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Veins of neon green trace a path across a stark black background in a photo taken by Claire Kittock ’17 and Noor Anvery ’17, displaying a web of microscopic neurons within the brain of a genetically altered fruit fly. Kittock and Anvery captured the photo through a microscope while researching the cellular architecture of different […]

Students looking for a dynamic off-campus experience that also allows them to engage in scientific research will have more options in 2017, thanks to a new agreement between �������� and the National University of Singapore (NUS). After more than a year of exploration and development, representatives of Colgate and the NUS signed a memorandum […]

Colgate students have fanned out across the globe to apply their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. They are writing back to campus to keep our community posted on their progress. This article was written by Laynie Dratch ’17, a neuroscience major from Ambler, Pa., conducting research at the Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration […]

Name: Kalani Byrd Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif. Major/Minor: Peace & Conflict Studies/Psychology Campus activities: Research assistant for Professor Jennifer Tomlinson in the psychology department Student caller for the Office of the Annual Fund Student employee in the merchandising department of the Colgate Bookstore Member of Kappa Kappa Gamma with service on its philanthropy committee Vice president of […]

An exemplary student and a fierce advocate for LGBTQ awareness and promoting positive sexuality, Providence A. Ryan ’16, a biology and philosophy double major from Schenectady, N.Y., is the 2016 recipient of Colgate’s highest student honor, the 1819 Award. The 1819 Award is given annually to one student representing character, sportsmanship, scholarship, and service above […]

Editor’s note: Hannah Bercovici ’17, a geology major from Woodbridge, Conn., is the only undergraduate member of the science party aboard the research vessel Atlantis, currently cruising over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, somewhere around the 14th parallel north. Bercovici and her colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are hunting for seafloor basalt — “popping rocks” […]

When researching drugs to prescribe, medical professionals may be unknowingly influenced by selective publishing of clinical trial data — which makes some drugs appear more effective than they actually are. It’s a problem medical student Brian Chernak ’14 wanted to take on, so he began exploring how he could support better reporting of clinical trials. […]

Colgate’s Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute continues its mission of supporting innovative research with four new grants for 2016. The special funding is designed to help bring together Colgate faculty with outside researchers from around the world in an effort to open new areas of study, and to find creative ways to tackle existing problems.

Little fingers tapped away at computer keys after school at Hamilton Central School (HCS) on a recent sunny afternoon, but instead of manipulating blocks in Minecraft or posting to Facebook, they were busy writing computer code. The afternoon coding class for students in grades three through five is the creation of Colgate’s Women in Computer […]

With candidates knitting their brows, pouting, barking at hecklers, making sweeping hand gestures, and wearing high-heeled boots, the 2016 primary season is a true wild west show. “I’ve never seen an election quite like this one, where stage presence has meant so much,” said �������� Professor of Psychology Carrie Keating. “So what are the […]