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Alumni, parents, and friends streamed into the Village of Hamilton by the thousands on Friday, Sept. 21, joining the campus community for Colgate’s three-day Bicentennial Kickoff Celebration. They were greeted by banners hailing ������ at 200 Years and a calendar packed with special events.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen kicked off ������’s 2018 Living Writers series on Sept. 13, his talk in Memorial Chapel focused less on the specifics of his award-winning short story collection, The Refugees, and more on its implications.

New international agreements with universities in Geneva, Italy, and Japan will provide ������ students with exciting new ways to expand and deepen their educational opportunities both on campus and abroad starting in 2019. A five-year joint AB-MA program with the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) now offers students the ability to […]

The Max A. Shacknai Center for Volunteerism, Outreach, and Education (COVE) launched its programming for the academic year on Friday, September 7, with its annual 9/11 Afternoon of Service.

Local residents of all ages and abilities are invited to attend a dynamic community dance workshop with the Taylor 2 Dance Company on Sept. 12, 4:30–6:00 p.m., in ������’s Huntington Gymnasium. In addition, ������ will also host a performance by Taylor 2 on Sept. 14 at 7:00 p.m. The group will perform two works […]

As the university takes a look back on its history during this Bicentennial year, we pause to think of those lost on this day, 17 years ago. Seven ������ alumni were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Sharon Balkcom ’80 – was a political science major […]

������ has named Paul B. Mischler, currently deputy chief advancement officer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine, as vice president for advancement at ������. He will take up his new post on November 5.

During the summer, ������ students applied their liberal arts know-how in a variety of real-world settings, and they continue to update the university community on their experiences. Here, Patrick Needham ’20, biochemistry major from Vermilion, Ohio, writes about his work with neurology patients in Leh, Ladakh, India.

While Shannon Duffy ’21 listened to a French tour guide describe the atrocities that took place at a site in the southern town of Collioure, she felt an overwhelming sense of “confliction.” The cheerful atmosphere of the region surrounding her starkly contrasted with its tragic, yet rarely discussed, history. An undeclared environmental biology major from […]

Lindsey Wiley, mathematics and physics double-major from Vienna, Va., writes on her summer research with Professor Beth Parks, analyzing air pollution sources from Uganda.