Anthony Aveni Retirement
After 54 years of teaching, Anthony Aveni, Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies, is retiring. Help Professor Aveni celebrate by adding your own Aveni story and tribute below.
Illustration by Polly Peterson '95
Recent Posts
May 23, 2017
Retired in Georgia - after military service, business management and helping to prepare students to succeed at private boarding schools.
How has professor Aveni influenced who you are today?
Taught me to keep learning new things - don't stop.
Dear Professor Aveni, as the...
May 23, 2017
Dear Professor Aveni,
It will always stand out for me how you signed your emails to me, "Your Friend, Tony." It was so novel and exciting to think of a professor as a friend. A friend! I am not a standout student, you probably won't remember me from Intro Astronomy and...
May 18, 2017
Hi Tony,
It seems like only yesterday when we met with Dean Jim Storing to begin our careers at Colgate in Fall, 1963. Other new faculty I remember included Tony Busch, Edgar Shore, Jim "Chief" McLaughlin, and Neal Joy.
Enjoy your retirement. It has been 19 years since...
May 18, 2017
Sending love and congratulations to an outstanding gentleman. We met on a Meso-American cruise to Tikal et al in the early 80's. Our daughter Sarah Lane Sproha 1993 also an ardent fan. Best wishes for all future happiness.
xoxoxoxox Richard & Susan Lane
May 18, 2017
I am President Emeritus living in the Finger Lakes after serving for 17 years as a university president: Mansfield University (1998-2005) and SUNY Brockport (2005-2015). Prior to that I was Vice President at both Gonzaga University and the University of Maine following...
May 9, 2017
Really important events are carved epigraphically on the memory. I first met Tony at a party on University Avenue around 6:30 p.m. on December 18th 1986. I was new and the then Dean Chuck Trout said, introducing us, “I think you’ll get on well together.” And so indeed...
May 6, 2017
I have spent the last 7 years as an Asst. Dean at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Prior to this Sunset Years gig, I spent 35 years in the corporate world, most of that time living in Latin America and Asia, working for consumer goods companies. Four of...
Two of my favorite memories (at least those I can reveal) of my time with Tony involve public open house events at the Colgate Foggy Bottom Observatory – observing the annular solar eclipse (May 10, 1994) and the Venus transit of the Sun (June 5, 2012).
"I found that...
Cosmologies, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica
Book, 2015 Dowd & Milbrath: University Press of Colorado,
