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Vice President Joe Biden to deliver Global Leaders lecture

Mark WaldenFebruary 13, 2017

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address the Colgate community on Friday, March 24, 2017. He will speak as part of the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at Colgate....

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Letting the good be the enemy

Mark WaldenDecember 6, 2016

Suppose, for a moment, that the Good Samaritan didn’t rescue just one person merely by chance. Let’s say that he spent his entire life walking up and down mount...

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Colgate students take selfie in front of Beijing skyline

Colgate earns top ranking for semester-long study-abroad participation

Mark WaldenDecember 2, 2016

Colgate students are taking lessons in the liberal arts outside the picturesque Chenango Valley — and in impressive numbers. The university has been ranked f...

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Socrates’ suicide, reenacted on the Ho Tung Visualization Lab’s domed screen.

Socrates returns to life in the Ho Tung Visualization Lab

Mark WaldenNovember 10, 2016

Some say that the death of a great philosopher in Colgate’s Ho Tung Visualization Lab on October 27 was a miscarriage of justice and a stain on Athenian democra...

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Vassar professor Nicholas Adams delivers lecture at podium in the Chapel House Sanctuary

Chapel House reopens after renovations

Mark WaldenNovember 9, 2016

Colgate’s Chapel House is at once an architectural novelty and a sanctuary. Beneath the flat roof, behind the 1950s abstracted formalism, you’ll see rare works ...

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Game on: Bruce Milligan ’73

Mark WaldenNovember 4, 2016

Bruce Milligan ’73, who began his career as a game designer, now creates computer simulations that save lives. ...

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President Brian W. Casey addresses a full Memorial Chapel during his inauguration ceremony.

Brian W. Casey inaugurated as the 17th president of Colgate University

Mark WaldenOctober 3, 2016

Within the historic precincts of Memorial Chapel, the Colgate University community looked forward to a bright and exciting future when it inaugurated Brian W. C...

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Flaherty Film Seminar participants sit outside and engage in conversation

Flaherty Film Seminar shapes Colgate classroom experience

Mark WaldenJuly 14, 2016

They came. They saw. They confabbed — on culture and identity politics, the ethical responsibilities of a documentarian, and the proper balance of race and ethn...

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Scott Brown named vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the College of Wooster

Mark WaldenMay 31, 2016

Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Scott Brown will take over as vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the College of Wooster Au...

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Glitter-adorned graduation cap that reads "The best is yet to come"

Colgate celebrates Commencement Weekend 2016

Mark WaldenMay 16, 2016

The Class of 2016 became Colgate University’s newest group of alumni last weekend. A series of special events and honored guests hailed the students' accomplish...

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Spotlight shines on great teaching at Colgate

Mark WaldenMay 9, 2016

Colgate students spend four years of their lives engaging daily with some of the world’s brightest, most enthusiastic scholars. Faculty are at the heart of the ...

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Illustration of Professor Peter Balakian and Bob Dylan in the background.

From the Colgate Scene: Poetry and memory with Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian

Mark WaldenApril 19, 2016

With a pair of new books out in 2015 — one a collection of his essays; the other, new poems — poet and English professor Peter Balakian unpacks, among other thi...

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Professor Peter Balakian teaches a class

Balakian wins Pulitzer Prize

Mark WaldenApril 18, 2016

Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities, professor of English, and director of creative writing at Colgate, has won the 201...

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Thought Into Action students gather on stage at Colgate's fifth Entrepreneur Weekend celebration

Colgate hosts fifth annual Entrepreneur Weekend

Mark WaldenApril 14, 2016

Thought Into Action students gather on stage at Colgate's fifth Entrepreneur Weekend celebration. (Photo by Gerard Gaskin) True grit is more than a classic ...

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Major League Baseball commissioner to deliver Class of 2016 commencement address

Mark WaldenMarch 24, 2016

Robert D. Manfred Jr. P’16, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, will deliver the commencement address at Colgate University’s 195th graduation ceremony o...

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