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The university’s signature Living Writers course brings 10 highly regarded authors to campus every year. The Colgate community is invited to attend their public readings in person or via the web at colgate.edu/livingwriters.

Last Friday, hundreds of first-year students gathered on the Academic Quad to watch a screening of Freedom on My Mind, a 1994 Academy Award-nominated documentary directed by Connie Field. The film was presented as part of a campuswide initiative called “Civil Rights: Then and Now.”

Shimon Peres, former prime minister of Israel, will deliver the next lecture in the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at Colgate on Saturday, October 25, 2014. Peres will address parents, students, alumni, and friends in Sanford Field House beginning at 6 p.m. His speech will be followed by an onstage interview with journalist Bob Woodruff […]

Two exhibitions of work by American art legends, Diane Arbus and Richard Serra, mark the first public Picker Art Gallery opening in the Dana Arts Center since staff closed the space in 2012 to embark on a major inventory of Colgate’s collection of 11,000 works of art. The exhibitions, which open at 5 p.m. Thursday […]

Giving back to the community often involves application of old-fashioned elbow grease, but sometimes it’s also a good game of kickball accompanied by a big smile and laughter. A new video captures a few moments during an August 21 day of service in Utica in which nearly 40 first-year students pitched in to help nonprofit […]

This post is by Jessica Rice ’16 As students are concluding their second full week of school, there are tons of events happening around campus. It’s going to be a busy week at Colgate with Homecoming Weekend around the corner, so here are some of the events you don’t want to miss.

Professors researching a wide array of subjects — from privacy software to fieldwork in the Galapagos — recently received National Science Foundation grant awards totaling $1,328,055.

Editor’s note: This report was co-authored by Hannah O’Malley ’17 and Kellyann Hayes ’16 Colgate has been participating in the nationwide conversation about race relations in response to the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American who was unarmed when he was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.