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  • Spend three weeks in Japan as part of a Colgate extended study course that provides you with access and interactions that no tourist could begin to imagine. Check. Fly home to Utah, spend one jet-lagged day asleep, and then drive to Colgate, passing through the flooded cities of Iowa on the way. Check.
    July 9, 2008
  • Not too many people need to know how to say 鈥榩ole vault鈥 in German. But Alisandra Denton 鈥10, a molecular biology major and pole-vaulter, might find the word Stabhochsprung useful this summer as she pursues a unique internship. In the city of Mainz, Germany, Denton is gaining research experience as well as strengthening her language [鈥
    July 7, 2008
  • Colgate President Rebecca Chopp and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs have announced the appointment of Dr. Keenan Grenell as the university鈥檚 Vice President and Dean of Diversity. The following is drawn from the message shared with the Colgate community. Grenell comes to Colgate from Marquette University, where he served as Associate Provost for Diversity [鈥
    July 2, 2008
  • art = surprising + inevitable. Written in blue crayon, this short equation 鈥 scribbled by an attendee of the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 鈥 joined other drawings and notes on the walls of an informal lounge set up in Clifford Gallery on the Colgate campus. The seminar attracted artists and scholars from around the [鈥
    June 30, 2008
  • If ever there were a poster child for upstate New York, Kevin McAvey 鈥05 would be it. Like so many of his Colgate friends, McAvey left the area after graduation, but, he says, his 鈥渉eart stayed in the upstate New York region.鈥 鈥淭here鈥檚 still not a day I don鈥檛 cross that border into upstate that [鈥
    June 24, 2008
  • A Colgate alumnus received a Tony Award for a unique three-level stage set he designed for the hugely successful play, August: Osage County. Todd A. Rosenthal 鈥89 won for best set design, one of several awards the play earned during Sunday night鈥檚 awards show. Rosenthal earned a degree from Yale School of Drama in New [鈥
    June 20, 2008
  • A cultural cornucopia is available for members of the campus and local communities as authors, filmmakers, and musicians from around the world will visit Colgate in the coming days. The university is hosting two longtime events 鈥 the Colgate Writers鈥 Conference and the Chenango Summer MusicFest 鈥 and, for the first time, the Robert Flaherty [鈥
    June 17, 2008
  • Alumna Chi Chi Obichere-Roxo鈥檚 interest in international development 鈥 sparked by a Colgate extended study course and a Watson fellowship 鈥 can be seen through her work involving refugees in Kenya, religious leaders in Nigeria, and a host of others around the world. Obichere-Roxo 鈥00 is a program officer with Management Sciences for Health, a [鈥
    June 16, 2008