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A “messy collision between the theory and the practice of teaching community-based studio arts” had seven students wheel-throwing, sculpting, painting, and making collages during a 10-day Half-Block course, Art Education and Learning Laboratory. “We practiced how to identify, and fill, the gaps between what a student already knows and what they are about to learn,”…

Colorado College will bestow an honorary degree on global media leader, philanthropist, producer, and actress Oprah Winfrey, who is this year’s Commencement speaker. She will deliver the Commencement address at 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 19, in a ceremony on Tava Quad (formerly known as Armstrong Quad). Ticketed seating will be limited to graduating seniors and…

Lesley Irvine had a choice to make in 1998. The recent college graduate could stay in her native England and teach or take the less conventional route of moving to Iowa to play field hockey while earning a master’s degree. Choosing the latter set the tone for a series of career moves that led to…

’99 Katie Jenkins ’99, a daughter, Hannah Jean, March 21, in Bismarck, North Dakota. ’05 Megan Fitzgibbons ’05 and Yusuke Fitzgibbons, a son, Kai Michael, Sept. 25, in Yokohama, Japan. John Lanham ’05 and Eve Ardell Lanham ’06, a daughter, Sienna Claire Lanham, July 10, in San Diego, California. ’07 Jaime Boswell Cammack ’07 and…

Horst Richardson coached men’s soccer at Colorado College for 50 years, with his wife Helen serving as the team’s surrogate mother, game-day chef, and documentarian from almost the very beginning. So it is no surprise that in retirement, they hung in there for more than three years to complete “The History of Men’s Soccer at…

’44 Marjory “Marge” Reid Abbott passed away Jan. 4 at age 96. Those who predeceased her include her father, former CC professor W. Lewis Abbott, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth “Betty” Abbott McKeever ’41. ’45 Charlotte Lewis Skiffington started a career as a medical technologist before marrying an Army officer and living on various military…

The Journey Is the Goal By Jack Walker ’62 Walker chronicles his journey from child to man, a journey that started in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during the Great Depression and took him to Colorado, where for the first 10 years of his life he was raised by his maternal grandparents, with stop-offs with foster parents.…

We asked Department Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematics Andrea Bruder What’s on Your Reading List? “‘Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics’ by Talithia Williams features biographies of 30 female mathematicians, spanning 300 years of history. Williams showcases each woman’s accomplishments and tells their stories of overcoming significant obstacles in order to be…

Writer and activist Shaun King drew a full house at Shove Memorial Chapel in February with his talk, “Beyond Dialogue: Tools for Reclaiming Truth.” King challenged notions of upward progress in human moral behavior, highlighting contemporary injustices such as police killings of unarmed black Americans and family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border. King also emphasized…

An event titled “A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates” was just that, as renowned author Coates (above and below right), participated in a discussion facilitated by Michael Sawyer, assistant professor in race, ethnicity, and migration studies and English, and chair of  the Africana Intellectual Project. Coates discussed his experiences in journalism, growing up in Baltimore, and…