![Matthew McGeary í24 Student researcher walks in wildflower field with camera](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/071223_Matthew_McGeary_MDD_0333.jpg)
Matthew McGeary ’24 assisted with
the Central New York Native Bee
Survey through his work with the
B-Team at Rogers Environmental
Education Center. “Even just in
my short 21 years here on Earth,
I am already seeing the ways that
not only the world’s ecosystems
are changing, but also the ones in
my backyard,” says McGeary, who
worked on the project as a Colgate
Upstate Institute Summer Field
School Fellow. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
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![Alexa Lim ’25 Student sits in a kayak with binoculars](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Kayak.jpg)
In the Adirondacks, Alexa Lim ’25 studied loons to research their general behavior and nesting survivorship. She observed loons once a week throughout the summer as part of her research through Colgate’s Upstate Institute. Hailing from Weston, Mass., Lim is an environmental studies major with a double minor in biology and global public environmental health. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
![Student sits in a kayak with binoculars](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Kayak-175x140.jpg)
![FrankDining2 Students walk past the Frank Dining Hall podium.](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/FrankDining2.jpg)
This fall, Frank Dining Hall added
two new stations — La Mesa offers
Mexican flavors, and Paper Lantern
serves up savory Asian-fusion.
Head Chef Anthony Donofrio strives
to keep Frank fresh with new
offerings, alongside his initiatives
to cook from scratch whenever
possible and supplement the
salad bar with produce from the
Community Garden. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
![Students walk past the Frank Dining Hall podium.](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/FrankDining2-175x140.jpg)
![Chitra Ganesh mural A painted mural](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/092623_mural_MDD_0004.jpg)
It took just four days for visual artist Chitra Ganesh to breathe life into a grand, wall-sized mural of a woman’s body in the Clifford Gallery. Photo by Mark DiOrio
![A painted mural](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/092623_mural_MDD_0004-175x140.jpg)
![Paul DuVall Paul DuVall in the heating plant.](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/072523_Paul_DuVall_MDD_0207.jpg)
Colgate's Heating Plant Foreman Paul Duvall is one of the University staff members featured in "Above and Beyond." Photo by Mark DiOrio
![Paul DuVall in the heating plant.](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/072523_Paul_DuVall_MDD_0207-175x140.jpg)
![20230925_KC_Colgate_Kassandra_1300 1 Kassandra Alberico ’17 kicks opponent during mixed martial art practice](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/11/20230925_KC_Colgate_Kassandra_1300-1.jpg)
Kassandra Alberico ’17, who handles civil rights and sexual violence cases at Regis University, practices MMA for self-defense skills that she also teaches to students. Meet Alberico. Photo by Kris Cheng
![Kassandra Alberico ’17 kicks opponent during mixed martial art practice](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/11/20230925_KC_Colgate_Kassandra_1300-1-175x140.jpg)
![Biddle Coach Dick Biddle hugs another coach](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Biddle.jpg)
The winningest football coach in Colgate and Patriot League history, Dick Biddle passed away in August. Read about Biddle's life.
![Coach Dick Biddle hugs another coach](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/Biddle-175x140.jpg)
![Museum Studies and History A student stoops closer to view installation](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/MUSE310A.jpg)
Students are studying the utopian society of the Oneida Community Mansion House in a fall museum studies and history course. Learn more. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
![A student stoops closer to view installation](https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/08/MUSE310A-175x140.jpg)