News and Updates

Hamilton – Colgate University’s Family Weekend will feature a performance by Belarussian-born pianist Andrey Ponochevny on Sunday, September 26 at 3:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Ponochevny, 21 years old, is the winner of the 1998 William Kappell International Piano Competition, as well as numerous other competition prizes worldwide. He received his first honor […]

HAMILTON ‘ Colgate University will host a live performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest by the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival on Wednesday, September 15 at 3:00 p.m. at the Sanford Field House. The play will be directed by Josh Gladstone, a Colgate alumnus and artistic director of the festival, which he founded in 1996. Students and teachers […]

HAMILTON – Playwright, poet and essayist Cherrie Moraga, whose plays and publications have received national recognition, will appear at Colgate University on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the ALANA Cultural Center. Moraga’s work has earned her a Theatre Communications Group Theatre Artist Residency Grant in 1996, the NEA’s Theatre Playwrights’ Fellowship in 1993 […]

Hamilton – The Colgate University Concert Series starts its ‘Faculty Features at Midday’ with a concert in Colgate Memorial Chapel at noon on Tuesday, September 14 featuring music of the 20th century for solo flute, solo cello, and accompanied soprano. The concert will be performed by four Syracuse musicians: John Oberbrunner, flute, George Macero, cello, […]

Hamilton, NY — The 1999 Living Writers series at Colgate University opens Thursday, September 9 with Rosellen Brown, who will give a public reading at 4:30 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room, 105 Lawrence. According to Frederick Busch, Fairchild Professor of English, who teaches the class, the Living Writers course is both an investigation […]

WASHINGTON ‘ Long at war with the sea, the city of Venice today faces perhaps its greatest challenge ever: The rate of sea-level rise is accelerating, a new archaeological study says. The research also shows that people inhabited the Lagoon of Venice as far back as the third century and have struggled with its rising […]

Hamilton – Valedictorian Boryana Vladimirova Zamanova of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and salutatorian Matthew Stephen Godleski are the top students in Colgate University’s graduating Class of 1999. Both were elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year and will graduate summa cum laude. Zamanova, who majored in both economics and German, will receive the bachelor of arts […]

Hamilton, NY — Edouard Manet and Etching at Mid-Century is an exhibition of prints that will be on display in the Upper Gallery of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University from May 12-June 6 1999. A brochure will be made available at the Gallery. A French painter and printmaker working in the late nineteenth […]

Hamilton – AlliedSignal, Inc. has presented $21,500 in grants to Colgate University to support three important projects at the school for the 1999-2000 academic year. The grants will support stipends for student summer research assistants in chemistry and physics, and access to the sophisticated graphical database Science and Technology Network, as well as Beilstein, the […]

Hamilton, NY — , APRIL 27, 1999 ‘ Charles Karelis, since 1985 director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), will succeed Neil R. Grabois as president of Colgate University on July 1. Karelis was introduced to the Colgate community today by the chairman of the college’s board of trustees, Wm. Brian […]