News and Updates

In this episode of 13, Director of Off-Campus Study Joanna Holvey-Bowles and Associate Professor of Geology Martin Wong, associate dean of the faculty for global and local initiatives, discuss Colgate’s off-campus study offerings, learning outside of your comfort zone, and the pandemic’s impact on Colgate’s longstanding programs abroad.

The Clifford Gallery hosted the opening of its first exhibition of the academic year with Alex Schweder’s The Sound and The Future on Sept. 8.

The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization sponsored a Constitution Day Debate, “Big Tech and Liberal Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in the Digital Age,” on Friday, Sept. 17.

In this episode of 13, Colgate’s sustainability staff members talk biomass — the primary heat source for the University — and how burning locally sourced wood chips helped Colgate on its path to carbon neutrality.

In this special episode of 13, Associate Professor of English Jennifer Brice and Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies Ryan Hall discuss this year’s Living Writers series. 

A Colgate-led biology symposium on canine research has led to the publication of a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, focusing on the special qualities of dog research and how the species is a perfect launching point to teach many facets of the discipline.

Dean of Students Dorsey Spencer Jr. and Director of Residential Life Danielle Nied discuss Arrival Day 2021 and give advice to new students and their families. 

The use of wood chips as Colgate University’s primary energy source for heating and hot water was an important component of its efforts to becoming the first university in New York State to achieve carbon neutrality in 2019.

A newly announced National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) round of grant funding will help one Colgate professor to develop and run a three-week, residential institute about abolitionism and the Underground Railroad for 25 middle- and high-school teachers.

Renee Madison, director of human resources for the City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Ind., has been named vice president for equity and inclusion at Colgate University.