Today's Events | McGregory Hall, 121
The dean of students encourages and supports students’ success by providing opportunities for co-curricular learning and extracurricular experiences to enhance students’ holistic development. Through collaboration with the ALANA Cultural Center, the Office of LGBTQ+ Initiatives, the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), the Office of the Chaplains, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Advising, and the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, Outreach, and Education (COVE) the dean of students assists in curating the student experience at Colgate.Dean of Students Dorsey Spencer Jr. welcomes the chance to discuss life outside the classroom broadly and embraces opportunities to engage with students regarding their questions, interests, or aspirations. Dean Spencer offers weekly open office hours available to students by appointment.Contact Melissa Helmke-Davie (mhelmkedavie@colgate.edu) to schedule a time.

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 111
Join us for a 13 Days of Green event to brainstorm ways sustainability can be incorporated into our next strategic plan.This will count as one credit hour for the employee Sustainability Passport Program.This event is part of the Office of Sustainability’s 13 Days of Green series leading up to Earth Day on April 22. View the 2024 13 Days of Green schedule.

Today's Events | Burke Hall, Burke Lobby
If you’re looking for a quiet space to be productive that’s not the library or your bedroom, join us for our weekly spring study sessions. Drop in anytime to work by yourself, in a group, or with the intention to connect with others.Look forward to treats, study resources, goal setting, and your judgment-free Res Fellow (optional) accountability buddy.All are welcome; Burke will be unlocked regardless of your Common’s affiliation.

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"Search for the Lost Determinant", presented by Mohamed Omar, professor, department of mathematics and statistics, York University.For the past 7-8 years I've been working on trying to prove a class of matrices (that arise in a combinatorial setting) have determinant at most 1. Every year or so I come back to the problem with renewed light and almost every time I learn new linear algebra theorems and how they apply. This talk is a walk through the journey in this almost decade-long escapade.

Today's Events | Baltimore, Md.
Colgate University Men's Tennis at Loyola https://gocolgateraiders.com/calendar.aspx?game_id=10288&sport_id=24

Today's Events | WRCU
Join us for a free concert at WRCU, featuring Bloomsday.The way Bloomsday’s Iris James Garrison writes songs feels like somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they are an ode to things that are good no matter how small; they sometimes feel like the ghost of a Mary Oliver poem. Bloomsday’s new record, 'Heart of the Artichoke', is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure.Like earlier Bloomsday songs, the work here is threaded with warmth; it’s simmering, crisp and deeply human, an encapsulation of the present moment. Recorded across 10 days in June 2023 in upstate New York at duo Babehoven’s studio and co-produced by Babehoven’s Ryan Albert, with mixing by Henry Stoehr of Slow Pulp. The record was built out with a wide-ranging group of collaborators, including inventive drumming from Andrew Stevens (Lomelda, Hovvdy), Alex Harwood, Richard Orofino, Babehoven’s Maya Bon, Hannah Pruzinsky (h.pruz, Sister.), and Chris Daley. It was an insulated and collaborative experience: all family dinners on the back porch, bonfires, feeling a full sense of joy, of friendship, of purity in the artistic self.Collaboration is an integral part of Bloomsday’s musical process. Garrison is malleable in the studio, their songwriting generous and spacious. But in listening to the record, there’s a sense that Garrison leaves room for the players, for the listener; for songs to find the shapes they’re meant to take. Garrison’s role as maestro is crucial, singular – it’s a collaborative, exploratory spirit harnessed by Garrison’s intuition, and by an honest commitment to carve out creative space for play, to delve into what’s known – or pushing past that, into unknown.Garrison is a true-blue songwriter and their structured, earworm compositions have the tendency to get stuck in your head, sometimes reminiscent of the big alternative radio hits of the mid 90s, a la Joan Osborne. “Dollar Slice” is the sweeping centerpoint of the record – Garrison’s cavernous crescendoing vocals, the chaotic tapestry of New York the backdrop, a sort-of 2024-update of “One of Us.” “I'm not religious,” Garrison says, “But I am into the idea of mystical, higher power – whatever that means – and that power seeing me and calling it out. That’s kind of godly to me.”“The ghosts of the past still come up and haunt me,” Garrison says, “but I sit in what I have and see it. All of these songs are about loved ones, about personal struggles with getting out of my head and being present.” Heart of the Artichoke was written from a healed, matured place – written in a moment of safety from chaos. It’s a prayer for the present, an appreciation of tenderness and what happens once we give ourselves the space to really see, and really feel – becoming free and whole – an ode to the way healing allows us to bloom.