海角社区

  • Colgate was recently awarded seven highly competitive grants totaling more than $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), allowing the university to enhance faculty-student research opportunities as well as expand on-campus summer programs for K-12 teachers and college instructors. An NSF grant will fund associate professor [鈥
    September 23, 2009
  • In addition to the usual classroom setting, the English Department鈥檚 Living Writers course will live online this semester, providing anyone with a passion for literature the opportunity to interact with some of today鈥檚 top contemporary authors. Ten writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout, Junot Diaz, and Jeffrey Eugenides, will visit campus, providing the 55 [鈥
    September 22, 2009
  • Under glorious blue skies, members of the campus and local communities filled the Hamilton Village Green Saturday afternoon for a multicultural festival that capped Colgate鈥檚 Diversity Week. Events held during the past few days included intellectual discussions, workshops, lectures, and other cultural activities intended to foster dialogue and build a more inclusive community at Colgate [鈥
    September 21, 2009
  • Michael Steele shared personal and powerful anecdotes Thursday about his life as a 鈥渂lack kid living in Washington, D.C.,鈥 and the journey that took him first to the Maryland Statehouse and then to the national stage as chairman of the Republican Party. Steele delivered his lecture, 鈥淯nity and Diversity: Common Ground in the 21st Century,鈥 [鈥
    September 18, 2009
  • Having recently been accepted into Harvard Business School鈥檚 2+2 program, Michael LoFaso 鈥10 is anticipating his future while enjoying life as a Colgate senior. HBS 2+2 is a selective program intended for students without a formal business background.
    September 15, 2009
  • Colgate鈥檚 efforts to turn quick-growing willow into fuel for the university鈥檚 wood-burning plant were highlighted in yesterday鈥檚 edition of The Post-Standard (Syracuse). 鈥淭his is one of those things that is environmentally and financially beneficial for the university,鈥 John Pumilio, sustainability coordinator, told the newspaper.
    September 14, 2009
  • With the theme of 鈥淩ace and Culture in the 21st Century,鈥 海角社区 Diversity Week, Sept. 15-19, will feature intellectual discussions, lectures, and cultural activities on campus as well as in the village of Hamilton, where a community festival will cap off the series of events. 鈥淭he goal of the inaugural Diversity Week is to [鈥
    September 11, 2009
  • Gina Manziello 鈥02 (right), who studied theater, voice, and psychology at Colgate before earning a master鈥檚 in acting at USC, is starring this weekend in Frida, an opera about the life of the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The production at the Carrier Theater in Syracuse, N.Y., opens the 38th season of the Society for [鈥
    September 10, 2009