Today's Events

Today's Events | Various Locations
Join partners across campus to celebrate sustainability and the environment in the 13 days leading up to Earth Day on April 22.After getting started with the Kick-Off event in the Academic Quad, explore issues of sustainability through the arts, social justice, academics, career development, and more.Stay up to date through the Office of Sustainability Instagram page and newsletter. This celebration honors the remarkable and diverse contributions of Colgate students, highlighting the many ways they enhance our campus community across all subdivisions of the Dean of the College division. View all events here.

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 305
Join Morning Meditation with Jeff McArn, Chapel House program coordinator.

Today's Events
No matter where you are in life—just getting started or planning for retirement—a session with a Financial Consultant can help you create a plan for your goals. And, it's at no additional cost as a part of your retirement plan. You’ll get answers to these questions and more:Am I invested in the right mix of investments to help meet my goals?Am I saving enough to create the retirement income I need?How do I take income from my retirement account once I stop working?TIAA will be available on these dates and times for one-on-one sessions.Thursday, April 17, 2025, 9:00am- 4:00pm, Case Geyer 511Thursday, May 22, 2025, 9:00am- 4:00pm, Case Geyer 511Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 9:00am- 4:00pm, Alana Cultural CenterRegister for a session at tiaa.org.schedulenow or by calling 1-800-732-8355

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ’25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn

Today's Events | 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.

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 | Little Hall, Clifford Gallery (101 Little Hall)
Through an ongoing series of community conversations, artist and architect Suchi Reddy has been in dialog with students, faculty, staff, and townspeople throughout the 2024-2025 academic year to learn about the ways in which our encounters with reflection and misreflection in physical and digital spaces contribute to our experience of bias and belonging. A culmination of the year's conversations, Bias and Belonging poetically reframes the Colgate community's embodied experience of belonging in woven, textual and digital forms. Bias and Belonging is the latest iteration of Reddy's ongoing exploration into embodied states of being that reflect our individual and collective experience as we code switch and transform in evolving environments both digital and physical.Presented by the Art Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation**The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence was established in 1986 as a challenge grant in support of the arts at Colgate. The residency program permits one or more artists to become part of the Colgate community every academic year.*Please note: Weekend hours are dependent on the availability of student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department (315-228-7633), during regular working hours, to ensure the gallery will be open. The gallery is not open during university breaks and holidays.

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.

Today's Events | 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.

Today's Events | Bernstein Hall, The Vault, Rm 102
This spring, FMST’s Horror Media class is developing card games a la Arkham Horror and Magic: the Gathering. These games will feature a bestiary of monsters and assorted horrors invented by our students in order to theorize our contemporary moment. Come support your fellow Colgate students as they build a game that is as fun as it is deliciously frightful. ++ During and after the playtest, we will also have a playthrough of The Thaumaturge, an award-winning 2024 videogame set in 19th-century Poland in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution. In this game, you play Wiktor Szulski, a magician who collects people’s demons — literal monsters that latch onto their character flaws — and uses them to fight increasingly powerful terrors that haunt his dying empire. The Thaumaturge features European folklore, turn-based combat, Polish history, and a wild reimagining of Grigori Rasputin. All attendees are invited to play, comment, or sit back and watch as the spirit moves them. Snacks will be provided.*Attendees are free to come and go throughout the night, though we do ask that you do so non-disruptively. The event will run until folks get tired or until the building closes, whichever comes first.Co-sponsored by Art, Computer Science, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Today's Events | Donovan's Pub
Put your knowledge to the test every Thursday from 8:00 to 9:30 PM at Donovan’s Pub! Each week features a brand-new trivia theme, so there’s always something fresh to challenge your team. Compete for a chance to win prizes—the top three teams will take home rewards! Whether you're a trivia pro or just looking for a fun night out, grab your friends, enjoy the lively atmosphere, and see if you have what it takes to claim the top spot. See you there!