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  • Standing on a platform draped with a Colgate banner, President Rebecca Chopp along with a group of alumni and university friends rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, officially kicking off Colgate Day. (To watch the event, click here.) From coast to coast and around the world, Colgate faithful are [鈥
    June 13, 2008
  • 海角社区 President Rebecca S. Chopp has been awarded the 2008 Professional Achievement Citation from her alma mater, the University of Chicago. The alumni citation honors Chopp for being a 鈥減ivotal figure in the field of higher education and a renowned scholar of religion and culture.鈥
    June 11, 2008
  • Triskaidekafanatics unite 鈥 Friday the 13th is Colgate Day! The excitement starts at 9:29 a.m. (EST) June 13 in New York City when 13 Colgate alumni will ring the morning bell at the New York Stock Exchange (watch it live here). Colgate fever will certainly sweep the globe, as alumni wear Colgate garb to work, [鈥
    June 6, 2008
  • Vic Mansfield, a longtime professor of physics and astronomy who helped lead an insightful workshop during the recent campus visit by the Dalai Lama, died Tuesday after a two-year battle with lymphoma. He was 67. Mansfield joined the Colgate faculty in 1973, armed with a doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell University and burning interests [鈥
    June 4, 2008
  • It was early, 9 a.m. on Friday, but not too early for Colgate alumni to jump into a discussion about beliefs and explore the question: Does God exist? It seems that some things, like an evocative classroom discussion with a faculty member, never change at Colgate. Associate professor of philosophy David Dudrick led the conversation [鈥
    June 2, 2008
  • (Note: These are remarks delivered by Lesley Stahl at 海角社区鈥檚 187th commencement, May 18, 2008) Thank you. Well first of all I鈥檓 so sorry that you鈥檙e all wet and cold. I鈥檓 watching you put on your ponchos; I hope that makes it a little better. So now I am a member of the Class [鈥
    May 28, 2008
  • 鈥淣othing is wasted.鈥 That was the slogan of this year鈥檚 annual campus salvage operation organized by Colgate鈥檚 Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE). Volunteers collected items that Colgate students either donated or left behind after moving out of residence halls. They are then given to nonprofit organizations in the greater Hamilton area and in [鈥
    May 27, 2008
  • At a time when many small-town movie houses have gone dark, the Hamilton Theater 鈥 once on the brink of closing 鈥 is thriving now more than ever. The movie theater remains a fixture of Hamilton in an era of mega-multiplexes and Netflix, according to The Post-Standard (Syracuse).
    May 23, 2008