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What do a 20-something Colgate student and a 70-something area resident have in common? More than you might think, it turns out. Twelve seniors taking the Sociology of Age, Aging, and the Lifecourse class were paired with an elder and tasked with creating a digital story about that person.

The name of Stephen Burke, Class of 1980, continues to pop up in the national media as Comcast’s purchase of NBC Universal continues to be dissected and analyzed. Burke is chief operating officer of Comcast, which is the United States’ largest cable operator, the nation’s largest Internet service provider, and the third-largest phone company.

As the passionate debate surrounding health care reform reaches a fever pitch on Capitol Hill, countless pundits and politicians on both sides of the issue are crowding the airwaves with their opinions. Now, Colgate students are weighing in, thanks to a unique podcast project — “The Health Care Reform Debate: Undergraduate Voices” — that is […]

When Courtney Walsh ’10 sat down to dinner at Circa restaurant in Cazenovia, there was a good chance that she had seen the vegetables on her plate before. The dinner, hosted by Chris Henke, professor of sociology and anthropology, was the culmination of the semester’s work in his core distinction class, simply called Food.

Geology professor Connie Soja spent a month coping with howling hot winds and 100-degree temperatures in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia as her research team examined rocks dating back more than 400 million years. Soja and her colleagues were hunting for clues to a tectonic puzzle: Where was that portion of southern Mongolia actually located that many million […]

Internationally recognized artist Eduardo Kac is known for pushing boundaries, employing biotechnology and genetics to create works that challenge definition and sometimes spark controversy. His recent visit to Colgate marked an experiment of sorts for campus, as the discussion it spurred crossed several disciplines and involved faculty members and students who might not ordinarily find […]

Going green may sound like a good idea, but with a physicist, a biologist, and an economist all teaching courses about the environment this semester — and a host of students eager to take action against climate change — why not gather the data to prove it? So in classrooms, labs, and residence halls, students […]

For the past seven years Colgate professor Susan Cerasano has been working on a project that aims to create the world’s most important digital archive on early modern English theater. The first stage of this major scholarly endeavor is complete and now available.