Maggie Dunne attends the Senior Awards Convocation on Saturday. (Photo by Andy Daddio)

Few students in the nation have achieved the level of recognition and peer respect as has Maggie Dunne, the 2013 recipient of Colgate’s prestigious 1819 Award.

Colgate’s highest honor not only recognizes academic achievement, but also determined spirit. These are the trademark characteristics of Dunne, who not only carried a high GPA, but also worked to effect change at the impoverished Pine Ridge Indian reservation through her creation in 2008 of the non-profit Lakota Children’s Enrichment (LCE).

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NBC’s Today show featured Colgate University’s gift of 119 indigenous artworks to Curtin University in Western Australia.

Watch the segment below, or visit the Today Show page.

Please visit this link to read the full story.

Read the full remarks by Provost Douglas Hicks at the Curtin University transfer ceremony.

Here is a slideshow of the art.

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President Jeffrey Herbst, shown here thanking Daniel Benton ’80, P’12, H’10 for his generous support, said: “We have, I believe, entered a virtuous circle where increased financial aid attracts better students who then serve to entice other impressive young people who want to come to a campus where academic excellence is so obvious.”

Thank you! That was the message on April 26, when 750 members of the Colgate community met in New York City to celebrate the end of Passion for the Climb: The Campaign for Colgate.

The campaign gala, rescheduled for spring after Superstorm Sandy hit Manhattan last autumn, featured a series of speakers who celebrated the campaign’s remarkable $480 million success. They spoke of it in terms of Colgate’s past, present, and future, while paying tribute to the 34,519 alumni, parents, and friends who participated. Read more

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In celebrating the Year of ’13, we are posting a story or list that pertains to our lucky number on the 13th of each month. This month, we’ve compiled a list of alumni you might not know, but who made (or continue to make) a difference. With so many to choose from, we offer just 13 (in no particular order).

13. Thomas J. Pilgrim, 1828, founded the first school in Texas
A graduate of what was then known as Hamilton Divinity School, Pilgrim went to Texas in 1829 and thereafter founded the Austin Academy, an all-boys school. Read more

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This 1949 painting by Reynold Hart is called “A Native Corroboree.” It is one of the 119 indigenous artworks going from Colgate to Curtin University in Western Australia.

In an important example of international, cultural, and educational collaboration, Colgate University will give 119 indigenous artworks to Curtin University in Western Australia. The works, a significant part of the heritage and history of the region, were created by Noongar children who were part of Australia’s “Stolen Generations.” Read more

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Tony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies, teaches a class in the Ho Science Center.

Professor Anthony Aveni has a lot to celebrate.

As students mark their last week of the spring semester, the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies marks the conclusion of his 100th semester teaching at Colgate.

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Colgate encourages students to strive for excellence in their chosen fields of academic endeavor and honors those who achieve distinction in their academic performance. A reception was held earlier this month to congratulate students who won departmental academic awards in the 2012-13 academic year.
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An Abelam pot decorated with ancestral faces now on display at the Longyear Museum of Anthropology.

Swirling designs, a myriad of faces, and earth tones baked into pottery now on display at the Longyear Museum of Anthropology have far more significance than simply being pleasing to the eye.

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“[It’s meant to] allow everyone to listen to how others interpreted the sound art, how they experienced this exhibit and created their own work,” said Wenhua Shi, assistant professor of art and art history at Colgate, who co-curated the exhibition with  Dajuin Yao, artist and director of Open Media Lab at the China Academy of Art. Read more

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Isaac van Ostade (Dutch, 1621-1649), “Peasants at a Doorway [Country Inn].”

The newly acquired paintings are from the Max Oberlander collection, and include works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Brouwer, Ryckaert, and van Ostade.

The exhibition, which also draws on the Picker’s permanent collection of works from the 15th to 17th centuries, seeks to place the new acquisitions in the broader context of how we understand art by the Old Masters, according to Oliver.

The exhibition is the culmination of her extensive research on objects in the Picker’s collection that were produced before 1800. Read more

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