Gallery — Autumn 2020 | Colgate Magazine

Students listening to speaker in Colgate Chapel

Near the edge of Utah’s Wasatch mountains lives Jake Krong ’06. Every morning, he wakes before the sun rises and ascends the Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons — using skis when it’s snowing and sneakers in the warmer months.

After trekking back down, Krong spends his workday organizing clinical trials and running an organ transplant research department. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s also been brainstorming ways to help patients get the care they need without putting them at risk. Read more about Krong.

When April Williams ’07 joined Girls Inc. of NYC in June 2019, it was an opportunity to utilize and expand upon strengths she’d developed throughout a decade of working at nonprofits dedicated to disadvantaged youth. Learn more about Williams. Photo by Diane Bezucha.

An illustration of a modern mad walking among men in robes from Ancient Greece

Joel Rosen ’69 was one of several college students to join the fight for school integration and against voter suppression during the civil rights movement. Through VISTA, a government program created to help alleviate poverty in America, he and others supported Black Americans trying to take hold of their rights in the face of adversity. Learn more about Rosen and his journey down south.

plastic chicken arranged with sticks spelling out "learn"

Rae Scott-Jones ’74 and her four friends from Philadelphia were among the 15 Black women who enrolled in Colgate’s first official coeducational class. Read about Colgate's history of coeducation.

As of mid-September, more than 7,100 COVID-19 tests were administered on campus; 1,529 tests were the most done in one day (Aug. 31). Staff hours dedicated to testing through the end of the quarantine period totaled 1,554.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at campuswide efforts to keep the University community safe. Photo by Mark DiOrio.

Colgate men's basketball team huddled up

A fresh perspective: Women from the first official coeducational class arrived in the fall of 1970, with a number of them moving into Stillman Hall. Today, Stillman is part of the Mabel Dart Colegrove Residential Commons — named after the first full-time female student at Colgate. Photo by Mark DiOrio.

Muralist before his mural of Mexican folk musicians

Here, students participate in an outdoor activity during campuswide quarantine. Read about the efforts of faculty and staff members to support Colgate students during the fall semester. Photo by Mark DiOrio.