{"id":2269,"date":"2019-08-20T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:59:02","slug":"13-bits-of-colgate-news-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2019\/08\/20\/13-bits-of-colgate-news-3\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Bits of Colgate News"},"content":{"rendered":"

1\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Benton Hall<\/span> earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael J. Herling \u201979, P\u201908, \u201909, \u201912<\/span> is the new chair of Colgate\u2019s Board of Trustees<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

3\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Balakian<\/span><\/a>, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in humanities and professor of English, received the 2019 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a04 <\/span><\/div><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Balancing out <\/span>STEM<\/span>: In the 2019 graduating class, more than 50 percent of physics and astronomy majors are women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a>
Illustrations by Toby Triumph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

5\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to the NFL, <\/span>Thomas Ives \u201919<\/span> headed back to his home state after graduation. Ives, who\u2019s from Hinsdale, Ill., signed with the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent. <\/span><\/p>\n

6\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Spring Party Weekend Kick-off Barbecue was a <\/span>zero-waste event<\/span> featuring biodegradable plates and utensils and post-consumer composting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a><\/p>\n

7\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Case calculation: There were 587,440 total visits to <\/span>Case-Geyer Library<\/span> over the past year. <\/span><\/p>\n

8\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It may be just a myth that Taylor Lake is shaped like a shamrock, but it\u2019s true that it\u2019s the work of the Irish. <\/span>Lant Gilmartin and his team of Irish workers<\/span> turned the Payne Creek marsh into Taylor Lake, according to Jim Smith \u201970.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a><\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The SGA began selling <\/span>subsidized menstrual cups<\/span> for $5 as a sustainable initiative advocating for period destigmatization.<\/span><\/p>\n

10\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

End-of-the-year <\/span>food donations<\/span> from students totaled 149 boxes that were delivered to the Hamilton Food Cupboard. <\/span><\/p>\n

11\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rapolas Ivanauskas \u201921<\/span> scored the Riley Wallace Award, given to the top transfer student-athlete in Division I college basketball. <\/span><\/p>\n

12\u00a0<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

Concussion Survival Kit, a venture by <\/span>Chris Cervizzi \u201919<\/span>, won first place in the pitch contest during Colgate\u2019s Entrepreneur Weekend organized by TIA. <\/span><\/p>\n

13\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Social skills: The University\u2019s Instagram account<\/a> reached <\/span>13,000 followers<\/span> in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Illustration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only have a minute to catch up on Colgate? Scan these 13 news nuggets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[39,192,402,62,68,404,331,223,92,406,403,113,405,315],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-13-bits","category-scene","tag-astr","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-facilities","tag-football","tag-health","tag-libraries","tag-mens-basketball","tag-pbalakian","tag-phys","tag-social-media","tag-spring-party-weekend","tag-sustainability","tag-taylor-lake","tag-tia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-AB","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}