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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.

Not too many people need to know how to say ‘pole vault’ in German. But Alisandra Denton ’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 […]

Colgate President Rebecca Chopp and Dean of the Faculty Lyle Roelofs have announced the appointment of Dr. Keenan Grenell as the university’s 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 […]

art = surprising + inevitable. Written in blue crayon, this short equation — scribbled by an attendee of the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar — 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 […]

If ever there were a poster child for upstate New York, Kevin McAvey ’05 would be it. Like so many of his Colgate friends, McAvey left the area after graduation, but, he says, his “heart stayed in the upstate New York region.” “There’s still not a day I don’t cross that border into upstate that […]

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 ’89 won for best set design, one of several awards the play earned during Sunday night’s awards show. Rosenthal earned a degree from Yale School of Drama in New […]

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 — the Colgate Writers’ Conference and the Chenango Summer MusicFest — and, for the first time, the Robert Flaherty […]

Alumna Chi Chi Obichere-Roxo’s interest in international development – sparked by a Colgate extended study course and a Watson fellowship – can be seen through her work involving refugees in Kenya, religious leaders in Nigeria, and a host of others around the world. Obichere-Roxo ’00 is a program officer with Management Sciences for Health, a […]