Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Aubreya Adams, Colgate University assistant professor of geology, is one of 10 principal investigators from nine universities teaming up to deploy the single largest collection of seismometers ever assembled along the Alaskan Peninsula. Relying on $4.5 million in National Science Foundation grant funding and a fleet of airplanes and ships, the seismic experiment will place […]

The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled “CRISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution” on June 29, Assistant […]

There will be a Celebration of Life for Bruce Selleck ’71 in the Colgate Memorial Chapel on Saturday, October 14, beginning at 3:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the celebration in the Ho Atrium, Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. In addition, the geology department will be holding a reception at the Colgate Inn in […]

Ten minutes before totality — astronomer Anthony Aveni sets the stage for readers who have not seen a total solar eclipse — the light will be almost fifty thousand times brighter than a full moonlit sky. Read about Aveni in the Colgate Scene

Spot the difference: A group of people or people in a group? While these phrases might seem interchangeable at first glance, recent research by Erin Cooley, assistant professor of psychology, shows that humans interpret these similar statements in unexpected ways. Cooley’s research investigates the topic of mind perception — the idea that we can ascribe […]

Following her Space Camp experience, Heldmann’s interest in planetary sciences grew exponentially while majoring in astrogeophysics at Colgate.

Colgate students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are keeping our community posted on their progress. Christine Horn ’19, from Corning, N.Y., wrote this dispatch about her research, funded through the Beckman Scholars Program. Has the agriculture industry’s selection of redder, juicier, […]

Chemistry professor Ernie Nolen has spent his career building complex synthetic molecules. Now he is bringing his expertise to detecting and defeating diseases like cancer.

Colgate neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak — and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder. Professor Wan-Chun Liu’s lab is filled with the mellifluous tweets and squeaks of zebra finches, a small songbird native to Australia. The birds are highly social animals […]