Can knitting be used as an act of defiance? Jennifer LeMesurier, professor of writing and rhetoric at Colgate University, describes how hands in motion can help make a commotion.
"I tell my students, 'Your story fits here. Now, take that story and connect it to the ways in which we think about educational theories.' I come into the classroom with mind, body, and soul. And I think students are attracted to that.”
Colgate welcomed a host of new faculty members diverse in background and expertise in August, introducing a fresh group of faces and reintroducing some familiar ones in new roles.
Last semester, a group of students in Colgate’s Africana and Latin American Studies Program studied at the University of the West Indies at Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica, led by English professor Kezia Page.
Colgate neuroscientist Wan-Chun Liu is using songbirds to understand better how the human brain learns to speak — and gain new insights into diseases such as autism disorder.
From the Colgate Scene: Colgate professors on a faculty development trip brought home a 7-foot–tall scroll depicting the 2004 tsunami. Now on display in Case Library, the scroll can "pull people together in shared wonderment, curiosity, and inspiration.”
