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After working at a Manhattan consulting firm last summer, Emily Kennedy ’11 has traded the hustle and bustle of city life for an opportunity to hone her research skills during the quieter months on campus. “The change is fantastic,” said Kennedy, who is assisting geology professor Connie Soja this summer with the completion of a […]

Nonprofit directors and members of municipal agencies spoke Thursday about how Colgate’s Upstate Institute has made significant, long-lasting contributions that have benefited their groups and the upstate region. The institute is a powerful focal point for resources at a time when many groups are squeezed by funding cutbacks, said Patricia Hoffman, executive director of the […]

Gary Eichhorn ’75 is no stranger to corporate boardrooms, having worked, very successfully, in the technology and medical devices field for more than 30 years. But it is his visits to music “clubhouses” these days that really fuel his passion. Eichhorn is executive director of the Music and Youth Initiative, a nonprofit organization he and […]

Hamilton will be abuzz with award-winning filmmakers and stars when the Hamilton International Film Festival returns to the village from Aug 5-8. Filmmakers will host discussions, several major features and short fiction films will be screened, and closing night will bring red-carpet arrivals and a dance party to the Palace Theater.

“It’s hot and humid out there today,” geology professor Connie Soja told a classroom full of students this July. “It feels like the Mesozoic out there.” In the absence of Colgate students, who are mostly off campus for the summer, Soja was presenting to students of a different ilk as she addressed the second- and […]

A new webcam offers a look at the new Colgate fitness center that is getting in shape and bulking up at the construction site next to Huntington Gym. The state-of-the-art facility adjacent to the gymnasium, in front of Lineberry Natatorium, is slated to open in January 2011.

Disabilities, global warming, and genocide are not easy subjects to broach with children. But when kids can become enamored with an adorable animal who serves as an ambassador for these weighty topics, it’s a conversation starter. This is the approach that Craig Hatkoff ’76 has taken with the Turtle Pond Collection, nonfiction animal stories that […]

Inside a Ho Science Center physics lab, student-researcher Amanda Zranchev ’12 is taking on the role of inventor this summer as she conducts experiments on a plywood structure that resembles a closet on wheels. “What we are doing in this lab will hopefully be valuable to homeowners one day,” said Beth Parks, associate professor of […]