{"id":6788,"date":"2021-05-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:22:06","slug":"13-bits-of-colgate-news-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2021\/05\/17\/13-bits-of-colgate-news-10\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Bits of Colgate News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

The Biden administration appointed Jung Pak \u201996 as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

\u201cTurtle Supreme,\u201d which doubled as a fully functional quinzhee (snow hut), won the student snow sculpture competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Bob Ross paint by numbers was one \u201cCoop Kit\u201d option for students\u2019 entertainment during January quarantine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustrations by Toby Triumph<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

758 hours were volunteered by staff and faculty members to help students move in for the spring semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In its first year, Colgate\u2019s no-loan initiative awarded more than $1.5 million to students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The Council on Foreign Relations awarded an international affairs fellowship to LeRoy Potts \u201985 for 2021\u201322.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

363 Colgate alumni have served in the Peace Corps, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Don Vaughan, the Don Vaughan Head Men\u2019s Hockey Coach, reached a career milestone when he coached his 1,000th game at the end of 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Professor Ephraim Woods and students built an apparatus<\/a> to understand sunlight-driven reactions in Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Students were invited to perform a song, poetry, and tell jokes in their native tongues as part of ALANA\u2019s International Mother Language Day Open Mic Night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

More than 40 alumni hosted career sessions for 230+ second-year students participating in SophoMORE Connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

This year\u2019s Dancefest, an event that usually packs the chapel with attendees, was held virtually for the first time with prerecorded performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Kiko Galvez, the Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy, has honored Colgate with its first official patent<\/a>: a method to determine the topographical charge of an optical beam.<\/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":6265,"comment_status":"closed","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":[238,553,59,296,225,341],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-13-bits","category-scene","tag-campus-life","tag-covid-19","tag-financial-aid","tag-government","tag-international-relations","tag-mens-hockey"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-1Lu","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/Bob-Ross.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","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=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}