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For the fifth consecutive year, the prestigious Robert Flaherty Film Seminar will come to Colgate, offering insightful discussions and free public film screenings in the Hamilton Theater. Presented in honor of Robert Flaherty (1884-1951), creator of classic films including Nanook of the North, Man of Aran, and Louisiana Story, the seminar highlights innovative cinematic works.

Colgate’s Elise DeRoo ’12 was one of two Patriot League student-athletes to be nominated for the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. DeRoo’s nomination was based on her service, leadership, athletics and academics.

English professor Margaret Maurer has nurtured a love of literature in thousands of Colgate undergraduates and has cultivated that love through book club sessions she leads each summer for alumnae.

The annual Colgate Writers’ Conference returns to campus from June 17– 23, and that brings many opportunities to listen in and engage with professional writers as well as those who are learning the craft. 

Photographs by professors Tom Balonek and Roger Rowlett provide a Colgate vantage point of an event that won’t occur again for more than 100 years, the transit of Venus.

In his latest book, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War (Yale University Press), Colgate professor R.M. (Ray) Douglas examines “one of the most significant examples of the mass violation of human rights in recent history.” His related essay appears in the Review section of today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.

During April Visit Days in 2009, Vic Krivitski ’12 decided that Colgate needed a laugh. So, drawing on his skills as an avid climber, the 240-pound rugby lock took an unusual route from the fourth floor of West Hall to the Quad: he rappelled out the window, smiling and waving as he went.

For Colgate student Maggie Dunne ’13, one good deed yields another — and another — and another. As winner of the 2012 grand prize in Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women Competition, she received $20,000 for the work she has accomplished through her nonprofit Lakota Pine Ridge Children’s Enrichment Project. At the ceremony, she announced […]