Today's Events | The Coop – O'Connor Campus Center
Meet IFSA representative Eric Tarbell. Colgate uses IFSA study abroad approved programs in the following locations - Cambridge, China, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Cuba. Learn more about the academics available on these semester long programs, which offer a wide variety of academic disciplines..

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Willow Path, Entry - Near Case-Geyer Library
The Colgate Walking Club invites faculty and staff every Thursday for a 30-minute walk. For our April 17 route (from 12:15–12:45 p.m.), we will be joined by Associate Provost for Sustainability John Pumilio who will highlight any sustainability features and birdlife we see along the stroll. This walk also falls during Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green! Have questions? Email Hello@Colgate.edu.The Colgate Walking Club is supported by the Colgate Hello and RISE Employee Resource Groups.This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day.

Today's Events | 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

Today's Events | Chapel House, Entrance
Meet at the Chapel House entrance, and we will breathe in the natural world in a silent meditative walk through the trails and up the hill.

Today's Events | 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.