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Posts from the Summer 2017 issue

Butler Center Awards Recipients

The Butler Center, CC’s hub of diversity, equity, and inclusion, celebrated students, staff, interns, and faculty at the center’s awards banquet, held at the conclusion of the 2016-17 academic year. Those recognized with awards, named after key figures* in the college’s history of diversity, included: Judy Fisher ’20 and Breanna Elyse Conwell ’19: Taizo Nakashima Emerging Leader…

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Quad Innovation Partnership 
Tackles Community Issues

Ten CC students were among 25 students and recent grads from four area colleges and universities who participated in the third Quad Innovation Project Summer Intensive, partnering with local organizations in developing scalable, innovative solutions to real-world problems. “I was pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged to think bigger, broader, and from multiple…

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Big Idea Team Accepted into Clinton Global Initiative

John Roy Ballossini Dommett ’18, Harvey Kadyanji ’18, and Niyanta Khatri ’17 review the code and design for their Ogugu application during a team work session. Ogugu, which took third-place in this year’s Big Idea competition, has been selected to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative University’s 10th annual meeting in October. Ogugu is a…

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Forget TED. We’ve Got 
TUTT Talks

Five students presented at CC’s first-ever TUTT Talks, held in April in McHugh Commons. Participants Helena Thatcher ’18, Maggie Mehlman ’19, Stefani Messick ’17, Trevon Newmann ’18 (right), and Barbora Hanzalova ’17 shared how their passions can make an impact, showcasing the ideas, experience, and creativity of CC’s community. Students used performance, spoken-word poetry, and…

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Five awarded tenure

Five Colorado College associate professors were promoted to full professor during the June Board of Trustees meeting. They are: Lori Driscoll, Psychology An alumna of Colorado College, Driscoll earned her B.A. (1994) in psychology, magna cum laude. After completing her dissertation on “The Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure on the Cholinergic Modulation of Attention and…

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