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  • Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at Colgate, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at no charge through [鈥
    January 27, 2012
  • While alumni of the 1960s-1980s had the 鈥淛-term鈥 option to fill the break between fall and spring semesters, today鈥檚 enterprising students and faculty found an array of ways to keep sharp their minds and spirits. Here are a few examples: Colgate鈥檚 annual Day in the Life program matched 135 students with alumni for on-the-job training [鈥
    January 26, 2012
  • Beyonce, Aretha Franklin, and Colgate professor Michael Coyle. These three jazz aficionados were sought out to comment on the death of legendary soul singer Etta James, in stories that aired on CNN and dozens of local television stations nationwide.
    January 24, 2012
  • Technically Latin is a dead language, but that鈥檚 not how it feels when taught by William (Bill) Stull, associate professor of the classics. Stull recently was awarded the 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching by The American Philological Association (APA), which is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek [鈥
    January 17, 2012
  • In a recent post on the Reflections from India blog, an English professor described feeling marginally literate when attempting to read road signs. A religion scholar wondered what Hindus might make of [Auroville鈥檚] claim that religions divide the people of the world.
    January 11, 2012
  • (Note: this is a blog post from Jenna Reinbold, one of the 27 faculty members currently in India. You can follow their progress at the Reflections from India site. Click on 鈥渟ubscribe by e-mail鈥 to get news delivered daily) I have to admit that I have never been comfortable doing non-academic public writing. I have [鈥
    January 4, 2012
  • When a businessman in the village of Hamilton had a question about how best to gauge employees鈥 abilities, he turned to a Colgate faculty member for advice. That request has turned into an interesting collaborative project involving a student, a professor, and an innkeeper.
    January 3, 2012
  • In a bold move to further internationalize Colgate鈥檚 Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, 27 faculty members are traveling through India for two weeks. The academic expedition was initiated by faculty and is being funded in part by a $100,000 Mellon Foundation new-president鈥檚 grant awarded to President Jeffrey Herbst for his discretionary use. Faculty members will share [鈥
    December 30, 2011