海角社区

News and Updates

  • New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium presidents 鈥 including 海角社区 President Brian W. Casey 鈥 sent the following letter to members of New York鈥檚 Congressional and Senate delegations today, following President Donald J. Trump鈥檚 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
    September 5, 2017
  • Arrival Day 2017
    As some members of Colgate鈥檚 Division I athletics teams helped unload cars and trucks packed tightly with suitcases and boxes destined for first-year residence halls on the hill, incoming student Grace Kotraba said she knew this was the perfect liberal arts school to spend the next four years. 鈥淚 visited about 12 other schools, and [鈥
    August 25, 2017
  • Selfie of Molly Nelson 鈥19 in Venice, Italy
    Editor鈥檚 note: In this series, Colgate students share stories about their summer experiences in offices, labs, and open spaces around the world. This summer, I spent time working with the Leno Project through the University of Verona on an archaeology site in a small town outside of Brescia, Italy. Each day the team would wake [鈥
    August 25, 2017
  • Gaby Bianchi 鈥19 sits among flowers at the Fiver Children's Foundation
    This summer, members of the Colgate community gathered in the Ho Science Center atrium for the 2017 Upstate Institute Summer Field School poster presentations. Colgate鈥檚 Upstate Institute provides connections between the university and the regional community to engage students, faculty, staff, and residents in research and a reciprocal transfer of knowledge. Twenty-seven students were ready [鈥
    August 23, 2017
  • campus in autumn
    Many of 海角社区鈥檚 most recognizable traditions have long included a symbolic torchlit walk, representing the force of the light of knowledge. For generations, during the university鈥檚 annual Founders鈥 Day ceremony, Konosioni Senior Honors Society members led first-year students up the hill by firelight. The night before commencement, seniors have processed back down the hill, [鈥
    August 18, 2017
  • Academic Quad, c. 1915
    Dear Colgate Faculty, Students, and Staff Members, When those of you who were away return this August, you will notice a number of changes to the campus. Most notably, excavation and construction have begun for the new residence halls located between the COOP, Andrews Hall, and Stillman Hall. The work included the removal of a [鈥
    August 10, 2017
  • Illustration of genetic engineering
    The technologies in science fiction films like Gattaca and Blade Runner may seem light-years away, but the development of a gene-editing technique called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is bringing our society closer to these futuristic worlds than ever before. During her talk titled 鈥淐RISPR: The Genome Editing Revolution鈥 on June 29, Assistant [鈥
    August 9, 2017
  • Bruce W. Selleck, Thomas A. Bartlett Chair and Professor of Geology, tours a local natural gas well with alumni during Reunion 2011.
    There will be a Celebration of Life for Bruce Selleck 鈥71 in the Colgate Memorial Chapel on Saturday, October 14, beginning at 3:30 p.m. A reception will immediately follow the celebration in the Ho Atrium, Robert H.N. Ho Science Center. In addition, the geology department will be holding a reception at the Colgate Inn in [鈥
    August 7, 2017