

Former Colgate professor Arnold A. Sio, a forerunner in teaching race relations at the university level, passed away June 29 in Kingston, N.Y. He was 93.