Shujing Wang 鈥12 and Daniel Michev 鈥14 were both excited and nervous when presenting the results of their summer research projects to a classroom full of students last week.
When Simona Maicanescu took to the Brehmer Theater stage last weekend to perform Wallace Shawn鈥檚 The Fever, the connection between the work and the university was at first oblique. But her arresting performance of the 90-minute monologue on materialism, Marxism, and the inequitable distribution of wealth invited the kind of debate that takes place at [鈥
When Michael Watts talks about the human, societal, and resource costs of extracting oil in Africa, it鈥檚 impossible to ignore the connection between the fuel in one鈥檚 tank and violence in the Niger Delta. Watts, author of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, is professor and Class of [鈥
It鈥檚 hard to imagine the common earthworm as an 鈥渁lien invader,鈥 but those near Colgate are not native to North America, and it鈥檚 been found that they could be harmful to the environment.
As the impending United Nations deliberation on Palestinian statehood dominates media coverage around the world, one Colgate professor is uniquely positioned to analyze the issues that have led up to the vote, as well as the likely aftermath.
A new component of the university鈥檚 signature Living Writers course has created amazing opportunities for alumni and parents to connect with Colgate and with each other.
As a haunting soundtrack from one of his films played in the background, Professor John Knecht gave what might be his last gallery talk at Colgate in Clifford Gallery on Wednesday night. The Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of art & art history and film & media studies will retire at the end of this [鈥
Summer in Hamilton tends to be more dormant than the academic year, but tucked away in laboratories and library corners, Colgate students have been making life-changing discoveries as they assist professors with their research. Here鈥檚 a glimpse into a few of those pockets of campus:
As the debt-limit debate went into hyperdrive after news of a deal filtered out of the nation鈥檚 capital on Sunday night, Colgate economics professor Thomas Michl urged political leaders to tone down the demagoguery and focus on the real issue at hand: creating jobs.