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  • fancy basket
    The Longyear Museum of Anthropology will celebrate the opening of the exhibition Weaving Identities: Native American Baskets in the Longyear Museum Collection with a reception on Thursday, November 13, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The reception will feature a Q&A by 15 students who researched the baskets as a project for the course Native [鈥
    November 12, 2014
  • This Veterans Day, Colgate is paying tribute to the men and women of America鈥檚 armed forces. The university wants to thank alumni, parents, and current students who have served their country 鈥 and the numerous alumni who work on behalf of veterans, helping them transition back to civilian life.
    November 11, 2014
  • Ernie Vandeweghe '49
    Ernie Vandeweghe 鈥49, one of the Mount Rushmore figures of Colgate athletics and the school鈥檚 first All-America basketball player, died Saturday. He was 86. Vandeweghe was named to All-America squads in 1947, 1948 and 1949 after setting Colgate scoring records for a game (35), season (397) and career (1,404). He was MVP as a freshman [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • From Polynesian Awareness week, to a University Theater production, to a Battle of the Bands, there are a wide variety of things to do around campus this week. This week, the ALANA Cultural Center, Native American Studies Department, Office of Residential Life, and Hawai鈥檌 Club have teamed up to host Colgate鈥檚 first Polynesian Awareness Week. [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • Soldier and Child, Soldier and Child at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. (Photo by Andr茅 Simonyi)
    Nancy Ries, professor of anthropology and peace and conflict studies, recently curated a collection of short essays in a series titled 鈥淯kraine and Russia: The Agency of War鈥 for Cultural Anthropology, the top journal in the field. The journal鈥檚 editors-in-chief invited Ries to edit this collection of essays that appeared in the journal鈥檚 鈥淗ot Spots鈥 [鈥
    November 10, 2014
  • This is an artist鈥檚 impression of the triple star system GG Tau A
    An international collaboration of astronomers that includes Jeff Bary, Colgate associate professor of physics and astronomy, has published an article about the discovery of a 鈥減lanet-forming lifeline鈥 in a nearby triple-star system in the journal Nature. Using the recently commissioned Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Atacama desert in Chile, the group, led [鈥
    November 5, 2014