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  • A Colgate alum stands on scafolding during the construction of Professor DeWitt Godfrey's newest sculpture, Odin.
    A confluence of art, engineering, and mathematics led to the creation of Colgate Professor DeWitt Godfrey鈥檚 latest sculpture, Odin, a giant steel structure now nestled in the courtyard between Olin Hall and the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. The sculpture shares a name with the ruler of Norse gods for a reason. Godfrey鈥檚 Odin weighs [鈥
    November 21, 2014
  • Soldier and Child, Soldier and Child at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. (Photo by Andr茅 Simonyi)
    Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled 鈥淯kraine and Russia: The Agency of War鈥 for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal鈥檚 editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal鈥檚 鈥淗ot Spots鈥 [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • This is an artist鈥檚 impression of the triple star system GG Tau A
    An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, Colgate associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a 鈥減lanet-forming lifeline鈥 in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [鈥
    November 5, 2014
  • Book cover showing a zombie hand holding money
    Colgate Assistant Professor of Economics Michael O鈥橦ara has contributed a ghoulish chapter to Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, a recently published book that takes an academic approach to some of the favorite horror traditions of film land.
    October 31, 2014
  • In a Huffington Post story titled 鈥10 Uses of Drones in Higher Education,鈥 marketer Vala Afshar highlights 海角社区鈥檚 innovative use of a drone to capture the activity and spirit of the 2013 move-in day, when first-year students arrive on campus. Here鈥檚 the video from that day, captured by a GoPro camera attached to a [鈥
    October 29, 2014
  • Two recent talks by Colgate professors give some context to the ebola outbreak response from two angles, one by a virologist examining the nature of epidemics, and the other from a perspective of government response, specifically in Liberia.
    October 3, 2014