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Academics | Colgate University News - Part 2

Academics

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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Students in matching red Colgate Computer Science t-shirts at the conference

Colgate @ Grace Hopper 2016

Contributing WriterNovember 8, 2016

Six members of the Colgate University computer science department recently traveled to Houston, TX, to participate in the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women...

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The Engineering Club members prepare to launch their weather balloon.

Engineering Club touches the sky (and sea) with weather balloon

Emily Daniel ’18November 8, 2016

Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, a Styrofoam cooler filled with GPS equipment and GoPro cameras floats toward Nova Scotia. The cooler, with a popped balloon and...

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New research may change how world measures greenhouse gas emission

Daniel DeVriesNovember 7, 2016

It turns out that everyone may have been measuring carbon emissions incorrectly all along. But not in a good way. New research led by Colgate Assistant Profe...

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Reet Aus in the documentary Out of Fashion

Upcycler, fashion designer, and artist Reet Aus on campus

Meredith Dowling '17October 28, 2016

Over the next few days, environmentally conscious fashion trailblazer Reet Aus is visiting campus. She'll lead a handful of special events to highlight how she’...

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Dani Solomon, performing in One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars.

Dani Solomon ’13 explores the connection between theater and science

Emily Daniel ’18October 26, 2016

Real science fused with science fiction when Dani Solomon ’13 performed One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars. The 90-m...

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Three candidates for the 22nd Congressional District seat standing at podiums at the debate in the Memorial Chapel at Colgate University

Congressional debate brings national issues to Colgate

Daniel DeVriesOctober 21, 2016

National and state issues, ranging from gun control to refugee resettlement and the future of job creation in New York State, were front and center at a live de...

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Professor Rebecca Shiner featured in New York Magazine article on presidential temperament

Matt HamesOctober 17, 2016

When New York Magazine planned an article on presidential temperament, they went to psychology professor Rebecca Shiner, the editor of the Handbook of Temperame...

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Colgate and Time Warner Cable News partner for live congressional debate

Daniel DeVriesOctober 14, 2016

Colgate's historic Memorial Chapel will be the site of a live televised debate for the hotly-contested 22nd Congressional District seat, October 20, from 9 p.m....

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Sal Curasi ’15 , pictured here doing research in the field

Geography alumni: on the map

Emily Daniel ’18October 7, 2016

It’s relatively uncommon for alumni to publish their student theses in a professional journal, but even more so when it happens within the same department and i...

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Art, psychology, and the environment: Professor Turner explores the connection

Meredith Dowling '17October 5, 2016

Does seeing an image of plastic bags floating in the ocean influence people to be more environmentally friendly? That’s what Bob Turner, professor of economics ...

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Peter Balakian teaches an advanced writing class at Colgate.

Peter Balakian reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning text during Living Writers event

Matt HamesSeptember 30, 2016

Living Writers — one of Colgate’s most popular courses, both on campus and in the wider Colgate community — featured Pulitzer Prize-winning professor Peter Bala...

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Cultivating Community Leaders: From the Local to the Global

Rebecca DowningSeptember 29, 2016

In an ecosystem of leadership, one seeks justice, mercy, dignity, empathy, and beauty. One listens and shares, partners and serves, and immerses oneself in the ...

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Looking ahead to inauguration day and back at Colgate University’s history

Daniel DeVriesSeptember 28, 2016

This Friday, Colgate inaugurates Brian W. Casey as its 17th president. A full slate of special inauguration-week events kicked off yesterday with a panel discus...

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