News and Updates

Members of the Colgate community were mentioned in the national media last month in ways that crossed disciplines and touched on national conversations that reached far beyond our campus in Hamilton, N.Y. January media highlights included Professor Albert Ammerman’s work in assisting with excavations of the oldest Roman temple in the pages of the New […]

Here are a few events that are definitely worth checking out this week, including a lecture by Nikki Giovanni,  this year’s Black History Month keynote speaker. Giovanni will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday in  Love Auditorium, hosted by the Black Student Union. She is one of America’s most distinguished African-American poets, authors, and essayists. Her […]

Classes are once again in full swing, and so are the many activities available around campus.  As students return to their studies, be sure to make time in your new schedules to check out the many events, lectures, and information sessions Colgate has to offer this week! Would you be interested in living and traveling […]

Benjamin Todd Jealous, the youngest president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, provided listeners with a roadmap for successful organizing during his MLK Week keynote address on Thursday night. Jealous’s talk at Memorial Chapel was titled “The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Movements.” “This is normally a talk […]

(Editor’s Note: This speech was given by Marshall Scott ’14 at the opening ceremony in Memorial Chapel for MLK Week. Scott is from Virginia Beach, Va., and majors in sociology.) Last August, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and today in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we take a […]

The USA Today College section featured an interview with Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs at Colgate. The article is called “College students revolutionize meaning of MLK Day,” and it talks about the changing message of Martin Luther King Jr.

In many universities and academic settings, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is celebrated on one day.  At Colgate, it will be celebrated for an entire week. Thomas Cruz-Soto, associate dean of multicultural affairs and main organizer of MLK Week, explained that Colgate has “so many different faculty members and other people who want to be […]

Alumni ranging from the Class of 1952 through 2013 will be interacting with each other and with current students through an online academic project based on The Advent of the Atomic Bomb course taught by Associate Professor of Geology Karen Harpp. More than 330 alumni have signed up so far (registration remains open) for the […]

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has been awarded a three-year $1.25 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support new collaborations in the areas of globalization and language learning. The six consortium members are Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, St. Lawrence University, Skidmore College, and Union College. […]

Oswald (Ozzie) A. Honkalehto, professor of economics emeritus who taught at Colgate from 1962 to 1995, died Sunday, December 29, 2013, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. Honkalehto taught courses in macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and the department’s honors seminar, which he originated.  He also was  responsible for developing the mathematical economics concentration soon after […]