News and Updates

The General was a hit this past weekend as Hamilton residents, Colgate alumni, and film enthusiasts poured into the Hamilton Movie Theater.  The documentary, which focuses on the 1990 Colgate men’s hockey team, was the final film presented at the 5th annual Hamilton International Film Festival. The four-day festival, presented by Slater Brothers Entertainment, featured […]

Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at Colgate’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of Colgate’s unique visualization lab.

(Editor’s note: This article was written by Omar Aquije.) On a Friday evening in January, a few dozen Colgate alumni toured the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. In March, the group took part in a cheese-making class. A month later, sports fans among the New York City Club attended a Brooklyn Nets […]

Personal tour of the New York Stock Exchange? Check. Daily treks up the hill three times a day from 110 Broad Street? Check. Lectures from some of Colgate’s most accomplished professors? Check. This summer, 29 students visiting campus from China’s Xiamen University enjoyed an authentic sampling of the Colgate experience. The exchange program, the brainchild […]

  The Year of ’13 saw a tremendous outpouring of support for Colgate students. This week, Colgate reported that alumni, parents, and friends committed more than $48 million between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.

This week, USA Today reported that Chinese students are visiting colleges and universities in the United States in an effort to learn more about getting into grad school. “U.S. summer camps are increasingly popular in countries such as China, where the rising middle class can send their children to experience American life — and possibly set […]

Dr. Wally Sennott ’32 has not given up golf, just temporarily put aside his clubs because of the summer heat. He is, after all, 104 years old. The retired radiologist, Colgate’s second-oldest living alumnus, was the subject of a feature story in the Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Colgate graduates have the benefit of a strong liberal arts education that incorporates great internships, student-faculty research, and access to a network of amazing alumni. A new nationwide survey shows they also have the distinction of being very successful. Colgate graduates are ranked 13 for highest mid-career salary, tied with Notre Dame, Dartmouth, and Harvard, […]

Since the creation of Taylor Lake in 1905, the peaceful pond at the foot of campus has made its way into Colgate lore. It’s now the centerpiece of an annual fund challenge: five Colgate administrators will swim Taylor Lake if 1,300 recent grads (2003–2012) make a gift to the annual fund before the end of […]

Helen K. Persson, who received an honorary degree from Colgate in 1984 and has been a longtime supporter of the university, died Monday. She was 95. Persson was married to A. Theodore (Ted) Persson ’42, trustee emeritus, who passed away in 2006. The Perssons played a key role in the success of the Campaign For […]