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Posts from the Summer 2017 issue

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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Summer’s a Great Time for Student-Faculty Collaborative Research

Numerous students during the summer work with faculty mentors on research in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary fields.

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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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What’s on Your Reading List, Gail Murphy-Geiss?

We asked Professor of Sociology, Gail Murphy-Geiss What’s on Your Reading List? When I’m not reading sociology, I love reading for my European Book Group at the Alliance Française in Denver. Because only 3 percent of the American book market comes from translations of works written elsewhere, we read from that small portion, focusing on…

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