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  • The Doric columns of Memorial Chapel. The Latin inscription on James C. Colgate Hall. The university motto. Students and faculty encounter these vestiges of the classical world on campus almost daily. As the university鈥檚 bicentennial approaches, a spring seminar course and current exhibition highlight these classical traditions alongside the history of Colgate. Deo ac Veritati: [鈥
    July 1, 2017
  • Five Royal Goldweights Ghana, ca. 16th鈥18th century Brass, Photography by Eileen Travell
    A British iPad drawing, beaded Cameroonian sculpture, battle helmet鈥搕urned-lyre, and an Impressionist oil painting all may have been created oceans apart, but these works have come together in Hamilton, N.Y. They鈥檙e four of many pieces on display in the Picker Art Gallery鈥檚 exhibition Colgate Alumni Collect, which merges the artistic mindsets of four alumni who collect [鈥
    June 12, 2017
  • Studio art major Kris Pfister 鈥17, of Iberia, Ohio, wanted their senior thesis to be more than a gallery piece. Pfister wanted the work directly to address the issue of homelessness among the LGBTQ community. Sure, the work, 鈥淐asting Off,鈥 would live in a gallery during an annual senior art exhibition, but the reach of [鈥
    May 26, 2017
  • Joe Berlinger '83 on the set of Intent to Destroy
    When filmmaker Joe Berlinger 鈥83 appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25 for the premiere of his latest documentary, Intent to Destroy, he had another member of the Colgate community by his side: English and humanities professor Peter Balakian, whose class Berlinger had taken years ago.
    May 24, 2017
  • A scenic view of Colgate's campus and hillside from a distant with dramatic lighting
    Wondering what鈥檚 happening in the classroom at Colgate? Here鈥檚 a real-time glimpse into academic life on campus 鈥 a syllabus from a course underway this semester.
    April 25, 2017
  • Ceramics from Thailand, 13th鈥16th century CE
    Pottery is one of humanity鈥檚 oldest art forms, and the perfection of its techniques has been thousands of years in the making. The exhibition Earth to Fire: Pottery Technologies Around the World, currently on display in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology, sheds light on the various technologies and tactics used by potters from different regions [鈥
    March 9, 2017
  • The Harlem Quartet plays at Colgate
    Beats from Cuba and Brazil mixed with the classics when the internationally acclaimed Harlem Quartet performed at Memorial Chapel on February 19.
    March 6, 2017
  • Professor Albert Ammerman
    In Europe, the transition from hunting and gathering to farming did not happen overnight. But in the Western Mediterranean, it happened much faster than in any other region of Europe 鈥 or the rest of the world for that matter.
    March 3, 2017
  • Claudia Rankine
    Nationally-renowned poet Claudia Rankine, a recipient of the 2016 MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥 Award,  will deliver the keynote address at Colgate鈥檚 196th commencement Sunday, May 21, in Sanford Field House. Rankine, the Frederick Iseman Professor of poetry at Yale University, is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don鈥檛 Let Me [鈥
    February 28, 2017