AlumniPeopleSpring 2015

I am STEM

When Stephanie Wortel ’06 asked a group of middle schoolers to draw a scientist, they mostly depicted old white men with kooky hair and lab coats. Wortel certainly didn’t see herself, or more importantly the children, represented in the drawings.
AlumniPeopleSpring 2015

His honor

Throughout his legal career, working in the family court system, Richard Rivera ’86 has strived to be a role model and to help young people avoid becoming adult criminals.
AlumniPeopleSpring 2015

An ounce of prevention

Dr. Peter Greenwald ’57 has changed the way America fights cancer, but his career-long fascination with the power of preventive medicine began far from home — halfway around the world, in fact, in the Pacific island kingdom of Tonga.
In TributeSpring 2015

In Tribute

Rev. Coleman Brown, Colgate’s chaplain and professor of philosophy and religion for nearly three decades, died Dec. 14, 2014, at the age of 80.
Photo GallerySpring 2015

Perfect pollination

A European Hornbeam, or Carpinus betulus, comes to life outside Memorial Chapel as spring descends on Hamilton. The tree is adorned with catkins, cylindrical flower clusters that allow the tree to be pollinated by wind. (Photo by Andrew M. Daddio)
Photo GallerySpring 2015

Raider Nation

It was a close game — for fans in the nosebleed seats and in terms of the action — when Colgate challenged Cornell in Starr Rink on January 30. The Raiders lost to the Big Red 2-1 in overtime. (Photo by Andrew M. Daddio)