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For almost a year, Griffin O’Shea ’13 has been planning an alternative spring break trip to Kenya. Sponsored through the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education, eight ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ undergraduates will spend May 17-31 with orphans and vulnerable children at the Caroline Wambui Mungai Foundation school in Wangige, located northwest of Nairobi.

Longtime geography professor Theodore Herman, whose keen interest in issues of war and peace led to his founding of the university’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program (P-Con), died Thursday, Dec. 30. He was 97. Herman joined ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s faculty in 1955, retiring in 1981. He taught cultural geography, passing on to many students his love of […]

Even though it is a brand new year, we hope it’s not too late for a quick look back at 2010. Here are the five stories posted on www.colgate.edu that were viewed most often during the past year, according to data from Google Analytics:

College graduates can measure success in many ways, some material and some not so tangible. One measure that has been in the news this week focused on post-graduate salary, and ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ found itself in very good company. ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ was ranked eighth among undergraduate institutions in terms of earning potential, higher than schools such as Duke […]

Amy Dudley ’06, who has credited the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ alumni network for launching her career in the nation’s capital, has been named deputy press secretary for Vice President Joe Biden. The White House announcement released Monday said Dudley will replace longtime Biden aide Annie Tomasini at the end of the year.

Sociology professor Meika Loe and her students continue to explore the issue of aging as they collaborate with local elders on poignant digital stories. Thirteen students in Loe’s Sociology of Age, Aging, and the Lifecourse class worked closely with area residents in creating three-minute films about the residents’ lives.

When Richard Pryor died in 2005, after having revolutionized stand-up comedy with poignant profanity-laced examinations of race, The New York Times turned to a former employee to write his obituary: Mel Watkins ’62.

Building houses out of gingerbread helped generate more than $700 that was donated to the real home-building efforts of the Madison County chapter of Habitat for Humanity.