News and Updates

Lacey Williams ’16 has added some teeth to her CV. The alumna recently co-published a paper, titled “Disappearance of white sharks leads to the novel emergence of an allopatric apex predator, the sevengill shark,” in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has named Colgate University as one of the nation’s top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2018–2019 academic year.

While nearly two decades separate their time at Colgate, Julie Cohen ’86, Chris White ’91, and Matt Renner ’01 will find themselves under the same roof on February 24: as executive co-producers and directors for films nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Oscars.

Since the University’s Summer Funding initiative was founded in 2013, more than $3 million has been utilized by Colgate students pursuing various summer programs worldwide.

Professor Alicia Simmons and the Politics of Dissent Featured on Today’s Academic Minute

The Greek Parliament has agreed that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – its name for the country to the northwest of Greece since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 – can now be called the Republic of Northern Macedonia.

Four Colgate Alumni instrumental in publishing the most recent National Climate Assessment (NCA) returned to Colgate last week to discuss their findings with students.

When 13 students journeyed across the pond to start their fall 2018 semester abroad in Manchester, few of them had an interest in immigration or the refugee crisis. Once immersed in their classwork, however, they quickly united to stand for human rights in the region.

Leon Panetta, former U.S. secretary of defense and co-founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, will address the Colgate community on Friday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Colgate Memorial Chapel.

This year, Colgate’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration included two weeks of robust programming, Jan. 21–Feb. 1, centered on the theme “Thriving in the Current Times.”