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Dozens of ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ students proved this past weekend that they are politically engaged when it comes to environmental issues.

Transformation, an exhibition of mixed media sculptures by Carol Cole, is on display through Feb. 17 in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology on the second floor of Alumni Hall. Made of polystyrene, handmade paper, paint, and found objects, the work is inspired by the artifacts of ancient and tribal artists and architects.

A year and a half ago, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University music professor Laura Klugherz received a letter from a film company interested in using a piece of her music for an upcoming documentary about World War II. Klugherz didn’t think much about the request. In fact, she tucked the letter away in her files.

Students and faculty will not be the only ones working in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology next week.   Two Tibetan monks from Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, N.Y., will be creating a sand mandala in the reading room on the library’s third floor. (See this webcam to watch them work).

Once a week, a first-floor room in the Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology is transformed into a TV newsroom bristling with students working with the latest video technology. The seven students are writing, taping, and editing Gate Update, a show highlighting campus events. The group’s first show was posted on www.colgate.edu this […]

As observers and passers-by witness Willoughby Sharp’s Ice and Air outdoor installations on campus, they will experience the artworks differently as the pieces change with the passing of time.

²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Hunger Outreach Program’s Local Food Fair drew involved students, interested community members, and the Swinging Gates to The Loj last week for a fresh and delicious feast made entirely of food produced in the Hamilton area. Liz Whitehurst ’08, community coordinator at The Loj, a college theme house dedicated to the environment, said students […]

Working out of an office inside ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University’s Ho Science Center, a group of students is having an impact on a community more than 7,000 miles away – in Uganda, Africa. The undergraduates are part of a unique venture between ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ and Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an Africa-based nongovernmental organization focused on environmental conservation […]