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The 2009-10 State of the Rockies Series focuses on “Food and Agriculture in the Rockies: Current Challenges and New Trends.” Six students spent the summer conducting field research, and their findings are published in the State of the Rockies Report Card: www.coloradocollege.edu/StateoftheRockies/reportcard.html The student researchers were Patrick Creeden ’10 who studied threats to ranching, ways…

Women’s Soccer Geoff Bennett, head coach of the women’s soccer team, announced on Feb. 11 that five recruits had signed national letters of intent to attend and play for Colorado College next fall. Joining CC as first-years for the 2010 season will be forward Lauren DiGregorio of Burnsville, Minn.; midfielder/forward Lynn Froetscher of Glencoe, Ill.;…

When people ask what sustainability measures Colorado College has initiated, do you point with pride to pervious paving? Compliment the composting program? Praise The Preserve? Expound enthusiastically on the environmental mobile lab and energy audits? Colorado College has a variety of sustainability initiatives in place, and to help increase awareness of them, the Campus Sustainability…

Five new members were inducted into the William Jackson Palmer Founders Society on Nov. 5, in a ceremony at the base of the Earle Flagpole on Worner Quad. The Society was created in 2002 to honor Colorado College benefactors whose lifetime gifts total or exceed $1 million. The new inductees are: The Inasmuch Foundation, with…

Economics Professor Mark Smith spent the fall of 2009 as a Fulbright-Schuman EU Scholar studying the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, based in Brussels. As part of his sabbatical, he attended the United Nations 15th Conference of the Parties on Global Climate Change in Copenhagen. Despite the wintry setting, Copenhagen was the hot place to…

Bookstore Advisory Committee Recommends Outsourcing The Bookstore Advisory Committee, working since September 2009 on the question of whether the CC Bookstore operations should be outsourced or return to a self-operated model, on Dec. 10 presented a unanimous recommendation in favor of outsourcing. The committee included faculty, staff and students. The CC Bookstore was outsourced largely…

Colorado College has received more than $2.3 million from the James W. Austin Charitable Remainder Unitrust, which will go toward a scholarship fund providing unrestricted financial aid. The gift originally was made in May 1993 by James Austin ’29, and remains the single largest life income gift in the history of Colorado College. The funds…

Brittney Moore ’10, a psychology major from Security, Colo., and Charlie Paddock ’09, a mathematical economics major from Fountain, Colo., served as interns at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver through a partnership with Colorado College and the United States Olympic Committee. The internship began in December in Colorado Springs, with Moore and Paddock working…

According to the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the Tiger. Which is good news for CC – and the 45 other U.S. colleges and universities that claim the tiger as a mascot. The only mascot that is more popular among colleges and universities is the eagle. The 12 most popular names for four-year…

Fulbright Visiting Specialist Nigar Nazar, the first woman cartoonist of Pakistan, and very likely the entire Muslim world, spent Blocks 1 and 2 at CC, where she team-taught “Freedom and Authority in Everyday Life: Women, Men, and Children in the Middle East” with Assistant History Professor Jane Murphy. Nazar arrived in Colorado Springs in September…