News and Updates

The Barge, the Colgate-owned coffeehouse in downtown Hamilton, and the recently renovated Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology scored some major props this morning on SI.com, the online home of Sports Illustrated.

Colgate rugby players both past and present gathered on Academy Field recently to celebrate important milestones: the 40th anniversary of the men’s club and the 25th anniversary of the women’s squad.

An exhibition with a poignant message about driving drunk will be displayed at Colgate University from Oct. 22 to Nov. 12 in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology.

This weekend, Colgate’s Upstate Institute will host a series of events honoring four abolitionists who helped pave the way for freedom. The celebration will culminate with the induction of John Brown, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, and Sojourner Truth into the National Abolition Hall of Fame (NAHOF).

The Office of Public Relations and Communications is moving to a new platform for posting and distributing stories that appear on www.colgate.edu.

If the library is the heart of the university, Colgate’s pulse quickened with Friday’s dedication of the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology. The campus community welcomed alumni and friends from around the region for a marathon celebration of the $57.5 million facility, built on the footprint of the former Case Library.

For Jessica Kahn ’08, who took the LSAT test last weekend, Thursday’s law school fair came at a great time.

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Students, faculty, staff, and local community members gathered at Colgate’s Picker Art Gallery last week to celebrate the launch of a new exhibition, Chuck Close: Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, 2000.

Colgate celebrated the sciences this weekend with two major events: the dedication of the new Robert H.N. Ho Science Center and the launch of the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sciences and Mathematics.