When actor and director Ron Perlman cast Colgate鈥檚 hometown of Hamilton, N.Y., as the setting for his new movie, Pottersville, in January, Colgate film and media studies students were ready for internship opportunities in movie-making magic. The light-hearted comedy stars Michael Shannon and Judy Greer, and includes the acting talents of Michael Torpey 鈥02. The [鈥February 12, 2016
Colgate Associate Professor of Biology Catherine Cardel煤s was featured recently in a Nature.com article called 鈥淔ieldwork: Extreme research.鈥 Nature.com talks about the literal and metaphorical heights to which Cardel煤s must climb in order to pursue her investigations. According to the article, 鈥淸it] requires climbing up ropes while battling jungle heat and fending off biting insects. On each climb, she [鈥February 11, 2016
Ilyasah Al Shabazz, daughter of civil rights leader Malcolm X, spoke to a packed Love Auditorium in Olin Hall last Wednesday, wrapping up this year鈥檚 MLK Week celebration. Shabazz is a community organizer, educator, social activist, motivational speaker, and author. Her most well-known book, Growing Up X, is both a personal memoir and a tribute [鈥February 5, 2016
Last fall, 11 artists conducted experiments with the Colgate and Hamilton communities, posing philosophical questions that included: What is art? Machine Project is a Los Angeles鈥揵ased organization 鈥渢hat works with artists to develop new projects often involving performance or participation with the public,鈥 explained founder Mark Allen. Its troupe has traveled the world, performing in various [鈥February 4, 2016
Warm congratulations are making their way across campus in the wake of Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost Constance Harsh鈥檚 January 28 announcement of appointments for promotion and tenure. The appointments were approved by the Board of Trustees during their winter meeting and take effect on July 1 of this year. They include: Continuous [鈥February 1, 2016
It鈥檚 too early to suggest that NUTS! will be a seminal work in the career of documentary filmmaker Penny Lane, assistant professor of art and art history. But reviews pouring in from the Sundance Film Festival, where Lane recently premiered the story of goat testicle transplant pioneer Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, have roundly praised the [鈥January 28, 2016
From January 15 to 16, the sophomore class got to experience one of the many amazing opportunities Colgate has to offer students when it comes to figuring out what the heck all of us are going to do when we graduate. This weekend to remember was called SophoMORE Connections, during which tons of alumni traveled back [鈥January 27, 2016
When siblings Caroline 鈥19 and Jake Danehy 鈥16 set out to make the eco-friendly clothing line that would eventually become Fair Harbor, Caroline was still in high school, and the idea was firmly rooted in soil, not the sea. 鈥淲e had an initial idea called Three R Clothing. It stood for reuse, refresh, and revitalize. [鈥January 25, 2016