News and Updates

While preparing to enter the Soil and Water Sciences PhD program at the University of Florida this fall, Michael Francis James ’17 worked with a committee of colleagues in his home country of Trinidad and Tobago to stage the nation’s first Pride Arts Festival. He continues to advocate for legal reform on behalf of LGBTQ citizens.

How do people experience government promoted ideas of peace after mass atrocity? Susan Thomson, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, explores this question and more in Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press).

Tara Bubble, deputy director of undergraduate admissions at Cornell University, has been named dean of admission at Colgate University. She will take up her new post on October 15.

For Colgate students, summer signals opportunities for intellectual growth outside of the classroom, career preparation, and the exploration of new interests.

Colgate students will now have the opportunity to apply for special 10-week paid summer internships with major companies located in Germany, thanks to the university’s new membership in the German American Exchange (GAE).

Looking back on another successful fiscal year, the campus community is honoring the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends. Overall giving to Colgate rose nearly 10 percent to $35.1 million between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018.

Mathematics and economics double major Kayla Logar ’20, from Denver, Penn., describes her research with the Adirondack Foundation in Lake Placid, N.Y., as part of her summer opportunity at the Upstate Institute. 

On September 22 at 8 p.m., the legendary ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire will appear in Sanford Field House for a concert honoring Colgate at 200 Years.

Colgate Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology Carrie Keating told the Washington Post that she was, “almost slack-jawed with amazement by the end of President Trump’s news conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin Monday.” Keating, whose research focuses on nonverbal and physiognomic elements of social dominance, influence, power, status, leadership, and […]

During the summer months, Colgate students are fanning out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings, and they are keeping our community posted on their progress. Physics major Ally Shahidi ’19 (Madison, N.J.) describes her work in making important historical documents digitally accessible.  This summer, I am creating a […]