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Alumni News
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Alumni News
Greetings from 'Gate
Once again I bid you greetings from all of us here at Colgate. As usual, we've been busy and all kinds of things have gone on. Fortunately, the "good stuff" is still here and unchanged. We still run the OC, still get our students involved in research, still teach to the best bunch of students that Colgate has, still bring in funding and still remain active in our own research. We've struggled to keep all our students funded for summer research since the National Science Foundation cut off our REU site grant. After six years of continuous funding, more than any other Geology Department in the country, they decided that we'd had enough. We still hope to squeeze some more grants out of the NSF for this program that funded so many of you. In the meantime, we've managed to work effectively with the Science Division in getting summer stipends and have utilized some of our endowments and contributions from you to make sure that everyone who wants can stay here after the OC and do some research. Thanks for all of you that have contributed to the department for this!
We've also begun the procedures for a formal BA in Environmental Geology. Rich April has worked hard at this, as has Bruce Selleck, who is back in the department. We all hope that this goes through the approval process without difficulty. Geology faculty have been active in taking study groups. Bruce is in Wales right now with a group of students from the sciences and next year Chief will take a group to Australia. As usual, we want you all to keep in touch with us and invite you to visit the department whenever you're nearby.
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