13 Bits of Colgate News

Spring 2023
1

President Brian W. Casey launched a series of live, Third-Century Plan conversations on YouTube.

2

Hancock Commons celebrated the 138 1/2 birthday of namesake Gordon Blaine Hancock with cake and cookies. 

3

Professor Danny Barreto (LGBTQ studies) was named one of six NY6 Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows; their academic explorations will be funded by a $1.5 million grant.

4

Kate Foster ’99 Lengyel launched a skin-care brand with Scarlett Johannson. 

5

Professor Jennifer Lin LeMesurier published Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

6

Now in its 11th year, SophoMORE Connections brought together more than 140 alumni and 500 students for career guidance. 

7

Christopher Gardner ’81, a Stanford nutrition scientist, weighed in on popular health myths in the New York Times

8

Professor Amy Leventer was part of a scientific team that recently released a documentary about Antarctica called The Lake at the Bottom of the World.

9

Data Jam is a new series by ITS to help students enhance their skills in working with data.

10

The Colgate Thirteen performed a Valentine’s concert, complete with all the lovebird classics.

11

Visiting professor, music scholar, and artist Dr. Scot Brown released a new single, “King of Love: MLK,” in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. 

12
Sophomore Residential Seminars included travel to London; Rome; Washington, D.C.; and the U.S. South.

13
Sabrina Setareh Isaacs ’88 Kraus was sworn in as a New York State Supreme Court judge.