Dear Colleagues,

I hope some of you will consider nominating a faculty member for the Balmuth award, which are due next Monday. Please my earlier message see below.

Best wishes,
Constance Harsh

Dear Colleagues,

I write to solicit nominations for the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. This award, endowed by Mark Siegel ’73, is named for Jerry Balmuth, Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Emeritus.

The Balmuth Award celebrates superb teaching at Colgate. The recognition is accompanied by a significant cash prize, and the donor has provided support for an event honoring the awardee that coincides with the April meeting of the Colgate Board of Trustees.

The description of the Balmuth Award is as follows: “The prize will be awarded to a faculty member whose teaching is distinctively successful and transformative, recognizing that such distinction can be achieved through a broad spectrum of methodologies ranging from traditional to innovative, and that transformative teaching nearly always goes hand-in-hand with rich student-faculty engagement.” There have been six prior recipients: Marilyn Thie, Philosophy and Religion (2010); Adam Burnett, Geography (2011); Tony Aveni, Physics and Astronomy / Sociology and Anthropology (2012); Margaret Maurer, English (2013); Doug Johnson, Psychology (2014); and Karen Harpp, Geology (2015).

In your letter of nomination, please identify how the nominee’s teaching fits the description of the award. Letters should be sent by February 1 to Helen Payne (hpayne@colgate.edu). Thank you for your consideration.

Best wishes,

Constance Harsh
Interim Dean of the Faculty and Provost
Professor of English
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
(315) 228-7222

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The colloquium for this afternoon is now going to be held in 300 Olin (Love Auditorium)

Natural Sciences And Mathematics Colloquium Series 2015-2016

Joseph Williams
Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
Ohio State University

The Role of Persistence in Science: A Message to Young Scientists from a Silver-Backed Male

For all students that are considering Science, broadly defined, as a career path, it might be helpful to examine the careers of past great scientists to gain insights into how one can become as successful as possible. By way of introduction, we ask what science is, and how does a scientist think? Read more

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Hello all,

Due to a building issue, all shows are cancelled tonight in the Ho Tung Visualization Lab. We resume schedule next Friday night. Sorry for any inconvenience.

-Vis Lab Staff

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Come to our Sunday afternoon concerts and you will be spellbound. We welcome you. And the concerts are free! See you in the Chapel.

Marietta Cheng,
Chair of the Colgate University Department of Music

For more information please call Lorraine Joseph, Concert Coordinator 315-228-7642

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Mondays at noon, Lawrence 305

Please join fellow students, faculty, and staff for a 5-week series of dialogues on issues of identity, diversity, and inclusion at Colgate, based in the principles of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD)*.

January 25 – “Ohmigod I’m White”
Allie Fry (Program Assistant, Women’s Studies) and Christelle Boursiquot (Outreach Programming Coordinator, ALANA Cultural Center)

Feb. 1 – “Seeing is believing? Hidden Disabilities at College”
Ashley Taylor (Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Studies)

Feb. 8 – “Interrupting Islamophobia”
Esther Rosbrook (Administrative Assistant, Romance Languages and Literature), Aisha Musa (Assistant Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)

Feb. 15 – “Restorative Justice, A Dialogue on the Interconnectedness of Wrongdoing”
Tamala Flack (Director of Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action)

Feb. 22 – “Moving from Dialogue to Action”
khristian kemp-delisser (Assistant Dean/Director of LGBTQ Initiatives)

*Intergroup dialogue (IGD, sometimes called intergroup relations, or, IGR) is a method of inquiry that promotes active listening and constructive dialogue around difficult topics such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, and other important issues. Both facilitators and participants remain attentive to cognition and emotion, commonalities and differences, individual perspectives and systemic realities. Although some sustained intergroup dialog groups meet for anywhere from two days to fourteen weeks, the pedagogies it has inspired can be applied fruitfully to single-session discussions.

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The Dean of the College Division is seeking nominations for the awards listed below. All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their nominations and letters of support at colgate.edu/awards. The deadline for nominations is Friday, February 12, 2016.

Please take some time to nominate those students who are worthy of distinction.

George W. Cobb Awards — A fund established by the late George W. Cobb, class of 1894, is used to recognize outstanding achievement by undergraduates (first-year, sophomores & juniors). Not less than ten nor more than twenty awards are made annually to those students who, during the college year immediately preceding the award, have demonstrated qualities of outstanding leadership and effective influence among their fellow students on campus, as well as among prospective students in developing interest in Colgate.

The Adam Clayton Powell Jr ’30 Award — Recognizes seniors who have made outstanding contributions to Colgate and in the process have enriched the campus community for students of color. Students will have contributed to the cultural life, the social life, the organizational life and have enriched the life of the student community of color.

The Class of 1997 Award — The Class of 1997 Award provides financial assistance to graduating seniors with preference given to a candidate pursuing a graduate level degree. The recipient will be both a leader and an intellectual and will have contributed to the many facets of the Colgate community or will have initiated a program or project that has greatly contributed to the well-being of the campus community. To be considered, this candidate must graduate in the top half of the class.

The Dean’s Community Service Award — This award is given to the most worthy senior who has given significant service to the local community. This service exemplifies an understanding that we are part of a larger community and that volunteer service and civic participation are part of the responsibility of well-educated women and men.

Your nominations are very important to the awards process. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Peter Tschirhart, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Scholars Programs at 315-228-6532 or ptschirhart@colgate.edu.

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I write to solicit your nominations for the 2016 awarding of the Colgate Alumni Corporation 1819 Award. This prestigious prize is awarded annually to the member of the senior class “whose character, scholarship and service best exemplify the spirit that is Colgate.”

All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their nominations and letters of support describing those qualities of the nominee that make him or her worthy of consideration for this award at colgate.edu/awards.

The 2016 Awards Convocation will take place on Tuesday, April 26, in the chapel. In order to assure that each nominee receives the fullest consideration, please submit your nominations no later than Friday, February 12th.

Jill Harsin
Interim President

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