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Most of the nation’s colleges and universities will be affected in some way by the H1N1A influenza virus in the 2009-10 academic year. Colorado College is well positioned to deal with this virus, says Dr. Judith Reynolds, medical director at Boettcher Health Center. Six years ago when the SARS virus broke out, the college established…

Radio at Colorado College is on the move as The SOCC, the student-run station, relocated to new quarters and KRCC, the college’s NPR member station, takes to the streets. The SOCC (the Sound of Colorado College), which first went on the air in spring 2008 from its birthplace in the basement of KRCC, moved to…

How do you move five old fine printing presses, weighing up to 3,500 pounds, keeping them from damage and misalignment? Very carefully, and with the help of a moving truck, forklift, and tow truck. CC moved the 31-year-old Press at Colorado College’s collection of printing presses and lead type from the basement of Jackson House…

New Assistant Professor of Biology Emilie Gray may be surprised by the efforts that CC inadvertently made to help support her research. This summer the old animal suites in the Barnes Science Center basement were remodeled into a multiuse biology/chemistry/anatomy lab, and the adjoining labs were remodeled to improve ventilation and to better meet the…

Colorado College welcomed 527 first-year students and 32 transfer students, and presented three alumni with honorary degrees at its Opening Convocation on Aug. 31, which marked the beginning of the college’s 136th academic year. Marc Acito ’90, a novelist, former syndicated humor columnist, and former professional opera singer, received a standing ovation at the conclusion…

Dear Alumni and Parents, Each year when I greet the new class of Colorado College students, I urge them to orient themselves around the mountain. Pikes Peak was here long before CC and will be here long after, and in the meantime we get to claim it as our own — the touchstone against which…

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization by Andrew Price-Smith, political science professor This timely book analyzes the relationship between public health and governance, particularly looking at how disease affects national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book, “The Health of Nations,” Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease…

Worlds Apart?: Disability and Foreign Language Learning by Tammy Berberi ’91, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, and Ian M. Sutherland Today’s foreign language teachers are increasingly expected to be skilled in addressing multiple intelligences and learning styles, yet without a reliable resource that consolidates the best of what is known about the broad spectrum of disabilities that…

The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum: An Agenda for Reform by Kristie Kauerz ’91, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Kate Tarrant The authors focus on the more than two million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age five participating in non-parental care, and address…

The Family of Sukey Lewis in the Plantation South by Heather Palmer ’81 Working from a cache of newly discovered diaries and letters from 1793 to 1866, Palmer presents the story of five generations of an American family. As each generation featured moves further west, the men write of the challenge of bringing crops to…