News and Updates

Hamilton, NY — A program titled ‘Contemporary music with bass in mind’ will be presented by Darryl Pugh, teacher of bass at Colgate, on Tuesday, February 29 at noon in Colgate Memorial Chapel. The works are all modern double bass pieces in an acoustic environment, dating from the last quarter of the 20th century. A […]

Hamilton, NY — Violinist Midori, who first came to public attention at age 10 when she debuted with the New York Philharmonic, and her partner-pianist Robert McDonald, will be in residence March 4 and 5 at Colgate University. During that time the two will perform and hold masterclasses, and Midori will give a public lecture. […]

Hamilton, NY — Storyteller Alicia Quintano will perform an original monologue from her one-woman show Love is Hell & Other Stories in Colgate University’s Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public and is being co-sponsored by the interdepartmental campus committee Fighting Eating Disorders, the […]

Hamilton, NY — The Colgate University Orchestra, Marietta Cheng, conductor, will open its first concert of the winter season with Dvorak’s rollicking Scherzo Capriccioso, on Sunday afternoon, February 27, at 3:30 p.m. The program will also feature one of the orchestral repertoire’s most impassioned works, Rachmaninov’s stunning Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 2, […]

Hamilton, NY — Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator John McCain has accepted Colgate University’s invitation to address the graduating Class of 2000 at its Commencement on Sunday, May 21 in Hamilton, New York. Colgate’s senior class is made up of nearly 700 students and the May event will stand as Colgate University’s 179th commencement ceremony. […]

Hamilton, NY — Margaret McKelvey, director of the Africa and Asia Division U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Refugees and Migration, will deliver a lecture at Colgate University titled ‘Challenges in international refugee assistance: is there a need for new humanitarian approaches” on Monday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, to be held in […]

Hamilton, NY — – Each year, hundreds of Colgate University students participate in a wide variety of off-campus study programs that provide a rich mixture of cultural experience and academic discipline. Most of Colgate’s study groups are led by the school’s own faculty members, which provides a measure of control over the program and continuity […]

HAMILTON ‘ Author John A. Jackson will deliver a lecture titled ‘Rock Makers: Alan Freed, Dick Clark, and the Rise of Rock and Roll,’ on Thursday, November 4 at 8:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Colgate University Department of Interdisciplinary Writing and the Colgate University Writing Center, Jackson’s talk will take place in the Ho Lecture […]

HAMILTON ‘ Douglas Massey, co-author of Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century’s End, and one of the country’s leading voices in contemporary social science, will speak on ‘Reasonable Immigration Policies for a Globalizing Economy’ at Colgate University on Wednesday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Persson Hall Auditorium. The Dorothy Swaine Thomas […]

HAMILTON – The Colgate Chamber Players, under the direction of Professor Laura Klugherz, will present a concert titled Fall Musings on Sunday, November 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Highlighted on this fall program are Danzas de Panama by African American composer William Grant Still, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 by J. S. […]