News and Updates

Colgate recognized 730 students for earning an A.B. degree, plus 6 master of arts in teaching and one master of arts, during Commencement Weekend 2024, May 17–19. Financier-turned-human-rights-activist and author Bill Browder gave the commencement address.

During its spring meetings, the Colgate University Board of Trustees approved resolutions regarding faculty promotions to associate professor with continuous tenure and to full professor, as well as appointments to named chairs — all of which will take effect July 1, 2024.

Colgate University’s annual celebration of sustainability, the 13 Days of Green, kicked off on April 10 this year.

Colgate University recently hosted a lecture by Avery Trufelman, host of the fashion podcast Articles of Interest.

Protestant Campus Minister Corey MacPherson has been named University chaplain for a three-year term beginning July 1. 

Colgate University Residential Commons will welcome new co-directors at the beginning of the 2024–25 academic year.

Colgate University will host an episode of Ivory Tower April 17 in Colgate Memorial Chapel.

Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years ago, former Colgate University president Rebecca Chopp has embraced the visual arts and dance as part of her “prescription” to live life to the fullest.

Gwen Eichfeld ’25 has been named as a recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship. She was also recently chosen as a Harvard-Amgen Scholar.

A team of astrophysicists has found three bright objects that might be “dark stars.”