Today's Events | Colgate Memorial Chapel
This traditional event offers both reflection for, and a farewell to, the graduating class. The service includes comments from the class's 1819 Award recipient and the recipient of the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. Graduating seniors offer readings from diverse religious and humanist traditions and present musical and dance selections.The graduates will line up for the procession at 3 p.m. and will be seated in the chapel.This event draws many more people than the chapel can hold. Guest seating is limited; doors open at 2:30. Guests may also watch at colgate.edu/commencement or at one of these viewing locations:Lawrence Hall, 105 Ho Lecture Room Olin Hall, Love AuditoriumLearn more at colgate.edu/commencement.Watch the livestream

Today's Events | Hamilton Movie Theater
This new 30-minute documentary film tells the story of Colgate’s pandemic response and the unusual first semester of the Class of 2024.Produced by Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated producer Jeff Sharp ’89, Colgate Together explores how the University navigated difficult decisions and constant uncertainty during the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The film features the voices of several students in the Class of 2024, along with administrators and faculty members involved in the painstaking process of reopening campus in 2020.Free and open to everyone. Attendees will also be treated to a free medium popcorn and soda, courtesy of the Office of the President.

Today's Events | Academic Quad
Seniors will line up on the Academic Quad at 7:45 p.m.First enacted in 1930, under the guidance of the Alumni Association of the University, the Senior Torchlight Procession celebrates the culmination of the graduates’ four years and signifies their transition to life outside of the University.The graduating class members process down the hill carrying torches as a symbol of the “light of knowledge” they have gained through their Colgate education as represented by the torch on the University seal.Families will be able to watch the procession from a designated viewing area. We ask spectators not to interrupt the procession and to refrain from tossing objects to the graduates as they process.Immediately following the Torchlight Procession, the graduates and their families are invited to gather under the Oak Drive tent to enjoy music, dancing, and refreshments.Learn more at colgate.edu/commencement.

Today's Events | Oak Drive Reception Area
Immediately following the Torchlight Procession, graduates and their families are invited to gather under a large tent on Oak Drive near the lower campus to enjoy music, dancing, and refreshments.Learn more at colgate.edu/commencement.

Today's Events | Ho Science Center
In 2017, Kristen T. Woodward was able to witness a total solar eclipse in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was moved by the dramatic planetary display. She is looking forward to viewing another eclipse in her hometown of Webster, New York in April, as we will be in that exquisite path of totality. Woodward marvels at how science has allowed us to countdown the minutes while other events in our lives appear random and chaotic. The experience leaves one to ponder what is pre-ordained. By including images inspired by solar eclipse, her encaustic paintings intend to capture this conflict and visual tension between chaos and natural order.Woodward received her BFA in Printmaking from Syracuse University, and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Her zoomorphic paintings combine encaustic and print processes, and often utilize found collage materials. Woodward is a professor in the department of art and art history at Albright College, teaching drawing, painting, printmaking, and gender and the visual arts. Currently, she is collaborating with an environmental biologist to explore tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica. Woodward serves as is Resident Curator for the online site Artists2Artists.

Today's Events
Residence halls close to all seniors and guests at 5 p.m., except for students with prior approval from Residential Life.