News and Updates

Hamilton – A concert titled ‘Good Neighbors: Mexican and American Music’ will take place in the Colgate Memorial Chapel on Sunday, March 7, at 3:30 p.m. Violinist Laura Klugherz, professor of music at Colgate, and pianist Steven Heyman, who teaches at Syracuse University, will present the program. Klugherz, who also teaches a course on the […]

Hamilton – Catherine Kodat, assistant professor of English and American studies at Hamilton College, will participate in the Colgate University Humanities Colloquium on Tuesday, March 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall). The title of her lecture will be ‘I’m Spartacus: Or, To Russia With Love.’ Kodat, who holds M.A. […]

Hamilton – The roots rock of The Samples will return to Colgate University on Saturday, February 27, bringing their renown live act to the Hall of Presidents at 9:00 p.m. Supporting act Seeking Homer will open the event. With an infusion of live energy and inspired songwriting, The Samples have been described by many as […]

Hamilton, NY — Colgate University has elected 37 seniors to the Eta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national scholastic honorary society, in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Initiation of these new members will take place on May 15 as part of Commencement Weekend activities. New members of Phi Beta Kappa promise to have ‘paramount […]

Boston magazine’s ‘Best of Boston’ singer/songwriter Kevin Connolly will give a concert at the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. Connolly’s music ‘cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock ‘ and often a combination […]

Kelly Joe Phelps will bring his acoustic country blues to the Barge Canal Coffee Company on Lebanon Street on Friday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m. Though Phelps has lived all his life in the state of Washington, he plays country blues as if he were born and bred on the Mississippi Delta. With a husky […]

Hamilton – Poet Erin Belieu will give a reading of her work at Colgate University on Tuesday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall). The reading is co-sponsored by the university’s Humanities Colloquium Series and the English Department Poetry Series. Of her own poetry, Erin Belieu says, ‘I know […]

Hamilton – Marya Hornbacher, author of the book Wasted, spoke at Colgate University about body image and eating disorders on February 8. Wasted is a ‘vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir’ of the author’s own struggle with anorexia and bulimia. It tells the gripping story of how she stepped ‘through the looking glass into a netherworld where […]

Hamilton – Soprano Lauralyn Kolb will join forces with tenor David Parks and pianist Tina Toglia to present a program of duets and art songs that spans the vocal repertoire on Sunday, February 21 at 3:30 in the afternoon in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. Works written by Haydn, Handel, Schubert, Brahms, Donizetti, Faith and Duke […]

Hamilton – Poet, novelist, critic and editor Nathaniel Mackey will give a reading of his work at Colgate University on Thursday, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall). The reading is co-sponsored by the university’s Humanities Colloquium Series and the English Department Poetry Series. Mackey, who is also a […]