By 2022, it is projected that New York State will have a shortage of 10,000 teachers. To help address the deficit, two 海角社区 professors have been tasked with building and enhancing the high school physics teacher education program.
During the summer, Colgate students are applying their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings. Microbiology major Rebecca Gowen 鈥19, from Philadelphia, Pa., describes her summer research, conducted through the Beckman Scholars Program.
Colgate鈥檚 2019 Alumni of Color scholar in residence, Dianne Stewart 鈥90, associate professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, visited classrooms and delivered two public lectures as part of her two-week residency on campus last semester.
Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities and professor of English, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching.
When Elizabeth Gonzales 鈥19, a Chinese and international relations major from Dallas, Texas, talks about traveling to Shanghai, China, she can barely suppress her energy. Her passion for Chinese culture and language spills into the conversation as she describes her four trips to East Asia. Through an extended study program to Beijing in Spring 2016 [鈥
Lacey Williams 鈥16 has added some teeth to her CV. The alumna recently co-published a paper, titled 鈥淒isappearance of white sharks leads to the novel emergence of an allopatric apex predator, the sevengill shark,鈥 in Nature鈥檚 Scientific Reports.
Looking back, I can see an interesting connection between my current life in the Windy City, three months in Sin City, and four years in Hamilton, N.Y.: a propensity for intellectual omnivorism.