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  Colgate students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Malin Lilley ’15 at Dolphins Plus. This summer, I am an animal care and training intern at Dolphins Plus, a research and education facility in Key Largo, Fla., that offers dolphin […]

Colgate students are sharing their experiences conducting research with faculty members on campus and in the field. This post is by Emily Rundlet ’14, a biochemistry major from Watchung, N.J. This summer I have been working in the chemistry department with Professor Roger Rowlett in determining the 3-D structure of two different enzymatic proteins using […]

Digistar Users Group members from around the world are now gathered at Colgate’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab for their 26th annual conference. Hamilton, N.Y., joins sites in Germany, Japan, Canada, India, and the Netherlands as a conference host for users of the Digistar projection system, the technological heart of Colgate’s unique visualization lab.

Summer certainly means pool parties, lazy afternoons, and hot dogs on the grill. At Colgate, summer also means time for some serious research. A sampling of about 150 students conducting summer research on campus presented their findings at the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center last week. The research on display spanned a wide range of […]

Colgate geology professor Connie Soja has led field expeditions to Alaska’s North Pacific coast, the Australian outback, and Mongolia’s Gobi Desert that have yielded new insights into novel ecologic relationships in ancient reefs and how past environmental transformations help predict global change in reef communities today. In recognition of her work, Soja, a member of […]

Colgate students, interning this summer at companies such as NBCUniversal, Hukkster, Nike, and Facebook, are sharing their experiences. This post is written by Rohan Mehta ’14, an intern at Facebook. I’m a rising senior at Colgate, and this summer I’m working as a software engineering intern at Facebook at their headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. […]

Professor Geoff Holm and Amanda Anafu ’14 just received word that their manuscript was accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. “This is a major accomplishment for an undergraduate,” said Holm.

For an article titled “The Evolution of Hand Gestures: Why Do Some Die Out and Others Endure?”, The Atlantic magazine contacted Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology, for his expertise on hand gestures. The article examined two kinds of hand gestures. The first are “co-speech gestures”, unconscious ways we move our hands as we talk. Professor […]

Two interdisciplinary science research projects featuring collaborations among diverse faculty from Colgate and around the world will move forward with grants from the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate. The projects support the core mission of the institute, which aims to foster the creation of new knowledge that is obtainable only through the development of sustained interdisciplinary […]

Watch Colgate students Sebastian Sagramoso Haley ’15, Fareeza Islam ’14, Hugo Fausto Torres-Fetsco ’15, Sara DiMassimo ’14, and Saliha Moore ’14, put up drywall, spackle, paint, sand, and decorate an old barn, transforming it into a center of  discovery at a local day-care center in this short video documentary by Torres-Fetsco. The students, as part […]