Faculty News

Weston Testo ’12 arrived at Colgate as an undergraduate in 2008, the same year that James “Eddie” Watkins joined Colgate's faculty in the Department of Biology. In the 10 years since, Testo has grown from one of Watkins’s undergraduate students to one of his trusted colleagues.

Professors Chris Vecsey and Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky will share the 2018 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]

How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova ’16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.

The springtime symposium “Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism” will honor emeritae faculty members Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry.

Can war be both politically advantageous and morally just? According to Professor Valerie Morkevicius, the answer to this question is complicated.

Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy and his students are using NASA grant funding and images taken from the Mars Orbiter Mission to study glaciers on the red planet in an effort to further understand how that planet’s climate has changed throughout history. Images provided by the orbiter are of such high resolution that researchers on […]

Colgate political scientists are sharing their research related to major world issues this week in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage analysis section.

In this video, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Andy Pattison shares his thoughts about teaching, research, and his work in the community to address questions of sustainability and climate action planning. Pattison’s students often step outside the classroom to study and help solve environmental challenges facing local communities.

By learning experimentally rather than vicariously, students leave Colgate with all of the knowledge they need to perform high-level scientific experiments on their own.