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Posts from the Summer 2017 issue

From The President

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, “Students felt more autonomous in classes where they participated in field trips. They also felt like they had more competence and that they formed a deeper connection with instructors and peers.” This is one of the fascinating findings from the research of Heather Fedesco, our inaugural pedagogy scholar, supported by…

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Club Sports and Fitness Activities Booming at CC

Home to CC’s highly successful intramural and club sports programs, the Adam F. Press Fitness Center sits on the north side of El Pomar Sports Center. Until 2011, the space was simply a grassy hill and long cement ramp down to Washburn Field. A multi-million-dollar renovation to the sports complex changed all that. By May…

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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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