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Five hundred feet above the ground. A street corner in Harlem. These are just two of the many places “Beyond Colgate” that ������Դ��s have been in recent weeks. The program, jointly funded by the university and Colgate alumni, enables ������Դ��s to apply classroom material to situations and locations beyond campus boundaries. Each semester, about a […]

Douglas A. Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty, announced the selection of Anja Chávez as director of university museums for ������Դ��, effective May 1. She will direct the Picker Art Gallery and Longyear Museum of Anthropology, as well as the university’s envisioned Center for Art and Culture.

Donald L. Berry, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion emeritus, who introduced one of the nation’s first college courses to explore the implications of the Holocaust for Jewish and Christian theology, passed away on Tuesday, January 15, at home in Hamilton, N.Y. He was 87 years old. Berry, who retired from the Colgate […]

Colgate ������Դ��s taking The Land of Israel extended study course visited historic Beit Guvrin, January 3. Students participated in an archaeological dig, toured the site, and took part in a study session about the Bar Kochba revolt. The group is led by Steven Kepnes, Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard professor in Jewish studies and […]

Students in extended study courses left for Israel and Egypt this week to further explore concepts developed in their classrooms during the fall semester at Colgate. Both courses, Living Egypt and The Land of Israel, focus on deep historical understanding of culture in the respective countries, and how the past has influenced where each nation […]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to Colgate for use over four years, to support a new program of Mellon Sophomore Residential Seminars. The initiative will create a series of courses — to be offered every year for a substantial number of sophomores — in which ������Դ��s will live and study […]

“Blue Rondo a la Turk” starts at the 6:40 mark Jazz aficionados around the world are mourning the death yesterday of composer, pianist, and bandleader Dave Brubeck. Just this fall, the ������Դ�� Orchestra joined the plethora of artists who have covered Brubeck’s work when the brass and percussion sections opened the October concert with […]

Memorial Chapel was standing-room-only Thursday evening for a reading and talk by Salman Rushdie, author of numerous novels including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children, which won the Booker Prize as well as the Best of the Booker Prize.

A video of a dying butterfly that has lost a wing. A three-dimensional gray backslash hung on the wall. Refigured images from the film Deep Throat. These artworks, currently on display as part of the Clifford Gallery exhibition External Original, may seem like dissimilar pieces, but curator Sarah Mattes ’06 sees a common thread.

Returning to campus earlier this month to install his exhibition titled Strong and Silent, artist and photographer Mark Robbins ’77 could see clearly how his artistic growth began at Colgate.