“We dance with the environment,” says Maximilian Spieler ’23 of those who practice parkour. “The goal of parkour is to use the human body and its high potential for agility to find the most effective, precise, and fast way from one place to another without any additional tools. The variation I am practicing here is free running, which borrows techniques from gymnastics and martial arts to incorporate flips into the set of movements, not necessarily adding to efficiency but rather emphasizing style and acrobatics.” Growing up in Frankfurt, Germany, he’s been training for more than eight years and is now licensed to coach. The mathematical economics and computer science major is executing a warped side flip in this photo. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
A place of reflection. University Photographer Mark DiOrio snapped this chapel image in a puddle on the path in front of Lawrence Hall. He was on a photographic walkabout late one cold afternoon, looking for new ways to portray the campus. DiOrio positioned the camera close to the ground to get the chapel in the shot and waited for someone to walk by so that the pedestrian would add another visual layer to the photograph.
Colgate’s Alumni Council has long sought to serve the interests of the University’s 35,000+ alumni and to connect what’s happening on campus with what’s going on in the alumni world. When Colgate unveiled the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan in November 2019, the Alumni Council saw an opportunity to align its efforts with Colgate’s while paving the way for a more inclusive council. Read more about the Alumni Council's DEI efforts in Taking Action with DEI. Pictured: Alumni Council President Chris Johnson ’02 and DEI Committee chair Carlton Walker '10. Illustrations by Anje Jager.
Conversations over fries, friendly tennis matches, and long distance phone calls. Read the heartwarming stories of a few alumni couples in Match Made in Hamilton. Illustration by D’Ara Nazaryan.
In The Carbon Crew, read how two groups of Colgate researchers are studying the effect of wildfires around the world. Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small.
At 23 years old, she’s learning on the job with Suffolk Construction — and getting noticed in an industry that’s traditionally dominated by white males. Learn more: Three Things about Regine Cooper ’19. Photo Andrea Melendez/News-Press.
Frank Zuccari ’72 had a long career in art conservation, working on many famed pieces, including El Greco's The Assumption of the Virgin. Take a look into his life. Photo courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
As an independent scholar on the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Alina Sabyr ’19 studies stargazing and how different cultures interact with the night sky. This image shows the Mount John Observatory in New Zealand's Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, where light pollution is strictly controlled. Read more in Marveling at the Universe Together. Photo by Vaughan Brookfield.
