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More than 900 parents and family members journeyed to Hamilton last Friday through Sunday to spend Family Weekend with their undergraduates. The university’s red-carpet welcome included a full schedule of classes, performances, athletic events, and departmental receptions.

Adam Weinberg, a popular professor and administrator at Colgate for more than a decade, will become president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Weinberg taught sociology and served as vice president and dean of the college until 2005, when he left to become executive vice president of World Learning and provost of the organization’s accredited higher […]

Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst sat down with George Reid Andrews, distinguished professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Pittsburgh, for another conversation from the World Affairs With Jeffrey Herbst series. Professor Andrews is the preeminent authority on the African diaspora in Latin America, from slavery and emancipation, to race relations in […]

President Jeffrey Herbst reached out via e-mail to parents and alumni yesterday, updating them on Colgate’s status after Hurricane Sandy and expressing concern for those who felt the brunt of the storm. President Herbst’s message to alumni: As Hurricane Sandy dissipates, we watch with disbelief the massive fallout that is still being felt throughout the […]

To say that Evan Chartier ’14 is a nontraditional student is an understatement. After graduating from high school in Oak Park, Ill., and before coming to Colgate, Chartier spent two years serving in the Israeli army and then traveled throughout Africa. Currently the co-president of Colgate’s Jewish Student Union, Chartier explained that he joined the […]

Colgate remains closed and classes cancelled today. Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology and academic buildings will reopen by 11 a.m. to provide students with study areas. The Trudy Fitness Center also is open today until 6 p.m. Classes and full schedules will resume Wednesday.

Lumberjacks beware. Thanks to the entrepreneurial efforts of two seniors, Ryan Smith ’13 and Brendan Karson ’13, printer paper at Case Library, along with more than two dozen other departments on campus, is no longer a product of trees or recycled paper. It is composed of recovered sugarcane fiber which would have otherwise ended up […]

When Jake Lightman ’16 attended a lunchtime talk with Daniel Kurtzer, former ambassador to both Israel and Egypt, he wanted to know why the Middle East peace process has stalled, and why the Arabs seem to suffer the blame. “So I asked him,” Lightman said without a touch of irony. Such a thing is de […]