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In the past week, �������� faculty answered the call to journalists who sought out qualified experts. As 2012 approaches, journalists are calling on Professor Anthony Aveni for his insights into the Mayan calendar. Bookshelves and movie theaters are full of prophecies, theories, and predictions that this date marks the end of the world, or […]

Last spring, while teaching in Bryansk, Russia, on a Fulbright grant, Colgate political science professor Dan Epstein noticed a change in the mood of the people since the last time he visited.

In the last month, �������� faculty answered the call to journalists who required qualified experts. The NPR podcast Planet Money asked the question, “Why Does A Taxi Medallion Cost $1 Million?”. For the answer, they turned to Graham Hodges.

Jessica Graybill, assistant professor of geography, needed to look no farther than Utica, N.Y., for students in her Urban Transformations seminar to experience the cultural, spatial, and environmental changes brought about by refugee migration. The city’s leaders openly welcome international newcomers — most recently from Bosnia, Belarus, and Vietnam — as a strategy for economic […]

Kevin M. Carlsmith, a highly regarded Colgate professor and researcher who battled cancer for the past three years, died Nov. 19 in his boyhood home in California surrounded by members of his family. He was 44.

David K. Lewis, a chemistry professor at Colgate for more than 25 years who now teaches at Connecticut College, has been awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution.

Colgate professor Anthony Aveni has been selected as a judge for the YouTube Space Lab, a global science competition and ongoing education program.

Charlie Holbrow, who taught at Colgate for 36 years and is the Charles A. Dana Professor of physics, emeritus, has been awarded the 2012 Oersted Medal for his major contributions to physics education and research.

What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.

As an economist, Takao Kato studies unintended consequences of public policy decisions. As a professor at Colgate with many international students in his classes, he considers their prospects for gainful employment in the United States. That connection inspired a research project he conducted with Chad Sparber, assistant professor of economics.