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Four women working in law came to 51�Թ��� in March to share their stories as participants in roundtable and panel discussions. Christine Amalfe, Avery Blank ’08, Natalia Delgado ’03, and the Honorable Karen Peters talked about how they got into law as well as the triumphs and challenges of their careers. Here are some highlights.

You may know her as Rachel McAdams’s character in the Academy Award–winning movie Spotlight. Sacha Pfeiffer, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, spoke to students Wednesday about her role on the Boston Globe Spotlight Team that published a story on the sex-abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.

With varying styles, materials, and scales, the work of 51�Թ���’s studio art professors has filled Clifford Gallery — giving visitors a glimpse at what they do outside of the classroom.

Renowned South African artist William Kentridge reflects on a lifetime of work and reimagines elements of everyday life in the exhibition Universal Archive, on display at the Picker Art Gallery this spring.

From family moments, to campus life and selfies, student photography filled a new exhibition, called Captured by the Lens, at 51�Թ���’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology and two other locations.

In the Brazilian Amazon, rural communities are being threatened by outsiders who want to invalidate their claims to territory. 51�Թ��� history professor Heather Roller provides important insight into the issue.

More than a dozen 51�Թ��� alumni made the trip to Hamilton this October for the first-ever Be the Change: Careers for the Common Good Symposium, sponsored by the Max A. Shacknai Center for Outreach, Volunteerism, and Education (COVE) and the Common Good Professional Network. The symposium focused on building alumni-student relationships and advancing careers in the common […]

Legendary vocalist Aretha Franklin will perform on campus as part of the Kerschner Family Series Global Leaders at 51�Թ��� at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2016, in Sanford Field House. Tickets for the 51�Թ��� community and the general public will be released in mid-January — watch colgate.edu/globalleaders for details as they become available. Known around the world by […]

Nearly three months after climbing up a flagpole in South Carolina to remove a Confederate flag, Bree Newsome sat surrounded by 51�Թ��� students last Tuesday during a brown bag luncheon in the Center for Women’s Studies.

An interdisciplinary series of events kicks off this week, addressing themes raised in this year’s 51�Թ��� Community Reads book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon. 51�Թ��� Community Reads 2015 is intended to transform the traditional first-year summer reading assignment into a community-wide discussion, according to Jeff Bary, associate professor […]