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“Understanding the role that church forests play in the provision of ecosystem services is critical,” wrote Colgate biology professor Catherine Cardelús and two colleagues in a letter published in Science, the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Two Colgate professors — Rebecca Miller Ammerman, classics, and Randy Fuller, biology — along with seven collaborative partners across the globe, received major research grants from Colgate’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute. Both projects, as envisioned by Harvey M. Picker ’36 when he established the institute in 2006, extend the reach and resources of Colgate faculty members […]

After co-leading 27 members of Colgate’s faculty around India for two weeks, Professor Padma Kaimal was all the more convinced that the enterprise would have lasting impact on Colgate.

The Manhattan String Quartet arrived on campus this week to perform for and instruct Colgate students and faculty. The quartet offered several classes for students who were interested in learning about the evolution of classical music.

An exhaustive seven-year project by Nigel Young, who was Cooley Professor of peace studies and director of the Peace Studies Program at Colgate from 1984 to 2004, has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in the Award for Scholarship category.

A scientist wearing lace wings paces about the stage, while a blue-and-white “bird spirit,” also costumed in lace and feathers, sings her a birdcall. All the while, animations of cellular processes unfold on the dome above their heads. Needless to say, this was not your average science lecture.

On the Fault Line: Managing Tensions and Divisions Within Societies, a book co-edited by Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst, has received high praise from people such as Henry Kissinger and F. W. de Klerk in advance of its official launch March 1.

Douglas A. Hicks, Colgate’s next provost and dean of the faculty, enjoyed a warm welcome earlier this week when he visited campus for the first time since his appointment as the university’s top academic official. Though his start date is nearly five months away, unseasonably mild temperatures and blue skies made it seem as though […]

That was the headline on a Feb. 3 story in USA Today about Colgate’s faculty trip to India.

�������� President Jeffrey Herbst announced the selection of Douglas A. Hicks as provost and dean of the faculty, effective July 1, 2012. Hicks also will serve as professor of religion.