Academics | Picker Art Gallery, Dana Arts Center, 2nd floor
A Thought Is A Thread: Contemporary Artists Reworking Textile TraditionsMetaphors using the language of textiles are part of everyday idiomatic English: we follow threads on social media; storytellers weave tales or spin fantastic yarns; friend groups might be close-knit and and we might tie ourselves in knots trying to navigate complex situations. The history of textiles is intimately tied to the development of human societies. Weaving is at the same time one of the earliest human technological advancements, the foundation upon which modern industrial nations were built, and the basis for the computing revolution.A Thought Is A Thread brings together works by leading artists who investigate what textiles can still reveal about people and their relationships to each other, to themselves, and to language, land, and the future. Artworks by Faig Ahmed, Sanford Biggers, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Suzanne Husky, Joy Ray, and Jordan Nassar present intertwining narratives that both cherish and complicate the web of meanings that emerge when traditional textile arts are given contemporary expression.Debuting at our opening, Picker Art Gallery welcomes members of the Colgate community to partake in Yarnival, a collaborative art experience. Yarnival will be on view and available for participation during the exhibition run of A Thought is a Thread, through May 18, 2025, in the upper atrium of the Dana Arts Center. Please stay tuned to our social media channels and website for more details on how to participate.A Thought Is A Thread is partially supported by funding from The Friends of Picker Art Gallery.

Academics | Persson Hall, 27 Auditorium- Ground Floor
Apr. 17th- 12-1pm in 27 Persson AuditoriumErik Lillethun (ECON)Assistant Professor of EconomicsTitle: Designing Information to Foster Evolution Toward CooperationDescription: Concealing and obfuscating information has a bad reputation as being harmful to information recipients. However, it has been proven to be potentially beneficial in many settings. In this talk, I will demonstrate that information may be manipulated to promote evolution toward more cooperative behavior in strategic settings (i.e., games). Of particular interest are games such as the famous Stag Hunt, where there is a conflict between a personally risky but prosocial choice and a safe choice. Past research has shown that evolutionary learning dynamics tend to lead to the safe choice over time. However, I show that if a benevolent designer controls the information that players have about other people's choices, those same evolutionary learning dynamics lead to the prosocial outcome. Surprisingly, it does so by making the prosocial behavior look like the safe behavior. This makes players less certain that others are actually making the safe choice, even when it appears so. I will also discuss the implications of these results for social media platforms.

Academics | Lawrence Hall, 105
Brianna Botello (Spanish) – Sabatian Women: Literary Worlds as a Metaphor for Violence in the Argentina DictatorshipBailey Cooper (Spanish) – The Effects of Direct Articulatory Instruction on Spanish Pronunciation Across Diverse Speaker GroupsEthan Hamlin (French) – The Authenticity of the Artifice: Reflections on Sartre’s Les MotsEmma Herwig (French) – Femme: An Original Stage Play Exploring Grief, Family, and DaughterhoodKatie Maratea (French) – Finding Oneself: Alienation and Belonging in School Environments in French and Francophone Literature of the Twentieth CenturyShanely Perez (Spanish) – Sticky Rituals: Affect, Performance, and Emotional Geographies in Rita Indiana’s La mucamaAll presentations will be in English

Academics | Persson Hall, Auditorium
Join us in honoring exceptional students and community members who have made notable contributions on campus. Vice Provost for Administration and Planning Trish St. Leger will open the ceremony by speaking about how she has seen sustainability at Colgate grow in the past years.The Office of Sustainability bestows Oak Awards to students, staff, faculty, and teams whose contributions have advanced sustainability on campus. Oak Award Nominations can be made through April 11. Submit your nominations here.The Environmental Studies (ENST) Awards celebrate declared ENST students who have made contributions in the topics of research, community service, and justice.Vegetarian hors d'oeuvres will be served prior to the ceremony. Please bring your own reusable water bottle.The awards ceremony is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day.

Academics | Lathrop Hall, 207
The Department of English and Creative Writing invites you to readings by our two Olive B. O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing.Ciara Alfaro is a Chicana writer from Lubbock, Texas. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, swamp pink, Passages North, Southeast Review, Witness, and more. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and her BA from Colgate University. Kanak Kapur is a writer originally from Mumbai. She received her MFA in creative writing from Vanderbilt University, where she was also a Robert Penn Warren fellow. Her work has previously appeared in The New Yorker, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

Academics | Case-Geyer Library
National Poetry Month, launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, is an annual celebration in April that aims to highlight the importance of poetry and poets in American culture, encouraging people to read, write, and share poetry.The University Libraries, in collaboration with The Upstate Institute and the Adirondack Center for Writing, will be circulating a poetry machine throughout the Village of Hamilton in April.Pay attention the next time you’re at Case-Geyer, Flour & Salt, MOMs, or the Hamilton Public Library. You might encounter the ACW’s Poetry Machine.The Poetry Machine is an old capsule machine, the kind you might spend two quarters to get a bouncy ball, sticky hand, or small plastic alien from in the vestibule of a convenience store. With our machine, you can get your very own poem (for free—no quarters necessary).Inside the Poetry Machine are 10 different poems. Each one features a unique style of poetry, including haiku, cento, epistolary, list, ode, ekphrasis, prose poem, how-to, erasure, and cut-up.If you want to "check out" more poetry, visit the poetry display on the third floor of Case-Geyer.