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News and Updates

  • Inspired by the sacrifices of war veterans, a group of 海角社区 sophomores has launched a letter-writing campaign aimed at spreading holiday cheer to local veterans. 鈥淭hey need to know that we care about them,鈥 said Clarissa Polk 鈥10, co-founder of 鈥楪ate Embrace. 鈥淲e鈥檙e asking the campus and central New York communities to embrace those [鈥
    December 10, 2007
  • Geology professor Connie Soja and 13 students in her Core Distinction course recently had a 鈥渨onderful conversation鈥 with the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, even though some 3,444 miles separated the participants. Soja鈥檚 students could see and interact with Randal Keynes, who spoke to them via a software program called Skype and whose image was [鈥
    December 5, 2007
  • Alumnus Mark Murphy, the man who led the Colgate football team as captain and went on to lead the athletics department as director, has been named president of one of the most storied franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. The team鈥檚 board of directors on Monday unanimously approved the appointment of Murphy, 52, [鈥
    December 4, 2007
  • Colgate offers about 20 semester-long off-campus study programs and up to six extended study courses each year that provide students a wide range of faculty-led experiences. Picking the right option, though, can be a daunting experience. That鈥檚 why nearly 50 seniors volunteered to attend a study abroad fair at the Coop earlier this month to [鈥
    November 28, 2007
  • While attending a cultural festival in Timbuktu, Laura Simocko 鈥09 lived in a two-story building made entirely of mud. The house didn鈥檛 have running water and bare light bulbs hung from the ceilings, but it did have a giant television and amped-up stereo system. She said it was just one of the quirky experiences she [鈥
    November 26, 2007
  • New York鈥檚 first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, visited Colgate Tuesday to learn about cooperative partnerships between local not-for-profit organizations and the university. The visit was arranged by the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an innovative local economic development organization that was recently recognized as a model for fostering town-gown relations in New York.
    November 14, 2007
  • A 鈥渂eautiful remembrance鈥 of the four teenagers killed in a car crash on Colgate鈥檚 campus seven years ago was dedicated Monday during a windswept ceremony on Oak Drive. Families of three of the victims and members of the campus community stood along the main entrance to the campus where Katherine Almeter, Emily Collins, Rachel Nargiso, [鈥
    November 13, 2007
  • John Seely Brown, the former chief scientist at Xerox who writes extensively about collective innovation and digital culture, says he grew up at Colgate. His father was a chemistry professor (1934 to 1968) and his mother a librarian, so Brown was on campus all the time, mostly feeding his interests in computers and astronomy.
    November 12, 2007
  • Once a week, a first-floor room in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology is transformed into a TV newsroom bristling with students working with the latest video technology. The seven students are writing, taping, and editing Gate Update, a show highlighting campus events. The group鈥檚 first show was posted on www.colgate.edu this [鈥
    November 1, 2007