Faculty News

Janel Benson, assistant professor of sociology, has joined the debate about family values on The New York Times. Benson, who specializes in sociology of the family, is one of the contributors to the Times‘ Room for Debate section of its website.

If, as Sir Richard Branson said on Friday, prizes are one of the best ways to encourage innovation, then President Jeffrey Herbst is on the right track with his new Colgate Innovation Awards. During his remarks before Richard Branson’s Global Leaders appearance at Colgate, Herbst talked about entrepreneurial ideas and technology — and how important it is to try new things in […]

(Editor’s note: This article is by Meika Loe, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies) March was Women’s History Month, but here at the Center for Women’s Studies, women’s history is being written every day. On Facebook we are dedicated to ongoing dialogue related to all aspects of women’s lives every month of the year.

To paraphrase Michael Stipe and R.E.M., 2012 could be the end of the world as we know it. And pioneering archaeoastronomer Tony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of astronomy and anthropology and Native American studies, has every reason to feel fine.

Colgate recently hosted “The Inner City Citizen — the Limits of Liberal Democracy,” a panel discussion and lecture featuring Glenn Loury, the distinguished economist and author who is now the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown.

When Weston Testo ’12 arrived at Colgate in 2008, little did he know that he would form an exciting and professional bond with James “Eddie” Watkins, an assistant professor of biology hired that same year. Thanks in part to their research and publication partnership, Testo received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation […]

When he visited Colgate, Major Fernando Luján, an Army Special Forces officer who has spent time embedded with Afghan National Security Forces, likened his perspective to one of the blind men in the fable who touches — and hence only knows — one part of the elephant. If so, then one could argue that Luján’s […]

Given the frequency and range of public events on campus, it’s easy to miss some of the most scholarly events that take place just under the radar. On March 17, Colgate’s geology department hosted 10 scholars for an interdisciplinary dialogue about the destabilization of ecosystems in the northeastern US, due to human-induced habitat destruction, climate […]

While students made their way back from their spring break locations earlier this week, I remained at home due to feeling ill. Even though I have not been on campus much the past few days, I felt like Colgate was still reaching out to me.

Colgate professor Peter Balakianhas been named the 2012 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance.