News and Updates

When Reader’s Digest was looking to create a list of the world’s most famous lost treasures, they turned to Colgate’s Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland, who offered one of his favorite pieces of missing history. Read the full article online.

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]

Step back in time with Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland as he shares what it was like in a day in the life of an ancient Athenian. This new animated video was produced by Ted-Ed. Garland’s academic work has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal […]

Members of the Colgate community gathered on Wednesday morning to send the women’s hockey team off in style as they embarked on their first trip to the Frozen Four.

Can knitting be used as an act of defiance? Jennifer LeMesurier, professor of writing and rhetoric at Colgate University, describes how hands in motion can help make a commotion.

How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova ’16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.

Christina Weiler ’21 believes in the value of waste. The truth about waste, she says, is that it is a part of us, and we are responsible for it. In order to put plastic in a place where it belongs, Weiler came up with the UCan project, a beverage container recycling initiative that gives its […]

For the first time in program history, the Colgate women’s ice hockey team is heading to the NCAA Tournament. Colgate will host Northeastern Saturday, March 10, at 3 p.m. at the Class of 1965 Arena.

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading independent, nonpartisan organization in the United States devoted to issues of foreign policy and international relations, will deliver the commencement address on Sunday, May 20, 2018. In his 15th year as president of the council, Haass was previously the senior Middle East advisor to […]

The springtime symposium “Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism” will honor emeritae faculty members Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry.