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Three Colgate biology professors — Damhnait McHugh, Krista Ingram, and Catherine Cardelús — were awarded more than $750,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation for three distinct projects that will involve student researchers.

(Editor’s Note: This story was written by Kiki Koroshetz ’11 On a cold and rainy September afternoon, Geology 215 students met with Professor Constance Soja for the second lab of the semester. On this particular Thursday, they gathered under Andy Kerr Stadium, in the visiting team locker room.

Psychology professor Kevin Carlsmith has been awarded a one-year fellowship at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Carlsmith hopes the collaboration with other top scholars at the center will provide valuable insights into his research that focuses on attitudes about torture and aggressive interrogation techniques.

As the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, Colgate professor Peter Balakian, a prize winning and internationally distinguished writer whose work has been translated into many languages, explores the aftermath of 9/11 in his new book of poems, Ziggurat (University of Chicago Press). Balakian will also appear on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Sept. […]

Wes Testo ’12 has won a prestigious award from the Botanical Society of America for his research of a rare species of fern protected under the Endangered Species Act. Testo presented a poster at the society’s annual conference held recently in Providence, RI. Also presenting a poster about fern research was Michael Britton ’12. Both […]

After working at a Manhattan consulting firm last summer, Emily Kennedy ’11 has traded the hustle and bustle of city life for an opportunity to hone her research skills during the quieter months on campus. “The change is fantastic,” said Kennedy, who is assisting geology professor Connie Soja this summer with the completion of a […]

Inside a Ho Science Center physics lab, student-researcher Amanda Zranchev ’12 is taking on the role of inventor this summer as she conducts experiments on a plywood structure that resembles a closet on wheels. “What we are doing in this lab will hopefully be valuable to homeowners one day,” said Beth Parks, associate professor of […]

Thursday was day one on the job and Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst “moved forward boldly and aggressively,” just as he said the university will do during his term. He began by delivering the closing remarks to the alumni and parent participants in the university’s first Summer on the Hill  program, which exemplified two of his […]

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by Kate Preziosi ’10) Two dramatically different exhibitions in the Picker Art Gallery each deal with the common theme of challenging conventional stereotypes. In Of Someone and Something, associate art and art history professor Linn Underhill displays selections from seven major photographic series that she has created since the […]

In an opinion article featured this week on Foreign Policy magazine’s website, peace and conflict studies professor Daniel Monk and postdoctoral fellow Daniel Levine offer their perspectives on the Middle East peace process. Monk and Levine argue that the US debates surrounding Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking are based upon outdated understandings of domestic Israeli politics.