The Public Interest Fellowship Program is pleased to announce the incoming cohort of PIFP fellows. Below, meet this year’s fellows and learn which partner organizations they will be working with during the upcoming summer and year. PIFP offers paid summer and yearlong fellowships to CC students and graduates. This pipeline to nonprofit partner organizations provides fellows …
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Charge On, Tigers
CC has taken another step toward the goal of expanding its electric vehicle infrastructure to make charging more accessible campus wide. CC has installed a dual-head (two-car capacity) ChargePoint electric vehicle charger just north of Tutt Library. The parking is open to members of the CC community and outside community members, as it is on the …
Ella Axelrod ’19 Uncovers Artifacts and Passion for Archaeology
By Alana Aamodt ’18 Some students enter college with an inkling of what they want to study, and Ella Axelrod ’19, was no different: they had a sneaking suspicion of their interest in archaeology after participating on an archaeology field trip in eighth grade. At CC, Axelrod dove in head first, talking their way into …
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Jeremy Zucker ’18 Prepping for Graduation and World Tour
By Alana Aamodt ’18 For any student, studying on the Block Plan is a major balancing act — fast paced and sometimes stressful, it all leads to those four days of block break when students can finally take that long awaited nap, hop in a car and drive to the desert, explore Denver or, in …
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Students Earning A+ Computer Certification with New Program
By Alana Aamodt ’18 Starting this week, students interested in computers and information technology are embarking on a 10-week A+ computer certification course. Meeting once a week, students will learn to maintain, customize, and operate personal computers with the goal of passing with an A+ certification, an entry-level certification for PC computer service technicians. The …
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Refining Big Ideas During Half Block
By Alana Aamodt ’18 The Big Idea competition is just a few weeks away and the Innovation at CC team has been hard at work throughout Half Block in its new student-designed space on the corner of Weber Street and Cache La Poudre, helping students perfect their pitches. The Big Idea is a startup pitch …
Norberto Orellana ’20 Inspires with TEDx Talk
By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Norberto Orellana ’20 wants people to know that success is always imminent. The CC sophomore has overcome a lot in his 19 years; he’s been extremely successful and continues to have big aspirations. Orellana was born with right spastic semihemiplegia cerebral palsy and has been through many surgeries to limit its …
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Recent Grad Published in Philosophy Journal
By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Recent CC grad Lykkefry Bonde ’17 put her CC education to good use over the summer; she had an article published in the September issue of the journal Kierkegaard in Process. Kierkegaard in Process is an academic journal based out of the University of Copenhagen that allows undergraduate and graduate students …
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Diverse Learners Week Becoming New Tradition at CC
By Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Colorado College is celebrating Diverse Learners Week. Diverse Learners Week was initiated in 2016 with the goal of “celebrating and embracing the diverse ways that members of our campus community learn and contribute to learning environments at CC,” says Sara Rotunno, assistant director of Accessibility Resources. This year, Accessibility Resources collaborated …
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Hayley Bates ’18 Heads to Mountain Bike Nationals
Senior Hayley Bates is representing Colorado College on the national stage, heading to Missoula, Montana, this weekend to compete in her final Collegiate Mountain Biking National Championships. Bates says regular season racing this year has helped prepare her for the stacked field at nationals. “It was the biggest and fastest field we’ve ever had in …
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