Alumni Profiles

Murray Decock has retired as Senior Advisor to the President for Strategic Initiatives.

Join Colgate Alumnus Nick Kokonas, co-owner of the world-renowned Alinea, Next, Aviary, Aviary NYC, Roister, and the St. Clair Supper Club, as he shares his thoughts about experiential dining, Twitter dustups, and how he is taking on an established tech giant to improve how restaurants handle online reservations in this episode of 13.

After graduating in May 2019 with a degree in molecular biology, Shushe spent seven weeks in the Republic of Kosovo presenting her Bigger Smiles Project on oral health to children and teenagers, funded by Davis Projects for Peace.

Sponsored by the political science department, Career Services, and the Maroon-News, author Pamela Druckerman ’91 shared how she built her career as a freelance journalist.

Colgate’s 2019 Alumni of Color scholar in residence, Dianne Stewart ’90, associate professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, visited classrooms and delivered two public lectures as part of her two-week residency on campus last semester.

On April 5, the history department hosted a History Conversations panel during which students and alumni discussed possible career trajectories.

An Alumni Memorial Scholar discusses the program's influence.

Lacey Williams ’16 has added some teeth to her CV. The alumna recently co-published a paper, titled “Disappearance of white sharks leads to the novel emergence of an allopatric apex predator, the sevengill shark,” in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

Looking back, I can see an interesting connection between my current life in the Windy City, three months in Sin City, and four years in Hamilton, N.Y.: a propensity for intellectual omnivorism.

Since graduating from Colgate University in 2015, Timmera Whaley has used her experiences — of which many often can only dream — to explore her passion for environmental justice.