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A documentary co-produced by Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies Dylan Nelson, which also includes the work of numerous CC film students, premiered this summer at the prestigious Telluride (Colo.) Film Festival. The film, “Merchants of Doubt,” directed by Robert Kenner (“Food, Inc.”) and inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik…

Geology Professor Christine Smith Siddoway and CC geology students have made an astounding discovery in the rocks of Colorado, near Colorado Springs. Their findings, published by the Geological Society of America and published widely in the geology world, detail a sandstone formation amid surrounding granite. Siddoway notes that the sandstone is of major significance for…

The Butler Center’s story begins with the Colorado College Class of 1940. Student Ellis Ulysses Butler ’40 was one of the college’s first African-American students. The account of his time at CC depicts both struggle and success. Butler recognized that his years as an undergraduate provided value to his career and his life, despite challenges…

Hampton Sides, author of the best-selling “In the Kingdom of Ice,” is taking the helm at CC’s new Journalist-in-Residence Program. The program aims to raise the profile of non-fiction writing on campus while also bringing some of the nation’s top non-fiction writers, which include historians, journalists, and commentators, to campus to teach and participate in…

The Colorado Springs Sports Corp. hosted its 15th Annual Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony Oct. 28 at the Broadmoor World Arena. Two CC legends were among the five individuals, one team, and two special award winners joining the ranks of honorees. Horst Richardson embarked upon his 50th season with the CC men’s…

At noon on Tuesday, Nov. 11, a special Veterans Day ceremony was held at Colorado College. Members of the college and local community gathered at the Earle Flagpole for the special ceremony, honoring all veterans but especially those who attended CC as part of the V-12/V-5 program. As with the eleventh-hour ceremony that takes place…

Colorado College women’s soccer will add another impressive chapter to its storied history in July 2015 when it competes as Team USA at the World University Games in Gwangju, Korea. CC, which hosted the first collegiate championship in 1980, was selected by the U.S. International University Sports Federation (US-IUSF) as the first full collegiate women’s…

The academic year is the center of CC’s mission, but a big part of our strategic plan is to create new opportunities in the summer.

The CC Office of Alumni Relations will sponsor several new alumni summer programs in Summer 2015. The first, “The Art of the Pitch,” will be a quarter-block class for alumni on July 15-19, 2015, on the CC campus. Innovation Institute Director Patrick Bultema and bestselling novelist/Colorado College English Professor Steve Hayward will create a hands-on…

When moving from one phase of life to another, what do you need to be happy and successful? Friends and a little structure to feel like you belong. Guidance on the unwritten rules of your new culture. “What anybody needs when transitioning to a new situation is really pretty much the same,” said Anne Hyde,…