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Mark Murphy ’77 is retiring as president/CEO of the Green Bay Packers and will be inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame.

Illustration of a football that sayd Hall of Fame.

2

Peter Feldman ’04 was named acting chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

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Paul Harnik, professor of Earth and environmental geosciences, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House in January.

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A new compost program at the Coop and Frank Dining Hall will reduce campus landfill waste.

5

Colgate ITS launched an AI Cafe series to teach staff members how to use tools like ChatGPT.

Illustration of ChatGPT logo

6

John Crespi, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and Asian studies, received an NEH Fellowship to further study a 1940s Chinese political/social commentary cartoon. 

7

ALANA received the 2025 Commitment to Social Justice Education award from the ACPA.

8

Lucy Art ’27 participated in the FISU America Games in Cali, Colombia, as part of a U.S. delegation of Patriot League swimmers.

Illustration of swimmer's googles

9

Bryan (Tai) Pham ’25 won a best delegate award for the second year in a row at EuroSim, a Model European Union program.

10

For the first time, The Colgate Thirteen performed in China during their Jan Tour.

11

The New Yorker published an essay by Kanak Kapur, a 2024–25 Olive B. O’Connor Creative Writing Fellow at Colgate.

Illustration of the New Yorker magazine

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Colgate was designated as a leading Research University, per the Carnegie Foundation and American Council on Education.

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Career Services hosted its 13th annual Sophomore Connections.